lfs-book/chapter06/gzip-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Gzip</title>

<para>Prepare Gzip to be compiled:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>
patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp; 
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
cp gzexe.in{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in
</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>

<para>And finish off installing the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Move the Gzip binaries to the root partition:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>
mv /usr/bin/gzip /bin &amp;&amp;
rm /usr/bin/{gunzip,zcat} &amp;&amp;
ln -s gzip /bin/gunzip &amp;&amp;
ln -s gzip /bin/zcat &amp;&amp;
ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen></para>

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<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-1.2.4b.patch:</userinput>
This patch fixes a buffer overflow that occurs when a filename is
longer than 1020 characters.</para>

<para><userinput>
cp gzexe.in{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in</userinput>
Change the default installation directory for Gzip so it will be
installed on the root partition.</para>


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