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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  3. "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  4. <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  5. %general-entities;
  6. ]>
  7. <sect1 id="ch-tools-coreutils" role="wrap">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="coreutils.html"?>
  9. <sect1info condition="script">
  10. <productname>coreutils</productname>
  11. <productnumber>&coreutils-version;</productnumber>
  12. <address>&coreutils-url;</address>
  13. </sect1info>
  14. <title>Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
  15. <indexterm zone="ch-tools-coreutils">
  16. <primary sortas="a-Coreutils">Coreutils</primary>
  17. <secondary>tools</secondary>
  18. </indexterm>
  19. <sect2 role="package">
  20. <title/>
  21. <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  22. href="../chapter06/coreutils.xml"
  23. xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
  24. <segmentedlist>
  25. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  26. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  27. <seglistitem>
  28. <seg>&coreutils-ch5-sbu;</seg>
  29. <seg>&coreutils-ch5-du;</seg>
  30. </seglistitem>
  31. </segmentedlist>
  32. </sect2>
  33. <sect2 role="installation">
  34. <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
  35. <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
  36. <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools --enable-install-program=hostname</userinput></screen>
  37. <variablelist>
  38. <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
  39. <varlistentry>
  40. <term><envar>--enable-install-program=hostname</envar></term>
  41. <listitem>
  42. <para>This enables the <command>hostname</command> binary to be built
  43. and installed &ndash; it is disabled by default but is required by the
  44. Perl test suite.</para>
  45. </listitem>
  46. </varlistentry>
  47. </variablelist>
  48. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  49. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  50. <para>Compilation is now complete. As discussed earlier, running the test
  51. suite is not mandatory for the temporary tools here in this chapter. To run
  52. the Coreutils test suite anyway, issue the following command:</para>
  53. <screen><userinput remap="test">make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>
  54. <para>The <parameter>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</parameter> parameter tells the
  55. test suite to run several additional tests that are considered
  56. relatively expensive (in terms of CPU power and memory usage) on some
  57. platforms, but generally are not a problem on Linux.</para>
  58. <para>Install the package:</para>
  59. <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  60. <!--
  61. <para>The above command refuses to install <filename>su</filename>
  62. because the program cannot be installed setuid root as a non-privileged
  63. user. By manually installing it, we can use it for running tests in the
  64. final system as a non-privileged user. Install it with:</para>
  65. <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v src/su /tools/bin</userinput></screen>
  66. -->
  67. </sect2>
  68. <sect2 role="content">
  69. <title/>
  70. <para>Details on this package are located in
  71. <xref linkend="contents-coreutils" role="."/></para>
  72. </sect2>
  73. </sect1>