lfs-book/chapter05/gzip-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Gzip</title>

<para>Before Gzip is installed, the gzip patch file needs to be
unpacked.  This patch file is necessary to avoid a conflict of variable
names with glibc when compiling and linking statically.</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make LDFLAGS=-static &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>cp $LFS/usr/bin/gunzip $LFS/usr/bin/gzip $LFS/bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>rm $LFS/usr/bin/gunzip $LFS/usr/bin/gzip</userinput></screen></para>

</sect2>