lfs-book/chapter06/findutils-inst.xml

<sect2>
<title>Installing Findutils</title>

<para>Before Findutils is installed the findutils patch file has 
to be unpacked.</para>

<para>Install Findutils by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-4.1.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>

</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>FHS compliance notes</title>

<para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var.
If you would rather be FHS compliant, you may wish to use another
location.  The following commands use the database file 
<filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> which is FHS compliant.</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-4.1.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make localstatedir=/var/lib/misc &amp;&amp;
make localstatedir=/var/lib/misc libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>

</sect2>