[Clfs-dev] general doubt regarding the clfs book.

[Jon Dufresne]

2008/11/18 Varrun Ashok <varrunashok at yahoo.com>:
> hello everybody,
> I have followed the clfs book version 1.1.0  till chapter IV :building the
> basic tools.
> then I also decided to boot and not to chroot. the procedures till now
> explain the installation many important tools.
> why are we repeating the building and installing all the packages like
> binutils,gcc etc in chapter V again: building the CLFS system?
> when I went through the book I did not find the reason.
> do I have to get in to the new kernel and reinstall all the packages again
> instead of installing them from the host?

I'm curious about this myself.

It seems to me you don't _have_ to build a native toolchain unless you
want a native toolchain. Are the authors suggesting that a native
toolchain is more stable than a cross toolchain?

Regards,
Jon