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   7 <title>Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
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  11 <primary sortas="a-Coreutils">Coreutils</primary>
  12 <secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
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  22 <sect2>
  23 <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
  24
  25 <para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
  26
  27 <screen><userinput>DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 ./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
  28
  29 <para>This package has an issue when compiled against versions of glibc
  30 later than 2.3.2.  Some of the Coreutils utilities (such as
  31 (<command>head</command>, <command>tail</command> and <command>sort</command>)
  32 will reject their traditional syntax, a syntax that has been in use for
  33 approximately 30 years. This old syntax is so pervasive that compatibility
  34 should be preserved until the many places where it is used can be
  35 updated.  Backwards compatibility is achieved by setting the
  36 DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable to &quot;199209&quot; in the above
  37 command.  If you don&apos;t want coreutils to be backwards compatible
  38 with the traditional syntax, then simply omit setting the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION
  39 environment variable.  Realise though, that doing so will mean you&apos;ll have
  40 to deal with the consequences yourself: patch the many packages that still use
  41 the old syntax.  We therefore recommend using the instructions exactly as given
  42 above.</para>
  43
  44 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  45
  46 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  47
  48 <para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue:
  49 <userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput>. The
  50 <emphasis>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</emphasis> parameter tells the test suite to
  51 run several additional tests that are considered relatively expensive on some
  52 platforms but generally are not a problem on Linux.)</para>
  53
  54 <para>And install the package:</para>
  55
  56 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  57
  58 </sect2>
  59
  60 <sect2><title> </title><para> </para>
  61 <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
  62 <para> </para></sect2>
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