On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:33 PM Akira Urushibata via lfs-dev <lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > Is there any problem with making a new directory at the filesystem > base level? > > In theory there could be a distribution which already has a /tool > directory. But I have never heard of that. > > What alternatives are there to /tool ? If /tool is so abhored, why > not try /usr/local instead ? What happens when you do that? > The /usr/local directory must be empty for this to work and you > shouldn't do anything other than build LFS on this system. But if > you dislike /tool , it should be worth a try. > > > > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
No not at all, I'm actually a fan of the `/tools` symlink on the host file system (as it has become sort of a convention, and it's known by many users), but I was just seeing if providing it can be optional. I understand that `/$dir` and `/home/lfs/$dir` have to exist to get the chroot linker's paths correctly sorted out, but after looking at some other options, I'm lead into thinking that `/tools` might be the best place for this symlink to go to. Some alternatives are: 1- No host symlink, will have to be `/home/lfs/home/lfs/tools` symlink to `/home/lfs/tools` in order to work inside and outside of chroot. Pros: No host symlink Cons: Inconvenient path `/home/lfs/home/lfs/tools 2- `/opt/lfs/tools` host symlink to `/home/lfs/opt/lfs/tools` (will also have to provide /home/lfs/tools -> `/home/lfs/opt/lfs/toolchain` or vice versa because it's what the user expects). Pros: Host symlink conforms to FHS v3.0 Cons: Still a host symlink + inconvenient name `/home/lfs/opt/lfs/tools` (might also be overridden when an opt dir is actually needed inside chroot?) + an additional symlink /home/lfs/tools for where the user expects to find the toolchain. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
