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5.18. Coreutils-8.14
The Coreutils package contains utilities for showing and setting the basic system characteristics.
Approximate build time: 0.7 SBU
Required disk space: 88 MB
5.18.1. Installation of Coreutils
Prepare Coreutils for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools --enable-install-program=hostname
The meaning of the configure options:
--enable-install-program=hostname
This enables the hostname binary to be built and installed – it is disabled by default but is required by the Perl
test suite.
Compile the package:
make
Compilation is now complete. As discussed earlier, running the test suite is not mandatory for the temporary tools
here in this chapter. To run the Coreutils test suite anyway, issue the following command:
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 (in terms of CPU power and memory usage) on some platforms, but generally are not a problem
on Linux.
Install the package:
make install
The above command refuses to install su because the program cannot be installed setuid root as a non-privileged
user. By manually installing it with a different name, we can use it for running tests in the final system as a non-
privileged user and we keep a possibly useful su from our host first in our PATH. Install it with:
cp -v src/su /tools/bin/su-tools
Details on this package are located in Section 6.23.2, “Contents of Coreutils.”
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