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authorZack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-12 19:58:19 +0000
committerZack Winkles <winkie@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-12 19:58:19 +0000
commitac55dee003da1b562812df6af4b1d9f5bb4f7939 (patch)
treedcad4bbd7dbea22adc193e214473ccb37828567d /chapter06
parentc58d07c4df672f6c9b22534c6c052c9c2c80b4b0 (diff)
Fixed bug #307
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3562 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/coreutils.xml24
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
index 0a98f0ff2..c65ca6a34 100644
--- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
@@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ architectures:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-&coreutils-version;-uname-2.patch</userinput></screen>
-<para>We do not want Coreutils to install its version of the
-<command>hostname</command> program, because it is inferior to the version
-provided by Net-tools. Prevent its installation by applying a patch:</para>
+<para>Prevent Coreutils from installing binaries that will be later be installed
+by other programs:</para>
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-&coreutils-version;-hostname-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-&coreutils-version;-dupes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
@@ -50,13 +49,6 @@ therefore have to set up a few things before being able to run the tests. If
you choose not to run these tests, skip down to <quote>Install the
package</quote>.</para>
-<para>To be able to run the full test suite, the <command>su</command> program
-needs to be installed. We didn't bother to install this little program in
-<xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> because it requires root privileges,
-so do it now:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>make install-root</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Create two dummy groups and a dummy user name:</para>
<screen><userinput>echo "dummy1:x:1000" &gt;&gt; /etc/group
@@ -71,7 +63,7 @@ are meant to be run as <emphasis>root</emphasis>:</para>
<para>Then run the remainder of the tests as the <emphasis>dummy</emphasis>
user:</para>
-<screen><userinput>su dummy -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>src/su dummy -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen>
<para>When you're done testing, remove the dummy user and groups:</para>
@@ -86,15 +78,9 @@ user:</para>
<screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/{[,basename,cat,chgrp,chmod,chown,cp,dd,df} /bin
mv /usr/bin/{date,echo,false,head,install,ln,ls} /bin
mv /usr/bin/{mkdir,mknod,mv,pwd,rm,rmdir,sync} /bin
-mv /usr/bin/{sleep,stty,su,test,touch,true,uname} /bin
+mv /usr/bin/{sleep,stty,test,touch,true,uname} /bin
mv /usr/bin/chroot /usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
-<para>We'll be using the <filename>kill</filename> program from the Procps
-package (installed as <filename>/bin/kill</filename> later in the chapter).
-Remove the one installed by Coreutils:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>rm /usr/bin/kill</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Finally, create a symlink to be FHS-compliant:</para>
<screen><userinput>ln -s ../../bin/install /usr/bin</userinput></screen>