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<title>Installation of Fileutils</title>
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<para>The programs from a statically linked fileutils package may cause
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-segmentation faults on certain systems. These systems are often, but not
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-limited to, Linux systems that run Glibc-2.2.3 with an AMD CPU (Athlons
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-and Durons are the most reported used CPU's). If you are in this category,
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-run the following to sed commands before you compile this
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-package.</para>
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+segmentation faults on certain systems, if your distribution has
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+Glibc-2.2.3 or higher installed. It also seems to happen mostly on machines
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+powered by an AMD CPU, but there is a case or two where an Intel system
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+is affected as well. If your system falls under this category, try the
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+following fix.</para>
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<para>Note that in some cases using these sed commands will result in
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-problems not being able to compile this at package at all. If that's the
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-case, you'll need to remove the fileutils-&fileutils-version; directory
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-and unpack it again from the tarball before continuing.
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+problems not being able to compile this at package at all, even when your
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+system has and AMD CPU and has Glibc-2.2.3 (or higher) installed. If that's
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+the case, you'll need to remove the fileutils-&fileutils-version; directory
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+and unpack it again from the tarball before continuing. We believe this
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+may be the case when your distribution has altered Glibc-2.2.3 somehow,
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+but details are unavailable at the time.</para>
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-<screen><userinput>cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup &&</userinput>
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+<para>To fix this package to compile properly on AMD/Glibc-2.2.3
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+machines, run the following commands. do <emphasis>not</emphasis>
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+attempt this fix your don't have Glibc-2.2.3 installed. It will more
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+than likely result in all kinds of compile time problems.</para>
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+
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+<para><screen><userinput>cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup &&</userinput>
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<userinput>sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(fopen-safer\.c \)\\/\1\2atexit.c \\/' \</userinput>
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<userinput> -e 's/\(.*\)\(idcache\$U\.\$.*\)\\/\1\2atexit$U.$(OBJEXT) \\/' \</userinput>
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<userinput> lib/Makefile.in > lib/Makefile.in~ &&</userinput>
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