All programs compiled in Chapter 5
will be installed under $LFS/tools
to
keep them separate from the programs compiled in Chapter 6.
The programs compiled here are temporary 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 Chapter 5).
Create the required directory by running the following as
root
:
mkdir -v $LFS/tools
The next step is to create a /tools
symlink on the host system. This will point to the newly-created
directory on the LFS partition. Run this command as root
as well:
ln -sv $LFS/tools /
The above command is correct. The ln command has a few syntactic
variations, so be sure to check info
coreutils ln and ln(1)
before reporting what you may think is an
error.
The created symlink enables the toolchain to be compiled so that it
always refers to /tools
, meaning that
the compiler, assembler, and linker will work both in Chapter 5
(when we are still using some tools from the host) and in the next
(when we are “chrooted” to the LFS partition).