Author: manuel Date: 2005-06-03 11:54:16 -0600 (Fri, 03 Jun 2005) New Revision: 5627
Modified: branches/cross-lfs/BOOK/final-preps/creatingcrossdir.xml Log: Indented final-preps/creatingcrossdir.xml Modified: branches/cross-lfs/BOOK/final-preps/creatingcrossdir.xml =================================================================== --- branches/cross-lfs/BOOK/final-preps/creatingcrossdir.xml 2005-06-03 17:48:42 UTC (rev 5626) +++ branches/cross-lfs/BOOK/final-preps/creatingcrossdir.xml 2005-06-03 17:54:16 UTC (rev 5627) @@ -1,32 +1,36 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"; [ +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" + "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"; [ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> + <sect1 id="ch-final-preps-creatingcrossdir"> -<title>Creating the $HOME/cross-tools Directory</title> -<?dbhtml filename="creatingcrossdir.html"?> + <?dbhtml filename="creatingcrossdir.html"?> -<para>All programs compiled in <xref -linkend="chapter-cross-tools"/> will be installed under <filename -class="directory">$HOME/cross-tools</filename> to keep them separate from the -programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>. The -programs compiled here are cross tools and will not be a part of -the final LFS system. By keeping these programs in a separate -directory, they can easily be discarded later after their use. This -also prevents these programs from ending up in the host production -directories (easy to do by accident in <xref -linkend="chapter-cross-tools"/>).</para> + <title>Creating the $HOME/cross-tools Directory</title> -<para>Create the required directory by running the following as -<emphasis>lfs</emphasis>:</para> + <para>All programs compiled in <xref linkend="chapter-cross-tools"/> will + be installed under <filename class="directory">$HOME/cross-tools</filename> + to keep them separate from the programs compiled in <xref + linkend="chapter-building-system"/>. The programs compiled here are cross + tools and will not be a part of the final LFS system. By keeping these + programs in a separate directory, they can easily be discarded later after + their use. This also prevents these programs from ending up in the host + production directories (easy to do by accident in <xref + linkend="chapter-cross-tools"/>).</para> + <para>Create the required directory by running the following as + <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>:</para> + <screen><userinput>install -d $HOME/cross-tools</userinput></screen> -<para>The next step is to create a <filename class="symlink">/cross-tools</filename> -symlink on the host system. This will point to the newly-created directory in -your home directory. Since normal users will not have permissions to write -to the root tree, we need to exit the su and run the symlink command as <emphasis>root</emphasis>:</para> + <para>The next step is to create a <filename + class="symlink">/cross-tools</filename> symlink on the host system. + This will point to the newly-created directory in your home directory. + Since normal users will not have permissions to write to the root tree, + we need to exit the su and run the symlink command as + <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para> <screen><userinput>exit LFSHOME=`su - lfs -c 'echo $HOME'` @@ -34,16 +38,16 @@ unset LFSHOME su - lfs</userinput></screen> -<note><para>The above command is correct. The <command>ln</command> -command has a few syntactic variations, so be sure to check the info -and man pages before reporting what you may think is an -error.</para></note> + <note> + <para>The above command is correct. The <command>ln</command> command + has a few syntactic variations, so be sure to check the info and man + pages before reporting what you may think is an error.</para> + </note> -<para>The created symlink enables the toolchain to be compiled so that -it always refers to <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>, -meaning that the compiler, assembler, and linker will work both in -this chapter and this host architecture and in the next (when we are -<quote>chrooted</quote> to the LFS partition).</para> + <para>The created symlink enables the toolchain to be compiled so that + it always refers to <filename class="directory">/cross-tools</filename>, + meaning that the compiler, assembler, and linker will work both in + this chapter and this host architecture and in the next (when we are + <quote>chrooted</quote> to the LFS partition).</para> </sect1> - -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
