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     </para>
 
     <para>
+        SDKs are completely self-contained.
+        The binaries are linked against their own copy of
+        <filename>libc</filename>, which results in no dependencies
+        on the target system.
+        To achieve this, the pointer to the dynamic loader is
+        configured at install time since that path cannot be dynamically
+        altered.
+        This is the reason for a wrapper around the
+        <filename>populate_sdk</filename> and
+        <filename>populate_sdk_ext</filename> archives.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+        Another feature for the SDKs is that only one set of cross-canadian
+        toolchain binaries are produced per architecture.
+        This feature takes advantage of the fact that the target hardware can
+        be passed to <filename>gcc</filename> as a set of compiler options.
+        Those options are set up by the environment script and contained in
+        variables such as
+        <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-CC'><filename>CC</filename></ulink>
+        and
+        <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-LD'><filename>LD</filename></ulink>.
+        This reduces the space needed for the tools.
+        Understand, however, that a sysroot is still needed for every target
+        since those binaries are target-specific.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
         Going beyond the actual SDK, the SDK development environment consists
         of the following:
         <itemizedlist>