lfs-book/chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Sh-utils</title>

<para>Before Sh-utils is installed, the sh-utils 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 ../sh-utils-&sh-utils-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/usr --disable-nls &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make LDFLAGS=-static &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>cd $LFS/usr/bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>mv date echo false pwd stty $LFS/bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>mv su true uname hostname $LFS/bin</userinput></screen></para>

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