1 Detailed below are concrete examples for
2 getting the prerequisites for particular systems.
6 This shows the steps for getting the tools required to build coreutils
7 on a Fedora 8 system. We try to use official packages where possible.
8 The three methods described for making these required packages available
9 should help clarify build requirements on GNU/Linux systems.
11 1. Make sure the official distro git package is installed:
14 2. The distro autoconf is too old, but there is a newer one available
15 so we rebuild that and make it available to the full system:
16 # yum install emacs #autoconf build requires emacs (20MB)
17 # rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm
18 # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
19 Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11 in step 3.
20 Apply the same method to build and install "xz".
22 3. The latest stable automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download
23 and build automake-1.11 or newer from its repository and make it available
25 # yum install help2man #required to build automake fully
26 $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
28 $ git checkout -b branch-1.11 --track origin/branch-1.11
30 $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
33 Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking
34 as long as $PATH starts with $HOME/coreutils/deps/bin, which
35 one can set for the current shell like:
36 $ export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH