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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2016-05-16 22:12:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2016-05-16 22:12:01 +0000 |
| commit | 72fb9bf99704f015341645d1f9c8ae7c74a128d5 (patch) | |
| tree | c7d584f52d6fcc6df69a2598d02192781d237069 /prologue | |
| parent | 50079617a9440a0a421b88f0758d48ac039e57f5 (diff) | |
Moved Host System Requirements to Chapter 2
and made minor editorial changes.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11061 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | prologue/preface.xml | 1 |
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diff --git a/prologue/hostreqs.xml b/prologue/hostreqs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index c52f81e0f..000000000 --- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,238 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ - <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> - %general-entities; -]> - -<sect1 id="pre-hostreqs" xreflabel="Host System Requirements"> - <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?> - - <title>Host System Requirements</title> - - <para>Your host system should have the following software with the - minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most - modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will - place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of - <quote><package-name>-devel</quote> or - <quote><package-name>-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if - your distribution provides them.</para> - - <para>Earlier versions of the listed software packages may work, but has not - been tested.</para> - - <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-3.2</emphasis> (/bin/sh - should be a symbolic or hard link to bash)</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.17</emphasis> (Versions - greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have - not been tested)</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-2.3</emphasis> (/usr/bin/yacc - should be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.4</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-6.9</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8.1</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.2.31</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-4.0.1</emphasis> (/usr/bin/awk - should be a link to gawk)</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.7</emphasis> including the C++ - compiler, <command>g++</command> (Versions greater than &gcc-version; are - not recommended as they have not been tested)</para> - - <note><para>On some distributions, there have been reports that some - libraries used by gcc can be in an inconsistent state and that this - interferes with building some LFS packages. To check this, look in - /usr/lib and possibly /usr/lib64 for libgmp.la, libmpfr.la, and - libmpc.la. Either all three should be present or absent, but not only - one or two. If the problem exists on your system, either rename or - delete the .la files or install the appropriate missing - package.</para></note> - - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis> (Versions - greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have - not been tested)</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5.1a</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.3.12</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-&min-kernel;</emphasis></para> - - <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that we specify - that version when building <application>glibc</application> in Chapter 6 - at the recommendation of the developers. It is also required by - udev.</para> - - <para>If the host kernel is earlier than &min-kernel; you will need to replace - the kernel with a more up to date version. There are two ways - you can go about this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a &min-kernel; - or later kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your - vendor doesn't offer an acceptable kernel package, or you would prefer not to - install it, you can compile a kernel yourself. Instructions for - compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host - uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para> - - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">M4-1.4.10</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.81</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Perl-5.8.8</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.1.5</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.22</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.7</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para><emphasis role="strong">Xz-5.0.0</emphasis></para> - </listitem> - - </itemizedlist> - - <para>Note that the symlinks mentioned above are required to build an LFS - system using the instructions contained within this book. Symlinks that - point to other software (such as dash, mawk, etc.) may work, but are not - tested or supported by the LFS development team, and may require either - deviation from the instructions or additional patches to some - packages.</para> - - <!-- Use an empty sect2 element to prevent a pdf warning. --> - <sect2 id="version-check" xreflabel="Section vii, Host System Requirements"> - <title> </title> - - <para >To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, and - the ability to compile programs, run the following:</para> - -<!-- ANY additional lines in the script cause a pdf rendering problem--> -<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF" -<literal>#!/bin/bash -# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools -export LC_ALL=C -bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4 -MYSH=$(readlink -f /bin/sh) -echo "/bin/sh -> $MYSH" -echo $MYSH | grep -q bash || echo "ERROR: /bin/sh does not point to bash" -unset MYSH - -echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3- -bison --version | head -n1 - -if [ -h /usr/bin/yacc ]; then - echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`"; -elif [ -x /usr/bin/yacc ]; then - echo yacc is `/usr/bin/yacc --version | head -n1` -else - echo "yacc not found" -fi - -bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6- -echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2 -diff --version | head -n1 -find --version | head -n1 -gawk --version | head -n1 - -if [ -h /usr/bin/awk ]; then - echo "/usr/bin/awk -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/awk`"; -elif [ -x /usr/bin/awk ]; then - echo awk is `/usr/bin/awk --version | head -n1` -else - echo "awk not found" -fi - -gcc --version | head -n1 -g++ --version | head -n1 -ldd --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2- # glibc version -grep --version | head -n1 -gzip --version | head -n1 -cat /proc/version -m4 --version | head -n1 -make --version | head -n1 -patch --version | head -n1 -echo Perl `perl -V:version` -sed --version | head -n1 -tar --version | head -n1 -makeinfo --version | head -n1 -xz --version | head -n1 -<?hard-pagebreak?> -echo 'int main(){}' > dummy.c && g++ -o dummy dummy.c -if [ -x dummy ] - then echo "g++ compilation OK"; - else echo "g++ compilation failed"; fi -rm -f dummy.c dummy</literal> -EOF - -bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen> - - <para>Also check for some library consistency:</para> - -<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > library-check.sh << "EOF" -<literal>#!/bin/bash -for lib in lib{gmp,mpfr,mpc}.la; do - echo $lib: $(if find /usr/lib* -name $lib| - grep -q $lib;then :;else echo not;fi) found -done -unset lib</literal> -EOF - -bash library-check.sh</userinput></screen> - -<para>The files identified by this script should be all present -or all absent, but not only one or two present.</para> - - -</sect2> -</sect1> diff --git a/prologue/preface.xml b/prologue/preface.xml index bd2139857..21317757f 100644 --- a/prologue/preface.xml +++ b/prologue/preface.xml @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="standards.xml"/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="why.xml"/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="prerequisites.xml"/> - <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="hostreqs.xml"/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="typography.xml"/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="organization.xml"/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="errata.xml"/> |