BOOK/chapter05/findutils-inst.xml

   1 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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   3 <sect2>
   4 <title>Installing Findutils</title>
   5
   6 <para>The Findutils package is quite old and it has problems compiling
   7 against newer Glibc versions (Glibc-2.0.x and up). You need to apply the
   8 patch that fixes some variable conflicts you'd otherwise end up
   9 with:</para>
  10
  11 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
  12
  13 <para>Prepare Findutils to be compiled:</para>
  14
  15 <para><screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS="-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2" \
  16 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static</userinput></screen></para>
  17
  18 <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
  19
  20 <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
  21
  22 <para>And finish off installing the package:</para>
  23
  24 <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
  25
  26 </sect2>