Re: Building coreutils in Linux From Scratch

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:56, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/coreutils-5.97-unam
>e-1.patch changes the output of `uname -i' and `uname -p' from 'unknown' to
> the correct platform and processor respectively on x86 machines running
> Linux.  I don't expect you to apply the patch as-is (I'm pretty certain the
> comment of "major hack" would be enough to see to that!).  What would be
> the preferred method of seeing the -i and -p flags of uname produce correct
> output on x86-linux machines?  I'm assuming it needs either kernel or glibc
> cooperation?

ugh, awful ... why not use something like:
http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/coreutils/6.1/generic/003_all_coreutils-gentoo-uname.patch
then you go from being just x86 specific to linux specific ...

> :-)  In an ideal world, it might be nice to have '--disable-[progname]'

that gets a pain to maintain real fast due to the explosion of options ... 
maybe a more generic option:
--disable-programs=uptime,kill,su
and then use that to mung the program list in src/Makefile.am ...

> We also perform `sed -i 's/_LEN 6/_LEN 20/' src/who.c` with the
> following explanation:

that should be fixed sanely now (since like 5.97 i think)
-mike

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