Installation of Sh-utils
Before Sh-utils is installed, the sh-utils patch file may need to
be applied. This patch is needed to avoid a conflict of variable names
with certain Glibc versions (usually glibc-2.1.x) when compiling sh-utils
statically. It is however safe to apply the patch even if you are
running a different glibc version, so if you aren't sure, it's
best to apply it.
Apply the patch by running the following command:
patch -Np1 -i ../sh-utils-&sh-utils-version;.patch
Install Sh-utils by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr --disable-nls &&
make LDFLAGS=-static &&
make install &&
cd $LFS/usr/bin &&
mv basename date echo false hostname $LFS/bin &&
mv pwd sleep stty test true uname $LFS/bin &&
mv chroot ../sbin
During the make install stage you will see the following warning:
WARNING: insufficient access; not installing su
NOTE: to install su, run 'make install-root' as root
You can safely ignore that warning. You need to be logged in as root
in order to install su the way sh-utils wants to install it, that being
suid root. Because we don't need su during chapter 6, and su will be properly
installed when we re-install sh-utils in chapter 6 anyways, you can just
pretend you didn't see it.