1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
|
---|
2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
|
---|
3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
|
---|
4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
|
---|
5 | %general-entities;
|
---|
6 | ]>
|
---|
7 |
|
---|
8 | <sect1 id="pre-hostreqs">
|
---|
9 | <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
|
---|
10 |
|
---|
11 | <title>Host System Requirements</title>
|
---|
12 |
|
---|
13 | <para>Your host system should have the following software with the
|
---|
14 | minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
|
---|
15 | modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
|
---|
16 | place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
|
---|
17 | <quote><package-name>-devel</quote> or
|
---|
18 | <quote><package-name>-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
|
---|
19 | your distribution provides them.</para>
|
---|
20 |
|
---|
21 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
|
---|
22 |
|
---|
23 | <listitem>
|
---|
24 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis> (/bin/sh
|
---|
25 | must be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
|
---|
26 | </listitem>
|
---|
27 |
|
---|
28 | <listitem>
|
---|
29 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
|
---|
30 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
|
---|
31 | not been tested)</para>
|
---|
32 | </listitem>
|
---|
33 |
|
---|
34 | <listitem>
|
---|
35 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc
|
---|
36 | must be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
|
---|
37 | </listitem>
|
---|
38 |
|
---|
39 | <listitem>
|
---|
40 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
|
---|
41 | </listitem>
|
---|
42 |
|
---|
43 | <listitem>
|
---|
44 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
|
---|
45 | Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
|
---|
46 | </listitem>
|
---|
47 |
|
---|
48 | <listitem>
|
---|
49 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
|
---|
50 | </listitem>
|
---|
51 |
|
---|
52 | <listitem>
|
---|
53 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
|
---|
54 | </listitem>
|
---|
55 |
|
---|
56 | <listitem>
|
---|
57 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk
|
---|
58 | must be a link to gawk)</para>
|
---|
59 | </listitem>
|
---|
60 |
|
---|
61 | <listitem>
|
---|
62 | <!-- Gcc-2.95.3 breaks feature tests when using CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/"
|
---|
63 | in the *-pass1 sections -->
|
---|
64 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-3.0.1</emphasis> (Versions
|
---|
65 | greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
|
---|
66 | been tested)</para>
|
---|
67 | </listitem>
|
---|
68 |
|
---|
69 | <listitem>
|
---|
70 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
|
---|
71 | greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
|
---|
72 | not been tested)</para>
|
---|
73 | </listitem>
|
---|
74 |
|
---|
75 | <listitem>
|
---|
76 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
|
---|
77 | </listitem>
|
---|
78 |
|
---|
79 | <listitem>
|
---|
80 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
|
---|
81 | </listitem>
|
---|
82 |
|
---|
83 | <listitem>
|
---|
84 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
|
---|
85 | (having been compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater)</para>
|
---|
86 |
|
---|
87 | <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
|
---|
88 | storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
|
---|
89 | Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
|
---|
90 | isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
|
---|
91 | GCC.</para>
|
---|
92 |
|
---|
93 | <para>If the host kernel is either earlier than 2.6.x, or it was not
|
---|
94 | compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will have to replace
|
---|
95 | the kernel with one adhering to the specifications. There are two methods
|
---|
96 | you can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a
|
---|
97 | 2.6 kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor
|
---|
98 | doesn't offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it,
|
---|
99 | then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the
|
---|
100 | kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are
|
---|
101 | located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
|
---|
102 | </listitem>
|
---|
103 |
|
---|
104 | <listitem>
|
---|
105 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
|
---|
106 | </listitem>
|
---|
107 |
|
---|
108 | <listitem>
|
---|
109 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
|
---|
110 | </listitem>
|
---|
111 |
|
---|
112 | <listitem>
|
---|
113 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Perl-5.6.0</emphasis></para>
|
---|
114 | </listitem>
|
---|
115 |
|
---|
116 | <listitem>
|
---|
117 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
|
---|
118 | </listitem>
|
---|
119 |
|
---|
120 | <listitem>
|
---|
121 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
|
---|
122 | </listitem>
|
---|
123 |
|
---|
124 | <!-- Needed by the apparently broken Binutils-2.18 -->
|
---|
125 | <listitem>
|
---|
126 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.8</emphasis></para>
|
---|
127 | </listitem>
|
---|
128 |
|
---|
129 | </itemizedlist>
|
---|
130 |
|
---|
131 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
|
---|
132 |
|
---|
133 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
|
---|
134 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
|
---|
135 | export LC_ALL=C
|
---|
136 |
|
---|
137 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
|
---|
138 |
|
---|
139 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
|
---|
140 | echo "/bin/sh -> `readlink -f /bin/sh`"
|
---|
141 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
|
---|
142 | bison --version | head -n1
|
---|
143 | if [ -e /usr/bin/yacc ]; then echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`";
|
---|
144 | else echo "yacc not found"; fi
|
---|
145 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
|
---|
146 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
|
---|
147 | diff --version | head -n1
|
---|
148 | find --version | head -n1
|
---|
149 | gawk --version | head -n1
|
---|
150 | if [ -e /usr/bin/awk ]; then echo "/usr/bin/awk -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/awk`";
|
---|
151 | else echo "awk not found"; fi
|
---|
152 | gcc --version | head -n1
|
---|
153 | /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
|
---|
154 | grep --version | head -n1
|
---|
155 | gzip --version | head -n1
|
---|
156 | cat /proc/version
|
---|
157 | make --version | head -n1
|
---|
158 | patch --version | head -n1
|
---|
159 | sed --version | head -n1
|
---|
160 | tar --version | head -n1
|
---|
161 | makeinfo --version | head -n1
|
---|
162 | </literal>
|
---|
163 | EOF
|
---|
164 |
|
---|
165 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
|
---|
166 |
|
---|
167 | </sect1>
|
---|