source: clfs-embedded/BOOK/prologue/common/hostreqs.xml@ a0aa1af

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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
    recent Linux distrubtion. 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 4.0</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.20</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.5</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-8.1</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-3.0</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.4.0</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.1</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-4.4</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.6</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.3</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.81</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.6</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.2.1</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.23</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.13</emphasis></para>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</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-
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
ldd $(which ${SHELL}) | grep libc.so | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | ${SHELL} | head -n 1 \
| cut -d ' ' -f 1-10
grep --version | head -n1
gzip --version | head -n1
make --version | head -n1
patch --version | head -n1
sed --version | head -n1
tar --version | head -n1
makeinfo --version | head -n1</literal>

EOF

bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>

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