| 1 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-coreutils">
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| 2 | <title>Installing Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
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| 3 | <?dbhtml filename="coreutils.html" dir="chapter05"?>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <screen>&buildtime; &coreutils-time-tools;
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| 6 | &diskspace; &coreutils-compsize-tools;</screen>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <literallayout>Official download location for Coreutils (&coreutils-version;):
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| 9 | <ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/"/>
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| 10 | And for the Coreutils Posixver Patch:
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| 11 | <ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-posixver-patch;"/></literallayout>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | &aa-coreutils-dep;
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect2>
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| 18 | <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>Coreutils has an issue when compiled against Glibc-&glibc-version;.
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| 21 | Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities (head, tail, sort etc)
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| 22 | will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for approximately 30
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| 23 | years. The old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility must be preserved until
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| 24 | the many places where it is used can be updated. More details are provided in
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| 25 | the comments inside the patch itself. Use of this patch is by no means
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| 26 | compulsory but opting not to use it means you'll have deal with the consequences
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| 27 | yourself, i.e. patch the many software packages that use the old syntax. Apply
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| 28 | the patch:</para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the
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| 41 | temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Coreutils
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| 42 | test suite anyway, the following command will do so:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <itemizedlist>
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| 49 | <listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: This tells the
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| 50 | test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively
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| 51 | expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on
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| 52 | Linux.</para></listitem>
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| 53 | </itemizedlist>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | </sect2>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para>
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| 62 | <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
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| 63 | <para> </para></sect2>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | </sect1>
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| 66 |
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