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Alex Gronenwoud 5888299528 Moving stuff from appendix A to chapter 6.
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<sect1 id="ch05-coreutils">
<title>Installing Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="coreutils.html" dir="chapter05"?>
<screen>Estimated build time: &coreutils-time-tools;
Estimated required disk space: &coreutils-compsize-tools;</screen>
<literallayout>Official download location for Coreutils (&coreutils-version;):
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/"/></literallayout>
&aa-coreutils-dep;
<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
<para>Prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
following command will do so:</para>
<screen><userinput>make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check</userinput></screen>
<para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><userinput>RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes</userinput>: This tells the
test suite to run several additional tests that are considered relatively
expensive on some platforms. However, they are generally not a problem on
Linux.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>And install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para>
<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-coreutils"/>.</para>
<para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
</sect1>