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diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml index 1ee2c812d..7eeaa69a3 100644 --- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml @@ -7,7 +7,84 @@ Estimated required disk space: &coreutils-compsize;</screen> &aa-coreutils-shortdesc; &aa-coreutils-dep; -&c6-coreutils-inst; + +<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> + +<sect2> +<title>Installation of Coreutils</title> + +<para>Normally the functionality of <userinput>uname</userinput> is somewhat +broken, in that the <userinput>-p</userinput> switch always returns "unknown". +The following patch fixes this behaviour for Intel architectures:</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-uname-patch;</userinput></screen> + +<para>We do not want Coreutils to install its version of the +<userinput>hostname</userinput> program, because it is inferior to the version +provided by Net-tools. Prevent its installation by applying a patch:</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-hostname-patch;</userinput></screen> + +<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para> + +<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> + +<para>Compile the package:</para> + +<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> + +<para>The <userinput>su</userinput> program from Coreutils wasn't installed in +Chapter 5 because it needed <emphasis>root</emphasis> privilege to do so. We're +going to need it in a few moments for the test suite. Therefore we work around +the problem by installing it now:</para> + +<screen><userinput>make install-root</userinput></screen> + +<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of +checks to ensure it built correctly. However, this particular test suite +makes some assumptions with regards to the presence of non-root users and +groups that don't apply this early into the LFS build. We therefore create +a dummy system user and two dummy groups to allow the tests to run +properly. Should you choose not to run the test suite, skip down to +"Install the package". The following commands will prepare us for the test +suite. Create two dummy groups and a dummy user name:</para> + +<screen><userinput>echo "dummy1:x:1000" >> /etc/group +echo "dummy2:x:1001:dummy" >> /etc/group +echo "dummy:x:1000:1000:::/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd</userinput></screen> + +<para>Some tests are meant to run as <emphasis>root</emphasis>:</para> + +<screen><userinput>make check-root</userinput></screen> + +<para>The remainder of the tests are run as the <emphasis>dummy</emphasis> +user:</para> + +<screen><userinput>su dummy -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen> + +<para>Remove the dummy groups and user name:</para> + +<screen><userinput>sed -i.bak '/dummy/d' /etc/passwd /etc/group</userinput></screen> + +<para>Install the package:</para> + +<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> + +<para>And move some programs to their proper locations:</para> + +<screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/{basename,cat,chgrp,chmod,chown,cp,dd,df} /bin +mv /usr/bin/{dir,dircolors,du,date,echo,false,head} /bin +mv /usr/bin/{install,ln,ls,mkdir,mkfifo,mknod,mv,pwd} /bin +mv /usr/bin/{rm,rmdir,shred,sync,sleep,stty,su,test} /bin +mv /usr/bin/{touch,true,uname,vdir} /bin +mv /usr/bin/chroot /usr/sbin</userinput></screen> + +<para>Finally, create a few necessary symlinks:</para> + +<screen><userinput>ln -s test /bin/[ +ln -s ../../bin/install /usr/bin</userinput></screen> + +</sect2> </sect1> |