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  1. <sect1 id="ch05-coreutils">
  2. <title>Installing Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="coreutils.html" dir="chapter05"?>
  4. <screen>Estimated build time: &coreutils-time-tools;
  5. Estimated required disk space: &coreutils-compsize-tools;</screen>
  6. <para>For the package details see <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
  7. <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  8. <sect2>
  9. <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
  10. <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
  11. <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
  12. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  13. <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  14. <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  15. checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
  16. following command will do so:</para>
  17. <screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>
  18. <para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
  19. <itemizedlist>
  20. <listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: This tells the
  21. test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively
  22. expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on
  23. Linux.</para></listitem>
  24. </itemizedlist>
  25. <para>And install the package:</para>
  26. <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  27. </sect2>
  28. </sect1>