From 2b9f7514dab741b774a1bb3c5099c72e1c833efe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Utley Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:21:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added --disable-whois --disable-servers to Inetutils git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2713 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml index 75196e76a..ac8dd0b27 100644 --- a/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/inetutils-inst.xml @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-syslogd \     --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --disable-logger \ -    --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var +    --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \ +    --disable-whois --disable-servers The meaning of the configure options: @@ -25,6 +26,15 @@ because Util-linux installs a better version later. --sysconfdir=/etc: This option tells the binaries created by the package to look in /etc for their configuration files + +--disable-whois: This option disables +the building of the inetutils whois client, which is woefully out of date. +Instructions for a better whois client are in the BLFS book. + +--disable-servers: This disables the +compilation of the various server utilities included as part of the Inetutils +package. Many of these have known security vulnerabilities, and for most there +are better replacements. Compile the package: