lfs-book/chapter05/grep-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Grep</title>

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

<para><screen><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static" CPPFLAGS=-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-perl-regexp</userinput></screen></para>

<para>The meaning of the configure option is:</para>

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<listitem><para><userinput>--disable-perl-regexp</userinput>: This
configure option makes sure <filename>grep</filename> is not linked against
the PCRE library, which is often only available as a shared library in
distributions. Not using this option might result in a compilation
error.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<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>

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