source: BOOK/prologue/common/hostreqs.xml@ a3cdc8b

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<sect1 id="pre-hostreqs">
  <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>

  <title>Host System Requirements</title>

    <para>You should be able to build a CLFS system from just about any
    Unix-type operating system. Your host system should have the following
    software with the minimum versions indicated. Also note that many
    distributions will place software headers into separate packages, often in
    the form of <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote> or
    <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
    your distribution provides them.</para>

  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
    </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>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.1.5</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.1.2</emphasis> and the C++ compiler,
      <command>g++</command> (Versions greater than &gcc-version; are not
      recommended as they have not been tested)</para>
    </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>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.80</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Ncurses-5.3</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.22</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.7</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">XZ Utils-4.999.8beta</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions,
  create and run the following script. Read the output carefully for any
  errors, and make sure to install any packages that are reported as not found.</para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>#!/bin/bash

# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools

bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
bison --version | head -n1
bzip2 --version 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt; /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
diff --version | head -n1
find --version | head -n1
gawk --version | head -n1
gcc --version | head -n1
g++ --version | head -n1
ldd $(which ${SHELL}) | grep libc.so | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | ${SHELL} | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1-7
grep --version | head -n1
gzip --version | head -n1
make --version | head -n1
tic -V
patch --version | head -n1
sed --version | head -n1
tar --version | head -n1
makeinfo --version | head -n1
xz --version | head -n1
echo 'main(){}' | gcc -v -o /dev/null -x c - &gt; dummy.log 2>&amp;1
if ! grep -q ' error' dummy.log; then
  echo "Compilation successful" &amp;&amp; rm dummy.log
else
  echo 1>&amp;2  "Compilation FAILED - more development packages may need to be \
installed. If you like, you can also view dummy.log for more details."
fi</literal>
EOF

bash version-check.sh 2>errors.log &amp;&amp;
[ -s errors.log ] &amp;&amp; echo -e "\nThe following packages could not be found:\n$(cat errors.log)"</userinput></screen>

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