| 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 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
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| 22 | (<command>head</command>, <command>tail</command>, <command>sort</command>,
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| 23 | and others) will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for
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| 24 | approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility
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| 25 | should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be updated.
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| 26 | More details on this are provided in the comments inside the patch itself. Use
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| 27 | of this patch is by no means compulsory, but not using it means you'll have to
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| 28 | deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that use the old
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| 29 | syntax. Therefore, better apply the patch:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue:
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| 42 | <userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput>. The
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| 43 | <emphasis>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</emphasis> parameter tells the test suite to
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| 44 | run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some
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| 45 | platforms but generally are not a problem on Linux.)</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | </sect2>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para>
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| 54 | <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
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| 55 | <para> </para></sect2>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | </sect1>
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| 58 |
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