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Revised again the Host System Requirements page wording and look.

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Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch.

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chapter01/changelog.xml
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-->
<listitem>
<para>April 22, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch..</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>April 21, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060421">
<!ENTITY releasedate "April 21, 2006">
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060422">
<!ENTITY releasedate "April 22, 2006">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->

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place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
<quote>&lt;package-name&gt;-devel</quote> or
<quote>&lt;package-name&gt;-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
your distribution provides them. For each package a command has been
added to help you to determine what version is installed on your
host.</para>
your distribution provides them.</para>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>bash --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
not been tested)</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ld --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>bzip2 --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>chonw --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>diff --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>find --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gawk --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
been tested)</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gcc --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
not been tested)</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>/lib/libc.so.6</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gzip --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
(having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
(having been compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater)</para>
<para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
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isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
GCC.</para>
<para>In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the requirements
outlined above, run the following command:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /proc/version</userinput></screen>
<para>This will produce output similar to:</para>
<screen><computeroutput>Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1
Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004</computeroutput></screen>
<para>If the results of the above command do not state that the host
kernel is either 2.6.x, or that it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0
(or later) compiler, you will have to replace the kernel with one
adhering to the specifications. There are two methods you can take
<para>If the host kernel is either 2.6.x, or it was not compiled using
a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will have to replace the kernel with
one adhering to the specifications. There are two methods you can take
to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6 kernel
package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor doesn't
offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it,
then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling
the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB)
are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor doesn't offer
a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it, then you
can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the kernel
and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are located
in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>patch --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tar --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>To see all the appropriate versions, copy the following script
to your system and run it.</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>#!/bin/bash
# Simple script to list version numbers of critical developmet tools
bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4
bzip2 --version 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt; /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f4
diff --version | head -n1
find --version | head -n1
gawk --version | head -n1
gcc --version | head -n1
/lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
grep --version | head -n1
gzip --version | head -n1
cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7
make --version | head -n1
patch --version | head -n1
sed --version | head -n1
tar --version | head -n1</literal>
EOF
bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
</sect1>

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ul[compact="compact"] li {
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin: 0em;
padding: 0em;
}
ul[compact="compact"] li p {
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margin: 0em;
}
ul[compact="compact"] .strong {
font-size: 133%;
}
/*table */
div.table {