[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[9652249] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-coreutils" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="coreutils.html"?>
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[bc82645e] | 9 |
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[673b0d8] | 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-tools-coreutils">
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| 11 | <primary sortas="a-Coreutils">Coreutils</primary>
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| 12 | <secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
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[ab6f1859] | 13 |
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[9652249] | 14 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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| 15 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/coreutils.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
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[5888299] | 16 |
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[9652249] | 17 | <segmentedlist>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 20 | <seglistitem><seg>0.9 SBU</seg><seg>69 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 21 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 22 |
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[9652249] | 23 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/coreutils.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/>
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[73aedd1d] | 24 |
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[9652249] | 25 | </sect2>
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[73aedd1d] | 26 |
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[9652249] | 27 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 28 | <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
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| 29 |
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[673b0d8] | 30 | <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <screen><userinput>DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 ./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 33 |
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[6e41459] | 34 | <para>This package has an issue when compiled against versions of
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| 35 | Glibc later than 2.3.2. Some of the Coreutils utilities (such as
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| 36 | <command>head</command>, <command>tail</command>, and
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| 37 | <command>sort</command>) will reject their traditional syntax, a
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| 38 | syntax that has been in use for approximately 30 years. This old
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| 39 | syntax is so pervasive that compatibility should be preserved until
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| 40 | the many places where it is used can be updated. Backwards
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| 41 | compatibility is achieved by setting the
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| 42 | <emphasis>DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION</emphasis> environment variable to
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| 43 | <quote>199209</quote> in the above command. If you do not want
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| 44 | coreutils to be backwards compatible with the traditional syntax, then
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| 45 | omit setting the <emphasis>DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION</emphasis>
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| 46 | environment variable. It is important to remember that doing so will
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| 47 | have consequences, including the need to patch the many packages that
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| 48 | still use the old syntax. We therefore recommend using the
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| 49 | instructions exactly as given above.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 50 |
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| 51 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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[6e41459] | 55 | <para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make
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| 56 | RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput>. The
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| 57 | <parameter>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</parameter> parameter tells the
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| 58 | test suite to run several additional tests that are considered
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| 59 | relatively expensive (in terms of CPU power and memory usage) on some
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| 60 | platforms, but generally are not a problem on Linux.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 61 |
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[6e41459] | 62 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 63 |
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| 64 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | </sect2>
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[bc82645e] | 67 |
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[9652249] | 68 | <sect2 role="content"><title/>
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[5888299] | 69 | <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
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[0868461] | 70 | </sect2>
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[5888299] | 71 |
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[bc82645e] | 72 | </sect1>
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[6e41459] | 73 |
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