II. Preparing for the Build

Table of Contents

• 2. Preparing the Host System

  • Introduction
  • Host System Requirements
  • Building LFS in Stages
  • Creating a New Partition
  • Creating a File System on the Partition
  • Setting The $LFS Variable
  • Mounting the New Partition

• 3. Packages and Patches

  • Introduction
  • All Packages
  • Needed Patches

• 4. Final Preparations

  • Introduction
  • Creating the $LFS/tools Directory
  • Adding the LFS User
  • Setting Up the Environment
  • About SBUs
  • About the Test Suites

• 5. Constructing a Temporary System

  • Introduction
  • Toolchain Technical Notes
  • General Compilation Instructions
  • Binutils-2.29 - Pass 1
  • GCC-7.2.0 - Pass 1
  • Linux-4.12.7 API Headers
  • Glibc-2.26
  • Libstdc++-7.2.0
  • Binutils-2.29 - Pass 2
  • GCC-7.2.0 - Pass 2
  • Tcl-core-8.6.7
  • Expect-5.45
  • DejaGNU-1.6
  • Check-0.11.0
  • Ncurses-6.0
  • Bash-4.4
  • Bison-3.0.4
  • Bzip2-1.0.6
  • Coreutils-8.27
  • Diffutils-3.6
  • File-5.31
  • Findutils-4.6.0
  • Gawk-4.1.4
  • Gettext-0.19.8.1
  • Grep-3.1
  • Gzip-1.8
  • M4-1.4.18
  • Make-4.2.1
  • Patch-2.7.5
  • Perl-5.26.0
  • Sed-4.4
  • Tar-1.29
  • Texinfo-6.4
  • Util-linux-2.30.1
  • Xz-5.2.3
  • Stripping
  • Changing Ownership