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<sect1 id="ch05-coreutils">
<title>Installing Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="coreutils.html" dir="chapter05"?>

<screen>Estimated build time:           &coreutils-time-tools;
Estimated required disk space:  &coreutils-compsize-tools;</screen>

<para>For the package details see <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Coreutils</title>

<para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
following command will do so:</para>

<screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>

<para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: 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.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>And install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</sect2>

</sect1>