lfs-book/chapter05/grep.xml

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<title>Installing Grep-&grep-version;</title>
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<screen>&buildtime; &grep-time-tools;
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<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Grep</title>

<para>Prepare Grep for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-perl-regexp --with-included-regex</userinput></screen>

<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-perl-regexp</userinput>: This makes sure
that <command>grep</command> does not get linked against a PCRE library
that may be present on the host and would not be available once we enter the
chroot environment.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><userinput>--with-included-regex</userinput>: This ensures that
Grep uses its internal regular expression code. Without this switch, Grep will
use the code from Glibc, which is known to be slightly buggy.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Compile the programs:</para>

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

<para>As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the
temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Grep test
suite anyway, the following command will do so:</para>

<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>

<para>Then install them and their documentation:</para>

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

</sect2>

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para>
<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-grep"/>.</para>
<para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

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