diff --git a/mk.sh b/mk.sh
index 5946721..09e70a0 100755
--- a/mk.sh
+++ b/mk.sh
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ REPODIR="$BUILDROOT/repo"
 DEPENDSLIST="$BUILDROOT/depends"
 PROVIDESLIST="$BUILDROOT/provides"
 PREFERESLIST="$BUILDROOT/preferes"
+SYSROOT="$BUILDROOT/sysroot"
 
 declare -A PREFERED_PROVIDER
 
-mkdir -p "$PKGDOWNLOADDIR" "$PKGSRCDIR" "$PKGLOGDIR"
-mkdir -p "$REPODIR"
+mkdir -p "$PKGDOWNLOADDIR" "$PKGSRCDIR" "$PKGLOGDIR" "$REPODIR" "$SYSROOT"
 
 pushd "$SCRIPTDIR" > /dev/null
 OS_NAME="Pygos"
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ cat "$PACKAGELIST"
 
 echo "--- building packages ---"
 
-export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="$TCDIR/$TARGET"
-export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib/pkgconfig"
-export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib/pkgconfig"
+export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR="$SYSROOT"
+export PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="$SYSROOT/lib/pkgconfig"
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$SYSROOT/lib/pkgconfig"
 
 while read pkg; do
 	include_pkg "$pkg"
diff --git a/pkg/bbstatic/build b/pkg/bbstatic/build
index 3c11b73..5575539 100755
--- a/pkg/bbstatic/build
+++ b/pkg/bbstatic/build
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ prepare() {
 }
 
 build() {
-	local SYSROOT="$TCDIR/$TARGET"
-
 	cp "$SCRIPTDIR/pkg/$PKGNAME/bbstatic.config" "$PKGBUILDDIR/.config"
 
 	export KBUILD_OUTPUT="$PKGBUILDDIR"
diff --git a/pkg/initrd/build b/pkg/initrd/build
index a153175..2ce48db 100755
--- a/pkg/initrd/build
+++ b/pkg/initrd/build
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ build() {
 deploy() {
 	cp $SCRIPTDIR/pkg/initrd/*.{desc,files} "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
 
-	pkg install -R "$REPODIR" -r "$TCDIR/$TARGET" -l pkg $DEPENDS \
+	pkg install -R "$REPODIR" -r "$SYSROOT" -l pkg $DEPENDS \
 	    >> "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/initrd.files"
 
 	echo "file init 0755 0 0 $SCRIPTDIR/pkg/$PKGNAME/initrd.skel" \
diff --git a/pkg/iproute2/build b/pkg/iproute2/build
index 99d481f..b0b33c1 100755
--- a/pkg/iproute2/build
+++ b/pkg/iproute2/build
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ build() {
 	make CCOPTS="-O2 $cflags" LDFLAGS="$ldflags" \
 	     HOSTCC="gcc" AR="${TARGET}-ar" LD="${TARGET}-ld" \
 	     CC="${TARGET}-gcc" PREFIX="" SBINDIR="/bin" \
-	     KERNEL_INCLUDE="$TCDIR/$TARGET/include" \
-	     DBM_INCLUDE="$TCDIR/$TARGET/include"
+	     KERNEL_INCLUDE="$SYSROOT/include" \
+	     DBM_INCLUDE="$SYSROOT/include"
 }
 
 deploy() {
 	make DESTDIR="$PKGDEPLOYDIR" PREFIX="" SBINDIR="/bin" \
-	     KERNEL_INCLUDE="$TCDIR/$TARGET/include" \
-	     DBM_INCLUDE="$TCDIR/$TARGET/include" install
+	     KERNEL_INCLUDE="$SYSROOT/include" \
+	     DBM_INCLUDE="$SYSROOT/include" install
 	cp $SCRIPTDIR/pkg/$PKGNAME/*.{files,desc} "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/ldns/build b/pkg/ldns/build
index 6f41396..740f536 100755
--- a/pkg/ldns/build
+++ b/pkg/ldns/build
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ prepare() {
 
 build() {
 	run_configure "$1" --with-drill --without-pyldns --without-pyldnsx \
-		     --without-p5-dns-ldns --with-ssl="$TCDIR/$TARGET"
+		     --without-p5-dns-ldns --with-ssl="$SYSROOT"
 
 	make -j $NUMJOBS
 }
diff --git a/pkg/libpcap/build b/pkg/libpcap/build
index 986f2be..2d69ae3 100755
--- a/pkg/libpcap/build
+++ b/pkg/libpcap/build
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ prepare() {
 
 build() {
 	cp -r ${1}/* ${PKGBUILDDIR}
-	sed -i "s#/usr/include/libnl3#$TCDIR/$TARGET/include/libnl3#g" configure
+	sed -i "s#/usr/include/libnl3#$SYSROOT/include/libnl3#g" configure
 
 	run_configure "." --with-pcap=linux --enable-ipv6
 	make -j $NUMJOBS
diff --git a/pkg/ntp/build b/pkg/ntp/build
index 8f9cd51..ac4f13e 100644
--- a/pkg/ntp/build
+++ b/pkg/ntp/build
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ prepare() {
 
 build() {
 	CFLAGS=-fno-stack-protector \
-	run_configure "$1" --with-openssl-libdir="$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib" \
-		      --with-openssl-incdir="$TCDIR/$TARGET/include" \
+	run_configure "$1" --with-openssl-libdir="$SYSROOT/lib" \
+		      --with-openssl-incdir="$SYSROOT/include" \
 		      --with-yielding-select=yes --enable-ipv6 \
 		      --with-lineeditlibs=readline --without-rpath \
 		      --without-sntp --with-ntpsnmpd
diff --git a/pkg/release-alix/build b/pkg/release-alix/build
index 46d4ca9..30a8a89 100755
--- a/pkg/release-alix/build
+++ b/pkg/release-alix/build
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SUBPKG="release"
 build() {
 	pkg install -om -r "$PKGBUILDDIR/$OS_RELEASE" linux
 
-	pkg dump -l pkg -r "$TCDIR/$TARGET" "$REPODIR/rootfs.pkg" \
+	pkg dump -l pkg -r "$SYSROOT" "$REPODIR/rootfs.pkg" \
 	    > "$PKGBUILDDIR/files.txt"
 
 	gensquashfs -F "$PKGBUILDDIR/files.txt" "$OS_RELEASE/rootfs.img"
diff --git a/pkg/release-qemu/build b/pkg/release-qemu/build
index 6e947eb..ef776f9 100755
--- a/pkg/release-qemu/build
+++ b/pkg/release-qemu/build
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SUBPKG="release"
 build() {
 	pkg install -om -r "$PKGBUILDDIR/$OS_RELEASE" linux
 
-	pkg dump -l pkg -r "$TCDIR/$TARGET" "$REPODIR/rootfs.pkg" \
+	pkg dump -l pkg -r "$SYSROOT" "$REPODIR/rootfs.pkg" \
 	    > "$PKGBUILDDIR/files.txt"
 
 	gensquashfs -F "$PKGBUILDDIR/files.txt" "$OS_RELEASE/rootfs.img"
diff --git a/pkg/release-rpi3/build b/pkg/release-rpi3/build
index d3c8277..e442dd0 100755
--- a/pkg/release-rpi3/build
+++ b/pkg/release-rpi3/build
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build() {
 	pkg install -om -r "$PKGBUILDDIR/boot" \
 	    boot-rpi boot-rpi-dtbo boot-rpi-dtb linux
 
-	pkg dump -l pkg -r "$TCDIR/$TARGET" "$REPODIR/rootfs.pkg" \
+	pkg dump -l pkg -r "$SYSROOT" "$REPODIR/rootfs.pkg" \
 	    > "$PKGBUILDDIR/files.txt"
 
 	gensquashfs -F "$PKGBUILDDIR/files.txt" "boot/rootfs.img"
diff --git a/pkg/rootfs/build b/pkg/rootfs/build
index 7ffefd5..1ceca7a 100755
--- a/pkg/rootfs/build
+++ b/pkg/rootfs/build
@@ -5,16 +5,16 @@ build() {
 	local desc="$PKGDEPLOYDIR/$PKGNAME.desc"
 
 	# generate package description and file listing
-	pkg install -l pkg -r "$TCDIR/$TARGET" $DEPENDS | sort -u > "$listing"
+	pkg install -l pkg -r "$SYSROOT" $DEPENDS | sort -u > "$listing"
 	touch "$desc"
 
 	# move configuration to preserve directory
-	mkdir -pv "$TCDIR/$TARGET/cfg/preserve" "$TCDIR/$TARGET/cfg/overlay"
+	mkdir -pv "$SYSROOT/cfg/preserve" "$SYSROOT/cfg/overlay"
 
-	mv "$TCDIR/$TARGET/etc" "$TCDIR/$TARGET/cfg/preserve/etc"
-	mv "$TCDIR/$TARGET/usr" "$TCDIR/$TARGET/cfg/preserve/usr"
-	mv "$TCDIR/$TARGET/var/lib" "$TCDIR/$TARGET/cfg/preserve/var_lib"
-	rm -rf "$TCDIR/$TARGET/var"
+	mv "$SYSROOT/etc" "$SYSROOT/cfg/preserve/etc"
+	mv "$SYSROOT/usr" "$SYSROOT/cfg/preserve/usr"
+	mv "$SYSROOT/var/lib" "$SYSROOT/cfg/preserve/var_lib"
+	rm -rf "$SYSROOT/var"
 
 	sed -i 's#etc/#cfg/preserve/etc/#g' "$listing"
 	sed -i 's#var/lib/#cfg/preserve/var_lib/#g' "$listing"
diff --git a/pkg/tc-binutils/build b/pkg/tc-binutils/build
index d2fedf0..28dec92 100755
--- a/pkg/tc-binutils/build
+++ b/pkg/tc-binutils/build
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ build() {
 	local extra="$BINUTILS_EXTRACFG"
 
 	$1/configure --prefix="$TCDIR" --target="$TARGET" --disable-nls \
-		     --with-sysroot="$TCDIR/$TARGET" --disable-multilib \
+		     --with-sysroot="$SYSROOT" --disable-multilib \
 		     --enable-shared --enable-plugins --enable-relro \
 		     --with-pic --enable-deterministic-archives \
-		     --with-lib-path="$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib" $extra
+		     --with-lib-path="$SYSROOT/lib" $extra
 
 	make configure-host
 	make -j $NUMJOBS
@@ -24,28 +24,7 @@ build() {
 
 deploy() {
 	make install
-
-	cat > "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/$PKGNAME.files" <<_EOF
-dir bin 0755 0 0
-dir lib 0755 0 0
-dir lib/ldscripts 0755 0 0
-file bin/ar 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/ar
-file bin/as 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/as
-file bin/ld 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/ld
-file bin/ld.bfd 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/ld.bfd
-file bin/nm 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/nm
-file bin/objcopy 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/objcopy
-file bin/objdump 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/objdump
-file bin/ranlib 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/ranlib
-file bin/readelf 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/readelf
-file bin/strip 0755 0 0 $TCDIR/$TARGET/bin/strip
-_EOF
-
-	find -H "$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib/ldscripts" -type f \
-	     -printf "file lib/ldscripts/%f 0%m 0 0 %p\\n" \
-	     >> "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/$PKGNAME.files"
-
-	touch "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/$PKGNAME.desc"
+	touch "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/$PKGNAME.desc" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/$PKGNAME.files"
 }
 
 check_update() {
diff --git a/pkg/tc-gcc1/build b/pkg/tc-gcc1/build
index 81f3696..1aeff5a 100755
--- a/pkg/tc-gcc1/build
+++ b/pkg/tc-gcc1/build
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ build() {
 
 	$1/configure --prefix="$TCDIR" --target="$TARGET" \
 		     --build="$HOSTTUPLE" --host="$HOSTTUPLE" \
-		     --with-sysroot="$TCDIR/$TARGET" \
+		     --with-sysroot="$SYSROOT" \
 		     --disable-nls --disable-shared --without-headers \
 		     --disable-multilib --disable-decimal-float \
 		     --disable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap \
diff --git a/pkg/tc-gcc2/build b/pkg/tc-gcc2/build
index 5e6eb41..9f6d6c5 100755
--- a/pkg/tc-gcc2/build
+++ b/pkg/tc-gcc2/build
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ build() {
 
 	$1/configure --prefix="$TCDIR" --target="$TARGET" \
 		     --build="$HOSTTUPLE" --host="$HOSTTUPLE" \
-		     --with-sysroot="$TCDIR/$TARGET" \
+		     --with-sysroot="$SYSROOT" \
 		     --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++ \
 		     --enable-c99 --enable-long-long \
 		     --enable-libmudflap --disable-multilib \
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ deploy() {
 	make install
 
 	mkdir -p "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/lib"
-	mv ${TCDIR}/${TARGET}/{include,lib} "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
-	cp $SCRIPTDIR/pkg/$PKGNAME/*.{files,desc} "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
+	mv "$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
+	mkdir -p "$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib"
+	mv "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/lib/ldscripts" "$TCDIR/$TARGET/lib"
 
-	pkg_scan_dir "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/include/c++" |\
-		sed "s#$PKGDEPLOYDIR/##g" >> "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/libstdc++-dev.files"
+	cp $SCRIPTDIR/pkg/$PKGNAME/*.{files,desc} "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
 
 	if [ -f "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/lib/libmpx.a" ]; then
 		cat >> "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/libgcc-dev.files" <<_EOF
diff --git a/pkg/tc-pkgtool/build b/pkg/tc-pkgtool/build
index fbbcc89..822abb6 100755
--- a/pkg/tc-pkgtool/build
+++ b/pkg/tc-pkgtool/build
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ build() {
 	$1/configure --prefix="$TCDIR" --disable-static \
 		     --build="$HOSTTUPLE" --host="$HOSTTUPLE" \
 		     --with-repo-dir="$REPODIR" \
-		     --with-install-root="$TCDIR/$TARGET"
+		     --with-install-root="$SYSROOT"
 
 	make -j $NUMJOBS
 }
diff --git a/pkg/tcpdump/build b/pkg/tcpdump/build
index 62ce6b5..b7020a5 100755
--- a/pkg/tcpdump/build
+++ b/pkg/tcpdump/build
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ prepare() {
 
 build() {
 	run_configure "$1" --with-system-libpcap --with-cap-ng \
-		      --with-crypto="$TCDIR/$TARGET"
+		      --with-crypto="$SYSROOT"
 
 	make -j $NUMJOBS
 }
diff --git a/pkg/toolchain/build b/pkg/toolchain/build
index 50749a9..0980b39 100755
--- a/pkg/toolchain/build
+++ b/pkg/toolchain/build
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ deploy() {
 cat > "$CMAKETCFILE" << _EOF
 set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Linux)
 
-set(CMAKE_SYSROOT ${TCDIR}/${TARGET})
+set(CMAKE_SYSROOT ${SYSROOT})
 
 set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER ${TCDIR}/bin/${TARGET}-gcc)
 set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_TARGET ${TARGET})
diff --git a/pkg/unbound/build b/pkg/unbound/build
index ca994c7..63d3a81 100644
--- a/pkg/unbound/build
+++ b/pkg/unbound/build
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ prepare() {
 
 build() {
 	run_configure "$1" --with-pidfile=/run/unbound.pid \
-		     --with-libexpat="$TCDIR/$TARGET" \
-		     --with-ssl="$TCDIR/$TARGET"
+		     --with-libexpat="$SYSROOT" --with-ssl="$SYSROOT"
 
 	make -j $NUMJOBS
 }
diff --git a/util/build_package.sh b/util/build_package.sh
index 5b6f798..f0f8127 100644
--- a/util/build_package.sh
+++ b/util/build_package.sh
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ build_package() {
 
 	fetch_package
 
-	rm -rf "$TCDIR/$TARGET" "$PKGBUILDDIR" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
-	mkdir -p "$TCDIR/$TARGET" "$PKGBUILDDIR" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
+	rm -rf "$SYSROOT" "$PKGBUILDDIR" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
+	mkdir -p "$SYSROOT" "$PKGBUILDDIR" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
 
 	if [ ! -z "$DEPENDS" ]; then
 		pkg install -omD $DEPENDS
@@ -35,5 +35,5 @@ build_package() {
 			 -l "$PKGDEPLOYDIR/${f}.files"
 	done
 
-	rm -rf "$TCDIR/$TARGET" "$PKGBUILDDIR" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
+	rm -rf "$SYSROOT" "$PKGBUILDDIR" "$PKGDEPLOYDIR"
 }