Prepare Coreutils to be compiled: ./configure --prefix=/tools Compile the package: make This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so: make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check The meaning of the make option: RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes: This tells the test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on Linux. And install the package: make install