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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></para> |
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43 | </listitem> |
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44 | |
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45 | <listitem> |
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46 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para> |
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47 | </listitem> |
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48 | |
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49 | <listitem> |
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50 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para> |
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51 | </listitem> |
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52 | |
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53 | <listitem> |
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54 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.1.5</emphasis></para> |
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55 | </listitem> |
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56 | |
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57 | <listitem> |
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58 | <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.1.2</emphasis> and the C++ compiler, |
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59 | <command>g++</command> (Versions greater than &gcc-version; are not |
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60 | recommended as they have not been tested)</para> |
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61 | </listitem> |
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62 | |
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63 | <listitem> |
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64 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions |
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65 | greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have |
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66 | not been tested)</para> |
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67 | </listitem> |
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68 | |
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69 | <listitem> |
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70 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para> |
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71 | </listitem> |
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72 | |
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73 | <listitem> |
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74 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para> |
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75 | </listitem> |
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76 | |
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77 | <listitem> |
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78 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux 2.6.32 (Built with GCC 4.1.2 or later)</emphasis></para> |
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79 | </listitem> |
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80 | |
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81 | <listitem> |
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82 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.80</emphasis></para> |
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83 | </listitem> |
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84 | |
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85 | <listitem> |
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86 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Ncurses-5.3</emphasis></para> |
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87 | </listitem> |
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88 | |
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89 | <listitem> |
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90 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para> |
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91 | </listitem> |
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92 | |
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93 | <listitem> |
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94 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para> |
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95 | </listitem> |
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96 | |
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97 | <listitem> |
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98 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.22</emphasis></para> |
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99 | </listitem> |
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100 | |
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101 | <listitem> |
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102 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.7</emphasis></para> |
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103 | </listitem> |
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104 | |
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105 | <listitem> |
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106 | <para><emphasis role="strong">XZ Utils-4.999.8beta</emphasis></para> |
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107 | </listitem> |
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108 | |
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109 | </itemizedlist> |
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110 | |
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111 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, |
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112 | create and run the following script. Read the output carefully for any |
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113 | errors, and make sure to install any packages that are reported as not found.</para> |
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114 | |
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115 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF" |
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116 | <literal>#!/bin/bash |
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117 | |
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118 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools |
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119 | |
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120 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4 |
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121 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3- |
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122 | bison --version | head -n1 |
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123 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6- |
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124 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2 |
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125 | diff --version | head -n1 |
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126 | find --version | head -n1 |
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127 | gawk --version | head -n1 |
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128 | gcc --version | head -n1 |
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129 | g++ --version | head -n1 |
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130 | ldd $(which ${SHELL}) | grep libc.so | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | ${SHELL} | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1-7 |
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131 | grep --version | head -n1 |
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132 | gzip --version | head -n1 |
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133 | uname -s -r |
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134 | make --version | head -n1 |
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135 | tic -V |
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136 | patch --version | head -n1 |
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137 | sed --version | head -n1 |
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138 | tar --version | head -n1 |
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139 | makeinfo --version | head -n1 |
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140 | xz --version | head -n1 |
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141 | echo 'main(){}' | gcc -v -o /dev/null -x c - > dummy.log 2>&1 |
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142 | if ! grep -q ' error' dummy.log; then |
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143 | echo "Compilation successful" && rm dummy.log |
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144 | else |
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145 | echo 1>&2 "Compilation FAILED - more development packages may need to be \ |
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146 | installed. If you like, you can also view dummy.log for more details." |
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147 | fi</literal> |
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148 | EOF |
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149 | |
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150 | bash version-check.sh 2>errors.log && |
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151 | [ -s errors.log ] && echo -e "\nThe following packages could not be found:\n$(cat errors.log)"</userinput></screen> |
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152 | |
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153 | </sect1> |
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