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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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3<sect2>
4<title>Installing Findutils</title>
5
6<para>A patch must be applied in order to prevent compilation
7errors. The patch fixes a variable conflict and some bad syntax:</para>
8
9<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
10
11<para>The <userinput>locate</userinput> program from Findutils may
12segfault if it encounters a long path name. To correct this, apply
13the second patch:</para>
14
15<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-segfault-patch-version;-segfault.patch</userinput></screen></para>
16
17<para>Prepare Findutils to be compiled:</para>
18
19<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
20
21<para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var.
22To make the location of <filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> file
23FHS compliant, pass the <emphasis>localstatedir=/var/lib/misc</emphasis>
24option to both <userinput>make</userinput> commands below.</para>
25
26<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
27
28<para><screen><userinput>make libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
29
30<para>Finish installing the package:</para>
31
32<para><screen><userinput>make libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>
33
34</sect2>
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