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[b330f4a] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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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[fd8b059] | 24 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 25 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 26 |
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[d12ae76] | 27 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 28 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
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| 29 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
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| 30 | not been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 31 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 32 |
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[d12ae76] | 33 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 34 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 35 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 36 |
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[d12ae76] | 37 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 38 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
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| 39 | Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 40 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 41 |
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[d12ae76] | 42 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 43 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 44 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 45 |
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[d12ae76] | 46 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 47 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 48 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 49 |
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[d12ae76] | 50 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 51 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 52 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 53 |
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[d12ae76] | 54 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 55 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
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| 56 | greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
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| 57 | been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 58 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 59 |
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[d12ae76] | 60 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 61 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
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| 62 | greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
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| 63 | not been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 64 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 65 |
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[d12ae76] | 66 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 67 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 68 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 69 |
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[d12ae76] | 70 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 71 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 72 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 73 |
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[d12ae76] | 74 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 75 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
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[5e858e7] | 76 | (having been compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater)</para>
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[fd8b059] | 77 |
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| 78 | <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
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| 79 | storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
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| 80 | Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
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| 81 | isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
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| 82 | GCC.</para>
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| 83 |
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[5e858e7] | 84 | <para>If the host kernel is either 2.6.x, or it was not compiled using
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| 85 | a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will have to replace the kernel with
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| 86 | one adhering to the specifications. There are two methods you can take
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[fd8b059] | 87 | to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6 kernel
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[5e858e7] | 88 | package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor doesn't offer
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| 89 | a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it, then you
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| 90 | can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the kernel
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| 91 | and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are located
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| 92 | in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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[d12ae76] | 93 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 94 |
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[d12ae76] | 95 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 96 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 97 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 98 |
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[d12ae76] | 99 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 100 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 101 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 102 |
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[d12ae76] | 103 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 104 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 105 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 106 |
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[d12ae76] | 107 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 108 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 109 | </listitem>
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| 110 |
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| 111 | </itemizedlist>
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| 112 |
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[2914ab8c] | 113 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
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[5e858e7] | 114 |
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[b179883] | 115 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
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[5e858e7] | 116 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
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| 117 |
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[2914ab8c] | 118 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
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[5e858e7] | 119 |
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| 120 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
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| 121 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4
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| 122 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
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[baaa5c3] | 123 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
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[5e858e7] | 124 | diff --version | head -n1
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| 125 | find --version | head -n1
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| 126 | gawk --version | head -n1
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| 127 | gcc --version | head -n1
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| 128 | /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
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| 129 | grep --version | head -n1
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| 130 | gzip --version | head -n1
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| 131 | cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7
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| 132 | make --version | head -n1
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| 133 | patch --version | head -n1
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| 134 | sed --version | head -n1
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| 135 | tar --version | head -n1</literal>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | EOF
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| 138 |
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| 139 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
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| 140 |
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[d1ebcc8] | 141 | </sect1>
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