As described in the title, the $LFS/tools setting could be harmful for the current linux distros. Because there already exists /tools folder in current Debian/Ubuntu distros, and it is not possible to correctly set the symlink between the $LFS/tools and /tools. Even if I brutally delete the /tools folder, and set the symlink, the host system will complain that "Too many levels of symbolic links" for simple commands like tar, and all LFS operations following will not be able to execute.
I wonder this problem is caused by the dead cycle between the /tools and $LFS/tools. So I suggest totally remove this setting or warn user not to set this variable when some host distros default have /tools in their root folder.
Yours sincerely,
Lei Niu
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