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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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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-coreutils">
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| 7 | <title>Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="coreutils.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 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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| 13 |
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| 14 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/coreutils.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/para[1])"/>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.9 SBU
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| 17 | &diskspace; 69 MB</screen>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/coreutils.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/para[2])"/>
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| 20 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 ./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>This package has an issue when compiled against versions of glibc
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| 30 | later than 2.3.2. Some of the Coreutils utilities (such as
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| 31 | <command>head</command>, <command>tail</command> and <command>sort</command>)
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| 32 | will reject their traditional syntax, a syntax that has been in use for
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| 33 | approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility
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| 34 | should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be
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| 35 | updated. Backwards compatibility is achieved by setting the
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| 36 | DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable to "199209" in the above
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| 37 | command. If you don't want coreutils to be backwards compatible
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| 38 | with the traditional syntax, then simply omit setting the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION
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| 39 | environment variable. Realise though, that doing so will mean you'll have
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| 40 | to deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that still use
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| 41 | the old syntax. We therefore recommend using the instructions exactly as given
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| 42 | above.</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue:
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| 49 | <userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput>. The
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| 50 | <emphasis>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</emphasis> parameter tells the test suite to
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| 51 | run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some
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| 52 | platforms but generally are not a problem on Linux.)</para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | </sect2>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para>
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| 61 | <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
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| 62 | <para> </para></sect2>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </sect1>
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