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[b06ca36] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[d1ebcc8] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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[b330f4a] | 7 |
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[dc931cb] | 8 | <sect1 id="pre-hostreqs">
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[b330f4a] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Host System Requirements</title>
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| 12 |
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[fd8b059] | 13 | <para>Your host system should have the following software with the
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| 14 | minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
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| 15 | modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
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| 16 | place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
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| 17 | <quote><package-name>-devel</quote> or
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| 18 | <quote><package-name>-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
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[5e858e7] | 19 | your distribution provides them.</para>
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[d12ae76] | 20 |
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[bf5724b] | 21 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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[fd8b059] | 22 |
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[d12ae76] | 23 | <listitem>
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[067e51d] | 24 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis> (/bin/sh
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| 25 | must be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 26 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 27 |
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[d12ae76] | 28 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 29 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
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| 30 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
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| 31 | not been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 32 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 33 |
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[07dfccb] | 34 | <listitem>
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[067e51d] | 35 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc
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| 36 | must be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
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[07dfccb] | 37 | </listitem>
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| 38 |
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[d12ae76] | 39 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 40 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 41 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 42 |
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[d12ae76] | 43 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 44 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
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| 45 | Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 46 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 47 |
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[d12ae76] | 48 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 49 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 50 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 51 |
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[d12ae76] | 52 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 53 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 54 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 55 |
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[d12ae76] | 56 | <listitem>
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[067e51d] | 57 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk
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| 58 | must be a link to gawk)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 59 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 60 |
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[d12ae76] | 61 | <listitem>
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[acec478] | 62 | <!-- Gcc-2.95.3 breaks feature tests when using CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/"
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| 63 | in the *-pass1 sections -->
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| 64 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-3.0.1</emphasis> (Versions
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[fd8b059] | 65 | greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
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| 66 | been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 67 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 68 |
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[d12ae76] | 69 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 70 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
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| 71 | greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
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| 72 | not been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 73 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 74 |
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[d12ae76] | 75 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 76 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 77 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 78 |
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[d12ae76] | 79 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 80 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 81 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 82 |
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[d12ae76] | 83 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 84 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
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[5e858e7] | 85 | (having been compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater)</para>
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[fd8b059] | 86 |
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| 87 | <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
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| 88 | storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
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| 89 | Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
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| 90 | isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
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| 91 | GCC.</para>
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| 92 |
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[a12d507] | 93 | <para>If the host kernel is either earlier than 2.6.x, or it was not
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| 94 | compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will have to replace
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| 95 | the kernel with one adhering to the specifications. There are two methods
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| 96 | you can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a
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| 97 | 2.6 kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor
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| 98 | doesn't offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it,
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| 99 | then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the
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| 100 | kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are
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| 101 | located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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[d12ae76] | 102 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 103 |
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[d12ae76] | 104 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 105 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 106 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 107 |
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[d12ae76] | 108 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 109 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 110 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 111 |
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[9692a57] | 112 | <listitem>
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| 113 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Perl-5.6.0</emphasis></para>
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| 114 | </listitem>
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| 115 |
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[d12ae76] | 116 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 117 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 118 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 119 |
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[d12ae76] | 120 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 121 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 122 | </listitem>
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| 123 |
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[20d4c8a] | 124 | <!-- Needed by the apparently broken Binutils-2.18 -->
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| 125 | <listitem>
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| 126 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.8</emphasis></para>
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| 127 | </listitem>
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| 128 |
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[d12ae76] | 129 | </itemizedlist>
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| 130 |
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[2914ab8c] | 131 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
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[5e858e7] | 132 |
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[b179883] | 133 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
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[5e858e7] | 134 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
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[b8462fa] | 135 | export LC_ALL=C
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[5e858e7] | 136 |
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[2914ab8c] | 137 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
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[5e858e7] | 138 |
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| 139 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
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[3f8f0ed] | 140 | echo "/bin/sh -> `readlink -f /bin/sh`"
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[727a610] | 141 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
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[172a92e] | 142 | bison --version | head -n1
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[3f8f0ed] | 143 | if [ -e /usr/bin/yacc ]; then echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`";
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| 144 | else echo "yacc not found"; fi
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[5e858e7] | 145 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
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[baaa5c3] | 146 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
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[5e858e7] | 147 | diff --version | head -n1
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| 148 | find --version | head -n1
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| 149 | gawk --version | head -n1
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[3f8f0ed] | 150 | if [ -e /usr/bin/awk ]; then echo "/usr/bin/awk -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/awk`";
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| 151 | else echo "awk not found"; fi
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[5e858e7] | 152 | gcc --version | head -n1
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| 153 | /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
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| 154 | grep --version | head -n1
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| 155 | gzip --version | head -n1
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[a3b689f] | 156 | cat /proc/version
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[5e858e7] | 157 | make --version | head -n1
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| 158 | patch --version | head -n1
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| 159 | sed --version | head -n1
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[20d4c8a] | 160 | tar --version | head -n1
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[067e51d] | 161 | makeinfo --version | head -n1
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| 162 | </literal>
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[5e858e7] | 163 | EOF
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| 164 |
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| 165 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
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| 166 |
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[d1ebcc8] | 167 | </sect1>
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