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Moving stuff from appendix A to chapter 6.

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1<sect1 id="ch06-ed" xreflabel="Ed">
2<title>Installing Ed-&ed-version;</title>
3<?dbhtml filename="ed.html" dir="chapter06"?>
4
5<para>The Ed package contains a spartan line editor.</para>
6
7<screen>Estimated build time: &ed-time;
8Estimated required disk space: &ed-compsize;</screen>
9
10&aa-ed-down;
11&aa-ed-dep;
12
13<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
14
15<sect2>
16<title>Installation of Ed</title>
17
18<note><para>Ed isn't something which many people use. It's installed here
19because it can be used by the patch program if you encounter an ed-based patch
20file. This happens rarely because diff-based patches are preferred these
21days.</para></note>
22
23<para>Ed normally uses the mktemp function to create temporary files in
24<filename class="directory">/tmp</filename>, but this function contains a
25vulnerability (see the section on Temporary Files in <ulink
26url="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/avoid-race.html"/>). The
27following patch makes Ed use mkstemp instead, which is the recommended way to
28create temporary files.</para>
29
30<para>Apply the patch:</para>
31
32<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ed-patch;</userinput></screen>
33
34<para>Now prepare Ed for compilation:</para>
35
36<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""</userinput></screen>
37
38<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
39
40<itemizedlist>
41<listitem><para><userinput>--exec-prefix=""</userinput>: This forces the
42programs to be installed into the <filename>/bin</filename> directory. Having
43the programs available there is useful in the event of the
44<filename>/usr</filename> partition being unavailable.</para></listitem>
45</itemizedlist>
46
47<para>Compile the package:</para>
48
49<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
50
51<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
52checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
53following command will do so:</para>
54
55<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
56
57<para>Install the package:</para>
58
59<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
60
61</sect2>
62
63&aa-ed-shortdesc;
64&aa-ed-desc;
65
66</sect1>
67
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