Coreutils 8.29

[William Harrington]

New Version

​http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz

[Martin Ward]

Patch is needed to cross compile , I used one of the gentoo patches plus there fix set -- man/*.x touch ${@/%x/1}

[William Harrington]

Do we even require the uname patch anymore? I haven't been using it.

I didn't see a reason to use config.cache for:

fu_cv_sys_stat_statfs2_bsize=yes
gl_cv_func_working_mkstemp=yes

Can anyone confirm?

[William Harrington]

Do we want to use the i18n patch LFS uses for coreutils?

[William Harrington]

Disable a test which fails with current version of Perl:

sed -i '/tests\/misc\/sort.pl/ d' Makefile.in

[William Harrington]

Move chroot man page to man8:

mv -v /usr/share/man/man1/chroot.1 /usr/share/man/man8/chroot.8
sed -i s/\"1\"/\"8\"/1 /usr/share/man/man8/chroot.8

[William Harrington]

Possibly move the following if users have scripts that require them in the /bin directory:

mv -v /usr/bin/{head,sleep,nice,test,[} /bin

[William Harrington]

Replying to blackadder:

Patch is needed to cross compile , I used one of the gentoo patches plus there fix set -- man/*.x touch ${@/%x/1}

Confirmed. For Ch6 Coreutils we will need the noman patch and add:

set -- man/*.x
touch ${@/%x/1}

It built and installed without issue with i386 for x86_64.

[William Harrington]

Replying to kb0iic:

Do we even require the uname patch anymore? I haven't been using it.

I didn't see a reason to use config.cache for:

fu_cv_sys_stat_statfs2_bsize=yes
gl_cv_func_working_mkstemp=yes

Can anyone confirm?

I confirm for a multilib build from a 32 bit host.

[William Harrington]

For chapter 6 we do the following:

set -- man/*.x
touch ${@/%x/1}
patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-8.24-noman-1.patch 
./configure --prefix=/tools --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} --enable-install-program=hostname
make
make install

[Martin Ward]

Replying to kb0iic:

For chapter 6 we do the following:

set -- man/*.x
touch ${@/%x/1}
patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-8.24-noman-1.patch 
./configure --prefix=/tools --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} --enable-install-program=hostname
make
make install

Confirmed, works fine.

[chris@…]

Coreutils 8.25 is now out.

[William Harrington]

For tools ch6 Coreutils 8.25, we can remove the noman patch and use the following sed command which Aaediwen found:

sed -i -e 's/^man1_MANS/#man1_MANS/' Makefile