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Last change on this file since e1060de was a12d507, checked in by Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>, 18 years ago

Fix a couple of typos in the prologue

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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>&lt;package-name&gt;-devel</quote> or
18 <quote>&lt;package-name&gt;-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></para>
25 </listitem>
26
27 <listitem>
28 <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
29 greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
30 not been tested)</para>
31 </listitem>
32
33 <listitem>
34 <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
35 </listitem>
36
37 <listitem>
38 <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
39 Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
40 </listitem>
41
42 <listitem>
43 <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
44 </listitem>
45
46 <listitem>
47 <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
48 </listitem>
49
50 <listitem>
51 <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
52 </listitem>
53
54 <listitem>
55 <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
56 greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
57 been tested)</para>
58 </listitem>
59
60 <listitem>
61 <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
62 greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
63 not been tested)</para>
64 </listitem>
65
66 <listitem>
67 <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
68 </listitem>
69
70 <listitem>
71 <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
72 </listitem>
73
74 <listitem>
75 <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
76 (having been compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater)</para>
77
78 <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
79 storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
80 Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
81 isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
82 GCC.</para>
83
84 <para>If the host kernel is either earlier than 2.6.x, or it was not
85 compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will have to replace
86 the kernel with one adhering to the specifications. There are two methods
87 you can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a
88 2.6 kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor
89 doesn't offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it,
90 then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the
91 kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are
92 located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
93 </listitem>
94
95 <listitem>
96 <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
97 </listitem>
98
99 <listitem>
100 <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
101 </listitem>
102
103 <listitem>
104 <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
105 </listitem>
106
107 <listitem>
108 <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
109 </listitem>
110
111 </itemizedlist>
112
113 <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
114
115<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
116<literal>#!/bin/bash
117
118# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
119
120bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
121echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4
122bzip2 --version 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt; /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
123echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
124diff --version | head -n1
125find --version | head -n1
126gawk --version | head -n1
127gcc --version | head -n1
128/lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
129grep --version | head -n1
130gzip --version | head -n1
131cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7
132make --version | head -n1
133patch --version | head -n1
134sed --version | head -n1
135tar --version | head -n1</literal>
136
137EOF
138
139bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
140
141</sect1>
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