BOOK/chapter06/lfs-utils.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-lfs-utils" xreflabel="Lfs-Utils">
   2 <title>Installing Lfs-Utils-&lfs-utils-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="lfs-utils.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The Lfs-Utils package contains a few helper files.</para>
   6
   7 <screen>&buildtime; &lfs-utils-time;
   8 &diskspace; &lfs-utils-compsize;</screen>
   9
  10 &aa-lfs-utils-down;
  11 &aa-lfs-utils-dep;
  12
  13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  14
  15 <sect2>
  16 <title>Installation of Lfs-Utils</title>
  17
  18 <para>Prepare Lfs-Utils for compilation:</para>
  19
  20 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libc</userinput></screen>
  21
  22 <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
  23
  24 <itemizedlist>
  25 <listitem><para><userinput>--with-libc</userinput>: This causes the
  26 <command>mktemp</command> program to use the <emphasis>mkstemp</emphasis>
  27 and <emphasis>mkdtemp</emphasis> functions from the system C
  28 library.</para></listitem>
  29 </itemizedlist>
  30
  31 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  32
  33 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  34
  35 <para>And install it:</para>
  36
  37 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  38
  39 <para>Now copy two supporting files included in the Lfs-Utils tarball to
  40 their destination:</para>
  41
  42 <screen><userinput>cp etc/{services,protocols} /etc</userinput></screen>
  43
  44 <para>The <filename>/etc/services</filename> file is used to resolve service
  45 numbers to human-readable names, and the <filename>/etc/protocols</filename>
  46 does the same for protocol numbers.</para>
  47
  48 </sect2>
  49
  50 &aa-lfs-utils-shortdesc;
  51 &aa-lfs-utils-desc;
  52
  53 </sect1>
  54