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<sect2>
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<title>Installation of Fileutils</title>
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+<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
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+install it. Make sure it's unpacked before running the installation
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+commands.</para>
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+
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<para>The programs from a statically linked Fileutils package may cause
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segmentation faults on certain systems, if your distribution has
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Glibc-2.2.3 or higher installed. It seems to happen mostly on machines
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powered by an AMD CPU, but there is a case or two where an Intel system
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-is affected as well. If your system falls in this category, try the
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-following fix.</para>
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+is affected as well. If your system falls in this category, apply the
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+patch.</para>
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-<para>Note that in some cases using these sed commands will result in
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-not being able to compile this package at all, even when your
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-system has an AMD CPU and has Glibc-2.2.3 (or higher) installed. If that's
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-the case, you'll need to remove the fileutils-&fileutils-version; directory
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-and unpack it again from the tarball before continuing. We believe this
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-may be the case when your distribution has altered Glibc-2.2.3 somehow,
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-but details are unavailable at the time.</para>
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+<para>Note that in some cases using this patch will result in not being
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+able to compile this package at all, even when your system has an AMD CPU
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+and has Glibc-2.2.3 (or higher) installed. If that's the case, you'll need
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+to remove the fileutils-&fileutils-version; directory and unpack it again
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+from the tarball before continuing. We believe this may be the case when
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+your distribution has altered Glibc-2.2.3 somehow, but details are
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+unavailable at the time.</para>
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<para>To fix this package to compile properly on AMD/Glibc-2.2.3
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-machines, run the following commands. Do <emphasis>not</emphasis>
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+machines, run the following command. Do <emphasis>not</emphasis>
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attempt this fix if you don't have Glibc-2.2.3 installed. It will more
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than likely result in all kinds of compile time problems.</para>
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-<para><screen><userinput>cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup &&
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-sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(fopen-safer\.c \)\\/\1\2atexit.c \\/' \
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- -e 's/\(.*\)\(idcache\$U\.\$.*\)\\/\1\2atexit$U.$(OBJEXT) \\/' \
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- lib/Makefile.in.backup > lib/Makefile.in</userinput></screen></para>
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+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../fileutils-&fileutils-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>Install Fileutils by running the following commands:</para>
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