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[d1ebcc8] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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[b330f4a] | 7 |
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[725ef3b] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-hostreqs" xreflabel="Host System Requirements">
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[b330f4a] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Host System Requirements</title>
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| 12 |
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[fd8b059] | 13 | <para>Your host system should have the following software with the
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| 14 | minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
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| 15 | modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
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| 16 | place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
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| 17 | <quote><package-name>-devel</quote> or
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| 18 | <quote><package-name>-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
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[5e858e7] | 19 | your distribution provides them.</para>
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[d12ae76] | 20 |
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[72fb9bf] | 21 | <para>Earlier versions of the listed software packages may work, but have
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| 22 | not been tested.</para>
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[7088c96] | 23 |
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[bf5724b] | 24 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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[fd8b059] | 25 |
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[d12ae76] | 26 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 27 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-3.2</emphasis> (/bin/sh
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[e4ab232] | 28 | should be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 29 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 30 |
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[d12ae76] | 31 | <listitem>
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[d6006ef] | 32 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.13.1</emphasis> (Versions
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[fd8b059] | 33 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
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| 34 | not been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 35 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 36 |
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[07dfccb] | 37 | <listitem>
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[b55310e] | 38 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-2.7</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc
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[17a807a] | 39 | should be a link to bison or a small script that executes bison)</para>
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[07dfccb] | 40 | </listitem>
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| 41 |
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[d12ae76] | 42 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 43 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-6.9</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 44 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 45 |
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[d12ae76] | 46 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 47 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8.1</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 48 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 49 |
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[d12ae76] | 50 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 51 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.2.31</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 52 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 53 |
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[d12ae76] | 54 | <listitem>
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[3fbc395] | 55 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-4.0.1</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk
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[e4ab232] | 56 | should be a link to gawk)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 57 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 58 |
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[d12ae76] | 59 | <listitem>
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[d6006ef] | 60 | <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.8</emphasis> including the C++
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[142b29b] | 61 | compiler, <command>g++</command> (Versions greater than &gcc-version; are
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[d6006ef] | 62 | not recommended as they have not been tested). C and C++ standard
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| 63 | libraries (with headers) must also be present so the C++ compiler can
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| 64 | build hosted programs</para>
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[d12ae76] | 65 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 66 |
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[d12ae76] | 67 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 68 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5.1a</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 69 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 70 |
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[d12ae76] | 71 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 72 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.3.12</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 73 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 74 |
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[d12ae76] | 75 | <listitem>
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[a93258d] | 76 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-&min-kernel;</emphasis></para>
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[fd8b059] | 77 |
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[9ee226e] | 78 | <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that we specify
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[33ca65c] | 79 | that version when building <application>glibc</application> in
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| 80 | <xref linkend="chapter-cross-tools"/> and
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| 81 | <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>,
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[13e7d79] | 82 | at the recommendation of the developers. It is also required by
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| 83 | udev.</para>
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[7088c96] | 84 |
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[a93258d] | 85 | <para>If the host kernel is earlier than &min-kernel; you will need to replace
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[86f3868] | 86 | the kernel with a more up-to-date version. There are two ways
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[a93258d] | 87 | you can go about this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a &min-kernel;
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[9ee226e] | 88 | or later kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your
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| 89 | vendor doesn't offer an acceptable kernel package, or you would prefer not to
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| 90 | install it, you can compile a kernel yourself. Instructions for
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| 91 | compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host
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| 92 | uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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[56ca3a5f] | 93 |
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[d12ae76] | 94 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 95 |
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[787fe0c] | 96 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 97 | <para><emphasis role="strong">M4-1.4.10</emphasis></para>
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[787fe0c] | 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 |
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[d12ae76] | 100 | <listitem>
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[76db8d6] | 101 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-4.0</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 102 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 103 |
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[d12ae76] | 104 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 105 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 106 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 107 |
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[9692a57] | 108 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 109 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Perl-5.8.8</emphasis></para>
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[9692a57] | 110 | </listitem>
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| 111 |
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[a271796] | 112 | <listitem>
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| 113 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Python-3.4</emphasis></para>
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| 114 | </listitem>
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| 115 |
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[d12ae76] | 116 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 117 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.1.5</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 118 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 119 |
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[d12ae76] | 120 | <listitem>
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[7380c3aa] | 121 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.22</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 122 | </listitem>
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| 123 |
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[4df39e5] | 124 | <listitem>
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| 125 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.7</emphasis></para>
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| 126 | </listitem>
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| 127 |
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[8e771c5] | 128 | <listitem>
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[44f6add] | 129 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Xz-5.0.0</emphasis></para>
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[8e771c5] | 130 | </listitem>
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| 131 |
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[d12ae76] | 132 | </itemizedlist>
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| 133 |
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[72fb9bf] | 134 | <important>
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| 135 | <para>Note that the symlinks mentioned above are required to build an LFS
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| 136 | system using the instructions contained within this book. Symlinks that
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| 137 | point to other software (such as dash, mawk, etc.) may work, but are not
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| 138 | tested or supported by the LFS development team, and may require either
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| 139 | deviation from the instructions or additional patches to some
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| 140 | packages.</para>
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| 141 | </important>
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[e4ab232] | 142 |
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[d659bf4] | 143 | <!-- Use an empty sect2 element to prevent a pdf warning. -->
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[a04b192f] | 144 | <bridgehead renderas="sect2"
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| 145 | id="version-check"
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[72fb9bf] | 146 | xreflabel="Host System Requirements">
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| 147 | </bridgehead>
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| 148 | <!--<title> </title>-->
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[d659bf4] | 149 |
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| 150 | <para >To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, and
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[86f3868] | 151 | the ability to compile programs, run the following commands:</para>
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[5e858e7] | 152 |
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[b179883] | 153 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
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[5e858e7] | 154 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
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[2914ab8c] | 155 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
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[5dcff99] | 156 | export LC_ALL=C
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[5e858e7] | 157 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
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[7c4d11a] | 158 | MYSH=$(readlink -f /bin/sh)
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| 159 | echo "/bin/sh -> $MYSH"
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[5768244] | 160 | echo $MYSH | grep -q bash || echo "ERROR: /bin/sh does not point to bash"
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[7c4d11a] | 161 | unset MYSH
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| 162 |
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[727a610] | 163 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
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[172a92e] | 164 | bison --version | head -n1
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[a02b8ef] | 165 |
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| 166 | if [ -h /usr/bin/yacc ]; then
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| 167 | echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`";
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| 168 | elif [ -x /usr/bin/yacc ]; then
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| 169 | echo yacc is `/usr/bin/yacc --version | head -n1`
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| 170 | else
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[a04b192f] | 171 | echo "yacc not found"
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[a02b8ef] | 172 | fi
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[54d3ed5] | 173 |
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[baaa5c3] | 174 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
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[5e858e7] | 175 | diff --version | head -n1
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| 176 | find --version | head -n1
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| 177 | gawk --version | head -n1
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[a02b8ef] | 178 |
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| 179 | if [ -h /usr/bin/awk ]; then
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| 180 | echo "/usr/bin/awk -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/awk`";
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| 181 | elif [ -x /usr/bin/awk ]; then
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[09c83f9] | 182 | echo awk is `/usr/bin/awk --version | head -n1`
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[a04b192f] | 183 | else
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| 184 | echo "awk not found"
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[a02b8ef] | 185 | fi
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[54d3ed5] | 186 |
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[2e8cbe0] | 187 | gcc --version | head -n1
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| 188 | g++ --version | head -n1
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| 189 | grep --version | head -n1
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| 190 | gzip --version | head -n1
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[a3b689f] | 191 | cat /proc/version
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[2e8cbe0] | 192 | m4 --version | head -n1
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| 193 | make --version | head -n1
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| 194 | patch --version | head -n1
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[3ccd4fe] | 195 | echo Perl `perl -V:version`
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[a271796] | 196 | python3 --version
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[2e8cbe0] | 197 | sed --version | head -n1
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| 198 | tar --version | head -n1
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[a271796] | 199 | makeinfo --version | head -n1 # texinfo version
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[2e8cbe0] | 200 | xz --version | head -n1
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[e454a54] | 201 |
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[3d56263] | 202 | echo 'int main(){}' > dummy.c && g++ -o dummy dummy.c
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[2ca8941] | 203 | if [ -x dummy ]
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[4fedd8d] | 204 | then echo "g++ compilation OK";
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| 205 | else echo "g++ compilation failed"; fi
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[3d2cea9] | 206 | rm -f dummy.c dummy</literal>
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| 207 | EOF
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| 208 |
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| 209 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
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[d76a82b2] | 210 | <!--
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[3d2cea9] | 211 | <para>Also check for some library consistency:</para>
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[a09a914] | 212 |
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[3d2cea9] | 213 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > library-check.sh << "EOF"
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| 214 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
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[a09a914] | 215 | for lib in lib{gmp,mpfr,mpc}.la; do
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| 216 | echo $lib: $(if find /usr/lib* -name $lib|
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| 217 | grep -q $lib;then :;else echo not;fi) found
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| 218 | done
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| 219 | unset lib</literal>
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[5e858e7] | 220 | EOF
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| 221 |
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[3d2cea9] | 222 | bash library-check.sh</userinput></screen>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <para>The files identified by this script should be all present
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| 225 | or all absent, but not only one or two present.</para>
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[d76a82b2] | 226 | -->
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[3d2cea9] | 227 |
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[d82ab5d] | 228 | <para arch="ml_32,ml_x32,ml_all">
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| 229 | Building multilib support requires the kernel of the host system
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| 230 | to have 32-bit emulation support included.
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| 231 | </para>
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| 232 | <screen arch="ml_32,ml_x32,ml_all">Binary Emulations --->
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| 233 | [*] IA32 Emulation
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| 234 | <M> IA32 a.out support
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| 235 | [*] x32 ABI for 64-bit mode
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| 236 | </screen>
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[6dfcfecc] | 237 |
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[d82ab5d] | 238 | <para arch="ml_32,ml_x32,ml_all">The option 'IA32 a.out support' is
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| 239 | optional. In case your kernel does not have 'x32 ABI for 64-bit mode'
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| 240 | enabled but only 'IA32 Emulation', you can continue to build your
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| 241 | system but you have to leave out any sections showing instructions
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| 242 | for building x32 objects. If neither 'IA32 Emulation' nor
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| 243 | 'x32 ABI for 64-bit mode' is enabled, you will run in errors
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| 244 | latest when building <application>glibc</application> in Chapter 6,
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[6dfcfecc] | 245 | so an upgrade of your host system kernel is required.
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[d82ab5d] | 246 | </para>
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| 247 |
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[d1ebcc8] | 248 | </sect1>
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