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4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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5 | %general-entities;
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6 | ]>
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7 |
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8 | <sect1 id="pre-hostreqs">
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9 | <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
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10 |
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11 | <title>Host System Requirements</title>
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12 |
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13 | <para>You should be able to build a CLFS system from just about any
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14 | Unix-type operating system. Your host system should have the following
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15 | software with the minimum versions indicated. Also note that many
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16 | distributions will place software headers into separate packages, often in
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17 | the form of <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote> or
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18 | <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
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19 | your distribution provides them.</para>
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20 |
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21 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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22 |
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23 | <listitem>
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24 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
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25 | </listitem>
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26 |
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27 | <listitem>
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28 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
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29 | greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
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30 | not been tested)</para>
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31 | </listitem>
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32 |
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33 | <listitem>
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34 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bison-1.875</emphasis></para>
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35 | </listitem>
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36 |
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37 | <listitem>
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38 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
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39 | </listitem>
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40 |
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41 | <listitem>
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42 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
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43 | Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
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44 | </listitem>
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45 |
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46 | <listitem>
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47 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
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48 | </listitem>
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49 |
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50 | <listitem>
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51 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
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52 | </listitem>
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53 |
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54 | <listitem>
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55 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
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56 | </listitem>
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57 |
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58 | <listitem>
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59 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
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60 | greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
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61 | been tested)</para>
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62 | </listitem>
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63 |
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64 | <listitem>
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65 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
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66 | greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
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67 | not been tested)</para>
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68 | </listitem>
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69 |
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70 | <listitem>
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71 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
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72 | </listitem>
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73 |
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74 | <listitem>
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75 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
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76 | </listitem>
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77 |
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78 | <listitem>
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79 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
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80 | </listitem>
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81 |
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82 | <listitem>
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83 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Ncurses-5.3</emphasis></para>
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84 | </listitem>
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85 |
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86 | <listitem>
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87 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
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88 | </listitem>
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89 |
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90 | <listitem>
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91 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
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92 | </listitem>
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93 |
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94 | <listitem>
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95 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
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96 | </listitem>
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97 |
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98 | </itemizedlist>
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99 |
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100 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
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101 |
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102 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
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103 | <literal>#!/bin/bash
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104 |
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105 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
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106 |
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107 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
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108 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
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109 | bison --version | head -n1
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110 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
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111 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
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112 | diff --version | head -n1
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113 | find --version | head -n1
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114 | gawk --version | head -n1
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115 | gcc --version | head -n1
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116 | /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
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117 | grep --version | head -n1
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118 | gzip --version | head -n1
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119 | make --version | head -n1
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120 | tic -V
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121 | patch --version | head -n1
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122 | sed --version | head -n1
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123 | tar --version | head -n1</literal>
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124 |
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125 | EOF
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126 |
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127 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
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128 |
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129 | </sect1>
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