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Detailed below are concrete examples for
getting the prerequisites for particular systems.
- GNU/Linux - fedora
This shows the steps for getting the required tools to build coreutils
on a Fedora 8 system. We try to use official packages where possible.
The 3 methods described for making these required packages available, should
help clarify build requirements on any GNU/Linux system at least.
1. Make sure offical distro git package is installed
# yum install git
2. The distro autoconf is too old, but there is a newer one available
so we rebuild that and make it available to the full system:
# yum install emacs #autoconf build requires emacs (20MB)
# rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11 in step 3.
Apply the same method to build and install "xz".
3. The latest stable automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download
and build automake-1.11 or newer from its repository and make it available
just to coreutils:
# yum install help2man #required to build automake fully
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
$ cd automake
$ git checkout -b branch-1.11 --track origin/branch-1.11
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
$ make install
Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking
as long as $PATH starts with $HOME/coreutils/deps/bin, which
one can set for the current shell like:
$ export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH
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