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<para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis> (/bin/sh
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- must be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
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+ should be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para>
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<para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc
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- must be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
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+ should be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
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<para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk
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- must be a link to gawk)</para>
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+ should be a link to gawk)</para>
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</itemizedlist>
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- <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
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+ <para>Note that the symlinks mentioned above are required to build an LFS
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+ system using the instructions contained within this book. Symlinks that
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+ point to other software (such as dash, mawk, etc.) may work, but are not
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+ tested or supported by the LFS development team, and may require either
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+ deviation from the instructions or additional patches to some
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+ packages.</para>
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+
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+ <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, and
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+ ability to compile programs, run
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+ the following:</para>
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<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
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<literal>#!/bin/bash
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@@ -160,6 +169,9 @@ echo Perl `perl -V:version`
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sed --version | head -n1
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tar --version | head -n1
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makeinfo --version | head -n1
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+echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c && gcc -o dummy dummy.c
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+if [ -x dummy ]; then echo "Compilation OK"; else echo "Compilation failed"; fi
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+rm -f dummy.c dummy
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</literal>
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EOF
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