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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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[7088c96] | 21 | <para>Earlier versions of the listed software packages may work, but has not
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| 22 | been tested.</para>
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| 23 |
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[bf5724b] | 24 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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[fd8b059] | 25 |
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[d12ae76] | 26 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 27 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-3.2</emphasis> (/bin/sh
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[e4ab232] | 28 | should be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 29 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 30 |
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[d12ae76] | 31 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 32 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.17</emphasis> (Versions
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[fd8b059] | 33 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
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| 34 | not been tested)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 35 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 36 |
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[07dfccb] | 37 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 38 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-2.3</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc
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[e4ab232] | 39 | should be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
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[07dfccb] | 40 | </listitem>
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| 41 |
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[d12ae76] | 42 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 43 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.4</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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[7088c96] | 47 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-6.9</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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[7088c96] | 51 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8.1</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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[7088c96] | 55 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.2.31</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 56 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 57 |
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[d12ae76] | 58 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 59 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.1.5</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk
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[e4ab232] | 60 | should be a link to gawk)</para>
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[d12ae76] | 61 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 62 |
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[d12ae76] | 63 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 64 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-4.1.2</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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[7088c96] | 70 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.5.1</emphasis> (Versions
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[fd8b059] | 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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[7088c96] | 76 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5.1a</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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[7088c96] | 80 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.3.12</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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[13e7d79] | 84 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.25</emphasis>
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[8c0ce1b] | 85 | (having been compiled with GCC-4.1.2 or greater)</para>
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[fd8b059] | 86 |
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[9ee226e] | 87 | <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that we specify
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| 88 | that version when building <application>glibc</application> in Chapter 6
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[13e7d79] | 89 | at the recommendation of the developers. It is also required by
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| 90 | udev.</para>
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[7088c96] | 91 |
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[13e7d79] | 92 | <para>If the host kernel is either earlier than 2.6.25, or it was not
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[5b13731] | 93 | compiled using a GCC-4.1.2 (or later) compiler, you will need to replace
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[9ee226e] | 94 | the kernel with one adhering to the specifications. There are two ways
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[13e7d79] | 95 | you can go about this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6.25
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[9ee226e] | 96 | or later kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your
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| 97 | vendor doesn't offer an acceptable kernel package, or you would prefer not to
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| 98 | install it, you can compile a kernel yourself. Instructions for
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| 99 | compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host
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| 100 | uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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[56ca3a5f] | 101 |
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[d12ae76] | 102 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 103 |
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[787fe0c] | 104 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 105 | <para><emphasis role="strong">M4-1.4.10</emphasis></para>
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[787fe0c] | 106 | </listitem>
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| 107 |
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[d12ae76] | 108 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 109 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.81</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 110 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 111 |
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[d12ae76] | 112 | <listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 113 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 114 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 115 |
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[9692a57] | 116 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 117 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Perl-5.8.8</emphasis></para>
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[9692a57] | 118 | </listitem>
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| 119 |
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[d12ae76] | 120 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 121 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.1.5</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 122 | </listitem>
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[fd8b059] | 123 |
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[d12ae76] | 124 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 125 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.18</emphasis></para>
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[d12ae76] | 126 | </listitem>
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| 127 |
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[20d4c8a] | 128 | <!-- Needed by the apparently broken Binutils-2.18 -->
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| 129 | <listitem>
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[7088c96] | 130 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.9</emphasis></para>
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[20d4c8a] | 131 | </listitem>
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| 132 |
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[8e771c5] | 133 | <listitem>
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| 134 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Xz-5.0.3</emphasis></para>
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| 135 | </listitem>
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| 136 |
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[d12ae76] | 137 | </itemizedlist>
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| 138 |
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[e4ab232] | 139 | <para>Note that the symlinks mentioned above are required to build an LFS
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| 140 | system using the instructions contained within this book. Symlinks that
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| 141 | point to other software (such as dash, mawk, etc.) may work, but are not
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| 142 | tested or supported by the LFS development team, and may require either
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| 143 | deviation from the instructions or additional patches to some
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| 144 | packages.</para>
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| 145 |
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[dc96e56] | 146 | <para id="version-check">To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, and
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[26b4421] | 147 | the ability to compile programs, run the following:</para>
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[5e858e7] | 148 |
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[5dcff99] | 149 | <!-- ANY additional lines in the script cause a pdf rendering problem-->
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[b179883] | 150 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
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[5e858e7] | 151 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
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[2914ab8c] | 152 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
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[5e858e7] | 153 |
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[5dcff99] | 154 | export LC_ALL=C
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[5e858e7] | 155 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
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[800f6ea] | 156 | echo "/bin/sh -> `readlink -f /bin/sh`"
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[727a610] | 157 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
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[172a92e] | 158 | bison --version | head -n1
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[4c0c012] | 159 | if [ -e /usr/bin/yacc ];
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[800f6ea] | 160 | then echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`";
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[3f8f0ed] | 161 | else echo "yacc not found"; fi
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[54d3ed5] | 162 |
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[5e858e7] | 163 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
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[baaa5c3] | 164 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
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[5e858e7] | 165 | diff --version | head -n1
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| 166 | find --version | head -n1
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| 167 | gawk --version | head -n1
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[4c0c012] | 168 | if [ -e /usr/bin/awk ];
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[946e599] | 169 | then echo "/usr/bin/awk -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/awk`";
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[3f8f0ed] | 170 | else echo "awk not found"; fi
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[54d3ed5] | 171 |
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[5e858e7] | 172 | gcc --version | head -n1
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[54d3ed5] | 173 | ldd --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2- # glibc version
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[5e858e7] | 174 | grep --version | head -n1
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| 175 | gzip --version | head -n1
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[a3b689f] | 176 | cat /proc/version
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[787fe0c] | 177 | m4 --version | head -n1
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[5e858e7] | 178 | make --version | head -n1
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| 179 | patch --version | head -n1
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[3ccd4fe] | 180 | echo Perl `perl -V:version`
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[5e858e7] | 181 | sed --version | head -n1
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[20d4c8a] | 182 | tar --version | head -n1
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[67e01e5] | 183 | echo "Texinfo: `makeinfo --version | head -n1`"
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[8e771c5] | 184 | xz --version | head -n1
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[54d3ed5] | 185 |
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[800f6ea] | 186 | echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c && gcc -o dummy dummy.c
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[5dcff99] | 187 | if [ -x dummy ]
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| 188 | then echo "gcc compilation OK";
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[54d3ed5] | 189 | else echo "gcc compilation failed"; fi
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[5dcff99] | 190 | rm -f dummy.c dummy</literal>
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[5e858e7] | 191 | EOF
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| 192 |
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| 193 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
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| 194 |
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[d1ebcc8] | 195 | </sect1>
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