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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 | recent Linux distrubtion. 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 4.0</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-2.20</emphasis></para> |
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29 | </listitem> |
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30 | |
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31 | <listitem> |
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32 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.5</emphasis></para> |
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33 | </listitem> |
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34 | |
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35 | <listitem> |
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36 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-8.1</emphasis></para> |
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37 | </listitem> |
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38 | |
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39 | <listitem> |
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40 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-3.0</emphasis></para> |
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41 | </listitem> |
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42 | |
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43 | <listitem> |
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44 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.4.0</emphasis></para> |
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45 | </listitem> |
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46 | |
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47 | <listitem> |
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48 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.1</emphasis></para> |
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49 | </listitem> |
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50 | |
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51 | <listitem> |
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52 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-4.4</emphasis></para> |
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53 | </listitem> |
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54 | |
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55 | <listitem> |
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56 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis></para> |
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57 | </listitem> |
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58 | |
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59 | <listitem> |
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60 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.6</emphasis></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">Gzip-1.3</emphasis></para> |
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65 | </listitem> |
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66 | |
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67 | <listitem> |
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68 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.81</emphasis></para> |
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69 | </listitem> |
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70 | |
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71 | <listitem> |
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72 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.6</emphasis></para> |
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73 | </listitem> |
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74 | |
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75 | <listitem> |
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76 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.2.1</emphasis></para> |
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77 | </listitem> |
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78 | |
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79 | <listitem> |
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80 | <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.23</emphasis></para> |
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81 | </listitem> |
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82 | |
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83 | </itemizedlist> |
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84 | |
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85 | <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para> |
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86 | |
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87 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF" |
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88 | <literal>#!/bin/bash |
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89 | |
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90 | # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools |
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91 | |
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92 | bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4 |
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93 | echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3- |
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94 | bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6- |
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95 | echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2 |
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96 | diff --version | head -n1 |
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97 | find --version | head -n1 |
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98 | gawk --version | head -n1 |
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99 | gcc --version | head -n1 |
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100 | ldd $(which ${SHELL}) | grep libc.so | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | ${SHELL} | head -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1-7 |
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101 | grep --version | head -n1 |
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102 | gzip --version | head -n1 |
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103 | make --version | head -n1 |
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104 | patch --version | head -n1 |
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105 | sed --version | head -n1 |
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106 | tar --version | head -n1</literal> |
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107 | |
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108 | EOF |
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109 | |
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110 | bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen> |
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111 | |
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112 | </sect1> |
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