newxml/chapter05/coreutils.xml

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   6 <sect1 id="ch05-coreutils">
   7 <title>Installing Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
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   9
  10 <screen>Estimated build time:           0.9 SBU
  11 Estimated required disk space:  69 MB</screen>
  12
  13 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../appendixa/coreutils-contents.xml"/>
  14
  15
  16
  17 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../appendixa/coreutils-deps.xml"/>
  18
  19
  20
  21 <sect2>
  22 <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
  23
  24 <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
  25
  26 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
  27
  28 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  29
  30 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  31
  32 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  33 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the
  34 following command will do so:</para>
  35
  36 <screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>
  37
  38 <para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
  39
  40 <itemizedlist>
  41 <listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: This tells the
  42 test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively
  43 expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on
  44 Linux.</para></listitem>
  45 </itemizedlist>
  46
  47 <para>And install the package:</para>
  48
  49 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  50
  51 </sect2>
  52
  53 </sect1>