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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2013-01-22 23:27:01 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2013-01-22 23:27:01 +0000
commitec9f9d4fc39f3dbb6cda35eddfa0d17949340ad2 (patch)
treed78ce6577062a59e1c6813d774c566406c7d3d45 /chapter06
parent5347651c847c2356ee4f1642ebf6c975ac8fe9b5 (diff)
Upgrade to Procps-ng-3.3.6
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10099 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/procps.xml107
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/procps.xml b/chapter06/procps.xml
index a7bf84a7b..21da935db 100644
--- a/chapter06/procps.xml
+++ b/chapter06/procps.xml
@@ -6,63 +6,83 @@
]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-procps" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="procps.html"?>
+ <?dbhtml filename="procps-ng.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>procps</productname>
- <productnumber>&procps-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&procps-url;</address>
+ <productname>procps-ng</productname>
+ <productnumber>&procps-ng-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&procps-ng-url;</address>
</sect1info>
- <title>Procps-&procps-version;</title>
+ <title>Procps-&procps-ng-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-procps">
- <primary sortas="a-Procps">Procps</primary>
+ <primary sortas="a-Procps">Procps-ng</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The Procps package contains programs for monitoring processes.</para>
+ <para>The Procps-ng package contains programs for monitoring processes.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>&procps-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&procps-ch6-du;</seg>
+ <seg>&procps-ng-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&procps-ng-ch6-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Procps</title>
+ <title>Installation of Procps-ng</title>
- <para>Apply a patch to prevent an error message from being displayed when
- determining the kernel clock tick rate:</para>
+ <para>Now prepare procps-ng for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&procps-hz_fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix= \
+ --mandir=/usr/share/man \
+ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/$PROGRAM \
+ --disable-skill \
+ --disable-kill</userinput></screen>
- <para>Apply a patch to fix a unicode related issue in the
- <command>watch</command> program:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&procps-watch-patch;</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Do not install the kill program because it was installed by util-linux.
- Also fix a bug in the Makefile, which prevents procps from building with
- make-&make-version;:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's@\*/module.mk@proc/module.mk ps/module.mk@' \
- -e 's@^#SKIP@SKIP@' Makefile</userinput></screen>
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--disable-skill</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This switch disables the obsolete and unportable
+ skill and snice commands.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--disable-kill</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This switch disables building the kill command that
+ was installed in the util-linux package.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
-
+ <para>The test suite needs some custom modifications for LFS.
+ The <command>which</command> is not available and the
+ <command>pmap</command> test does not match a newline character in
+ two tests. To run the test suite, run the following commands:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">pushd testsuite
+ sed -i 's|exec which sleep|exec echo /tools/bin/sleep|' config/unix.exp
+ sed -i 's|pmap_initname\\\$|pmap_initname|' pmap.test/pmap.exp
+ make site.exp
+ DEJAGNU=global-conf.exp runtest
+popd</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
@@ -70,16 +90,16 @@
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-procps" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Procps</title>
+ <title>Contents of Procps-ng</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>free, pgrep, pkill, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice,
- sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch</seg>
- <seg>libproc.so</seg>
+ <seg>free, pgrep, pkill, pmap, ps, pwdx, slabtop,
+ sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and, watch</seg>
+ <seg>libprocps.so</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -149,16 +169,6 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="skill">
- <term><command>skill</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Sends signals to processes matching the given criteria</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps skill">
- <primary sortas="b-skill">skill</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry id="slabtop">
<term><command>slabtop</command></term>
<listitem>
@@ -169,17 +179,6 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="snice">
- <term><command>snice</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Changes the scheduling priority of processes matching the given
- criteria</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps snice">
- <primary sortas="b-snice">snice</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry id="sysctl">
<term><command>sysctl</command></term>
<listitem>
@@ -257,13 +256,13 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="libproc">
+ <varlistentry id="libprocps">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libproc</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains the functions used by most programs in this
package</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libproc">
- <primary sortas="c-libproc">libproc</primary>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libprocps">
+ <primary sortas="c-libprocps">libprocps</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>