The Coreutils package contains utilities for showing and setting the basic system characteristics. &buildtime; &coreutils-time; &diskspace; &coreutils-compsize; &aa-coreutils-down; &aa-coreutils-dep;   Apply the same Posixver patch we used previously: patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch; Normally the functionality of uname is somewhat broken, in that the -p switch always returns "unknown". The following patch fixes this behaviour for Intel architectures: patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-uname-patch; We do not want Coreutils to install its version of the hostname program, because it is inferior to the version provided by Net-tools. Prevent its installation by applying a patch: patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-hostname-patch; Now prepare Coreutils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make The test suite of Coreutils makes several assumptions about the presence of files and users that aren't valid yet this early in the LFS build. We will therefore have to set up a few things before being able to run the tests. If you choose not to run these tests, skip down to "Install the package". First create a 'table of mounted filesystems' file with: touch /etc/mtab And create two dummy groups and a dummy user name: echo "dummy1:x:1000" >> /etc/group echo "dummy2:x:1001:dummy" >> /etc/group echo "dummy:x:1000:1000:::/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd Now you're all set to run the test suite. First run the few tests that are meant to be run as root: make check-root Then run the remainder of the tests as the dummy user: src/su dummy -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check" The above command uses the newly compiled src/su program, since in we didn't bother to install it, because installing it requires root privileges. When you're done testing, remove the dummy user and groups: sed -i.bak '/dummy/d' /etc/passwd /etc/group Install the package: make install And move some programs to their proper locations: mv /usr/bin/{basename,cat,chgrp,chmod,chown,cp,dd,df} /bin mv /usr/bin/{date,echo,false,head,install,ln,ls} /bin mv /usr/bin/{mkdir,mknod,mv,pwd,rm,rmdir,sync} /bin mv /usr/bin/{sleep,stty,su,test,touch,true,uname} /bin mv /usr/bin/chroot /usr/sbin We'll be using the kill program from the Procps package (installed as /bin/kill later in the chapter). Remove the one installed by Coreutils: rm /usr/bin/kill Finally, create two symlinks to be FHS-compliant: ln -s test /bin/[ ln -s ../../bin/install /usr/bin &aa-coreutils-shortdesc; &aa-coreutils-desc;