| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455 | <sect1 id="ch05-introduction"><title>Introduction</title><para>In the following chapters we will install all the software that belongs to a basic Linux system. After you're done with this chapter you have a fully working Linux system. The remaining chapters deal with setting up networking, creating the boot scripts and adding an entry to lilo.conf so that you can boot your LFS system.</para><para>The software in this chapter will be linked statically. These programswill be re-installed in the next chapter and linked dynamically. Thereason for the static version first is that there is a chance that ournormal Linux system and your LFS system aren't using the same CLibrary versions. If the programs in the first part are linked againstan older C library version, those programs might not work well on theLFS system.</para><para>The key to learn what makes Linux tick is to know exactly what packagesare used for and why you or the system needs them. Descriptionsof the package content are provided after the Installation subsection of eachpackage and in Appendix A as well.</para><para>We're about to start with installing the first set of packages. Thesepackages will be, as previously explained, linked statically.</para><para>During the installation of various packages you will most likely seecompiler warnings scrolling by on your screen. These are normal and canbe safely ignored. They are just that, warnings (mostly about improperuse of the C or C++ syntax, but not illegal use. It's just that often Cstandards changed and packages still use the old standard which is not aproblem).</para><para>Before we start, make sure you have the LFS environment variable setup if you plan on using it, by running the following command:</para><blockquote><literallayout>	<userinput>echo $LFS</userinput></literallayout></blockquote></sect1>
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