lfs/chapter06/lfs-utils.xml

<sect1 id="ch-system-lfs-utils" xreflabel="Lfs-Utils">
<title>Installing Lfs-Utils-&lfs-utils-version;</title>
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<para>The Lfs-Utils package contains a few helper files.</para>

<screen>&buildtime; &lfs-utils-time;
&diskspace; &lfs-utils-compsize;</screen>

&aa-lfs-utils-down;
&aa-lfs-utils-dep;

<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Lfs-Utils</title>

<para>Prepare Lfs-Utils for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libc</userinput></screen>

<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>--with-libc</userinput>: This causes the
<command>mktemp</command> program to use the <emphasis>mkstemp</emphasis>
and <emphasis>mkdtemp</emphasis> functions from the system C
library.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>And install it:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

<para>Now copy two supporting files included in the Lfs-Utils tarball to
their destination:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp etc/{services,protocols} /etc</userinput></screen>

<para>The <filename>/etc/services</filename> file is used to resolve service
numbers to human-readable names, and the <filename>/etc/protocols</filename>
does the same for protocol numbers.</para>

</sect2>

&aa-lfs-utils-shortdesc;
&aa-lfs-utils-desc;

</sect1>