%general-entities; ]> 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 [package-name]-devel or [package-name]-dev. Be sure to install those as well, if your distribution provides them. Bash-2.05a Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than &binutils-version; not recommended) Bzip2-1.0.2 Coreutils-5.0 (or Sh-Utils-2.0, Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1) Diffutils-2.8 Findutils-4.1.20 Gawk-3.0 Gcc-2.95.3 (Versions greater than &gcc-version; not recommended) Glibc-2.2.5 (Versions greater than &glibc-version; not recommended) Grep-2.5 Gzip-1.2.4 Linux Kernel-2.6.x (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0) Make-3.79.1 Patch-2.5.4 Sed-3.0.2 Tar-1.14 The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel isn't a 2.6 kernel and has not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version. In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the requirements outlined above, run the following command: cat /proc/version This will produce output similar to: Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1 Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004 If the results of the above command do not state that the host kernel is either 2.6.x, or that it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, one will need to be installed. There are two methods you can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6 kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor doesn't offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it, then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are located in .