Re: Coreutils Installation prerequisites

[Eric Blake]

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According to Pádraig Brady on 4/23/2009 2:42 AM:
> Manuel Richmond wrote:
>>  I am looking for the Installation prerequisites, any help will be 
>> appreciated
> 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=README-prereq;hb=HEAD
> Note also the bootstrap step documented there will check your system
> for required packages as defined in the buildreq string in bootstrap.conf

That covers the bootstrap prereqs.  If you are starting from a release
tarball, the installation prereqs are much smaller; basically, you only
need the bare minimum of tools specified in the GNU Coding Standards:

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/standards.html#Utilities-in-Makefiles

| The configure script and the Makefile rules for building and
| installation should not use any utilities directly except these:
|
|      awk cat cmp cp diff echo egrep expr false grep install-info
|      ln ls mkdir mv pwd rm rmdir sed sleep sort tar test touch tr true

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/standards.html#Install-Command-Categories

| Pre-installation and post-installation commands should not run any
| programs except for these:
|
|      [ basename bash cat chgrp chmod chown cmp cp dd diff echo
|      egrep expand expr false fgrep find getopt grep gunzip gzip
|      hostname install install-info kill ldconfig ln ls md5sum
|      mkdir mkfifo mknod mv printenv pwd rm rmdir sed sort tee
|      test touch true uname xargs yes

(of which many of them can in fact provided by the just-built coreutils)

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