| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <sect2>
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| 4 | <title>Installing Findutils</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <para>The Findutils package is quite old and it has problems compiling
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| 7 | against newer Glibc versions (Glibc-2.0.x and up). You need to apply the
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| 8 | patch, which fixes the following issues:</para>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <itemizedlist>
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| 11 | <listitem><para>Findutils declares a function called basename, but this
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| 12 | function name is already used by the C standard libraries. This patch
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| 13 | changes the Findutils version of basename function so that it is called
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| 14 | basename2 instead.</para></listitem>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <listitem><para>Findutils uses library files in an incorrect way. It
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| 17 | declares library functions, to tell the compiler what the name of the
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| 18 | function will be when the libraries are linked in. This syntax is invalid
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| 19 | and causes compiler warnings/errors. This patch removes this improper
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| 20 | syntax.</para></listitem>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <listitem><para>Every GNU package is supposed use a macro called _GNU_SOURCE.
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| 23 | This macro enables declarations of GNU library extension functions and so the
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| 24 | compiler will be able to detect name conflicts between functions more easily.
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| 25 | This patch adds this macro to the source code.</para></listitem>
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| 26 | </itemizedlist>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>There is a bug in locate.c of Findutils that causes a segmentation
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| 31 | fault to occur on very long path names. The problem is caused by the
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| 32 | get_short() function calculating negative numbers incorrectly. This patch
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| 33 | corrects this bug.</para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-segfault-patch-version;-segfault.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>Prepare Findutils to be compiled:</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var.
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| 42 | To make the location of <filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> file
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| 43 | FHS compliant, pass the <emphasis>localstatedir=/var/lib/misc</emphasis>
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| 44 | option to both <userinput>make</userinput> commands below.</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para><screen><userinput>make libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <para>Finish installing the package:</para>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <para><screen><userinput>make libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | </sect2>
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