Changeset d6aaa67 for BOOK/prologue/common/hostreqs.xml

Timestamp:

Nov 13, 2012, 2:22:54 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Branches:

clfs-2.1, clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit

Children:

532a2c4

Parents:

db127375

Message:

Updated Host System Requirements and added compile check

File:

• BOOK/prologue/common/hostreqs.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

BOOK/prologue/common/hostreqs.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
-      Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -110 +109 @@
   </itemizedlist>
 
-  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
+  <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"
@@ -136 +137 @@
 tar --version | head -n1
 makeinfo --version | head -n1
-xz --version | head -n1</literal>
-
+xz --version | head -n1
+echo 'main(){}' | gcc -v -o /dev/null -x c - > dummy.log 2>&amp;1
+if grep -q ' error' dummy.log; then
+  echo "Compilation successful" &amp;&amp; rm dummy.log
+else
+  echo "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