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

<screen>&buildtime; &coreutils-time-tools;
&diskspace; &coreutils-compsize-tools;</screen>

<literallayout>Official download location for Coreutils (&coreutils-version;):
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/"/>
And for the patch:
<ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-posixver-patch;"/></literallayout> 

&aa-coreutils-dep;

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

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

<para>Coreutils has an issue when compiled against Glibc-&glibc-version;.
Without the patch below, some of the Coreutils utilities
(<command>head</command>, <command>tail</command>, <command>sort</command>,
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:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-posixver-patch;</userinput></screen>

<para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>

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

<para>Compile the package:</para>

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

<para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue:
<userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput>. The
<emphasis>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</emphasis> 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.)</para>

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

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

</sect2>

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para>
<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
<para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

</sect1>