Estimated build time: &coreutils-time-tools; Estimated required disk space: &coreutils-compsize-tools; Official download location for Coreutils (&coreutils-version;): &aa-coreutils-dep;   Prepare Coreutils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools Compile the package: make As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Coreutils test suite anyway, the following command will do so: make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check The meaning of the make parameter: RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes: This tells the test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on Linux. And install the package: make install   The details on this package are found in .