source: chapter05/coreutils.xml@ b329b40

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    <productname>coreutils</productname>
    <productnumber>&coreutils-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&coreutils-url;</address>
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  <title>Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-tools-coreutils">
    <primary sortas="a-Coreutils">Coreutils</primary>
    <secondary>tools</secondary>
  </indexterm>

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    <title/>

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    href="../chapter06/coreutils.xml"
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    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&coreutils-ch5-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&coreutils-ch5-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>

    <para>There's an internal issue with Coreutils which makes some of the
    programs behave abnormally if you build using an older kernel. Apply a
    patch to fix the issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-old-kernel-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools --enable-install-program=hostname</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><envar>--enable-install-program=hostname</envar></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This enables the <command>hostname</command> binary to be built
          and installed &ndash; it is disabled by default but is required by the
          Perl test suite.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>

    <para>The <parameter>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</parameter> parameter tells the
    test suite to run several additional tests that are considered
    relatively expensive (in terms of CPU power and memory usage) on some
    platforms, but generally are not a problem on Linux.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>The above command refuses to install <filename>su</filename>
    because it cannot install it setuid root as a non-privileged user. By
    manually installing it with a different name, we can use it for running
    tests in the final system as a non-privileged user and we keep a possibly
    useful <command>su</command> from our host first place in our PATH. Install
    it with:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v src/su /tools/bin/su-tools</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in
    <xref linkend="contents-coreutils" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

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