Hello all, In trying to make better sense of the principles of LFS, I caught myself in a brain dilemma: Why does one need to assemble the temporary tools that assemble the LFS? Why cannot LFS be built by host's toolchain itself, directly? I understand the need to isolate the variables that may affect the assembly of the final system, and thus setting up a clean shell for the 'lfs' user. But the code? After all, gcc is distributed for a reason - to compile software, and if we have to compile GCC everytime we want it to compile other software, why even keep a built copy of it around? In other words, can the final production GCC (built in chapter 6) be trusted to assemble another LFS, without it first compiling a temporary GCC? Not sure if I made my question across, but I am trying here...
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