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installed onto.</para>
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<para>Chapter 5 will then discuss the installation of a number of packages that
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-will form the basic development suite (or toolset) which is used to build the
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+will form the basic development suite (or tool-set) which is used to build the
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actual system in Chapter 6. Some of these packages are needed to resolve
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circular dependencies. For example, to compile a compiler you need a
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compiler.</para>
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<para>The third thing to do is build a second pass of the toolchain. This time
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the toolchain will be dynamically linked against the newly built Glibc. The
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remaining Chapter 5 packages are all built using this second pass toolchain and
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-dynamically linked against the new host independent Glibc. When this is done,
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+dynamically linked against the new host-independent Glibc. When this is done,
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the LFS installation process will no longer depend on the host distribution,
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with the exception of the running kernel. This is known as <quote>self
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contained</quote> and <quote>self hosted</quote>. There is a discussion of the
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@@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ the binary programs you just compiled. This has the potential to cause
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problems for you down the road. The host's Glibc is usually an unknown
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quantity and might even contain bugs or anything else we don't know about
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until it is too late. A well known issue is that statically linked binaries
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-compiled on a Glibc-2.2.x based system that contain calls to the getpwuid()
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-function crash when run on a glibc-2.3.x based system. Seeing as we are about
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-to build a Glibc-2.3.x based system, we need to shield ourselves from problems
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-of this nature. The procedure employed in Chapter 5 achieves this goal. With
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-all these things in mind, you can see that the extra effort to compile
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-Binutils and GCC twice is well worth it.</para>
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+compiled on a Glibc-2.2.x based system that contain calls to the <emphasis>
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+getpwuid()</emphasis> function crash when run on a Glibc-2.3.x based system.
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+Seeing as we are about to build a Glibc-2.3.x based system, we need to shield
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+ourselves from problems of this nature. The procedure employed in Chapter 5
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+achieves this goal. With all these things in mind, you can see that the extra
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+effort to compile Binutils and GCC twice is well worth it.</para>
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<para>In Chapter 6 your real LFS system will be built. The chroot (change root)
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program is used to enter a virtual environment and start a new shell whose root
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Greg Schafer