&buildtime; &coreutils-time-tools; &diskspace; &coreutils-compsize-tools; Official download location for Coreutils (&coreutils-version;): And for the patch: &aa-coreutils-dep;   Coreutils has an issue when compiled against Glibc-&glibc-version;. Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities (head, tail, sort, and others) will reject their traditional syntax which has been in use for approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be updated. More details on this are provided in the comments inside the patch itself. Use of this patch is by no means compulsory, but not using it means you'll have to deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that use the old syntax. Therefore, better apply the patch: patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch; Now prepare Coreutils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools Compile the package: make (If you insist on testing the results, then issue: make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check. The RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes parameter tells the test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some platforms but generally are not a problem on Linux.) And install the package: make install   The details on this package are found in .