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Please see the file INSTALL for generic build and installation instructions.
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This file details coreutils and system specific build instructions.
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Pre-C99 build failure
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In 2009 we added this requirement:
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To build the coreutils from source, you must have a C99-conforming
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compiler, due to the use of declarations after non-declaration statements
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in several files in src/. There is code in configure to find and, if
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possible, enable an appropriate compiler. However, if configure doesn't
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find a C99 compiler, it continues nonetheless, and your build will fail.
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There used to be a "c99-to-c89.diff" patch you could apply to convert
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to code that even an old pre-c99 compiler can handle, but it was too
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tedious to maintain, so has been removed.
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***********************
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HPUX 11.x build failure
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A known problem exists when compiling on HPUX on both hppa and ia64
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in 64-bit mode (i.e., +DD64) on HP-UX 11.0, 11.11, and 11.23. This
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is not due to a bug in the package but instead due to a bug in the
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system header file which breaks things in 64-bit mode. The default
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compilation mode is 32-bit and the software compiles fine using the
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default mode. To build this software in 64-bit mode you will need
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to fix the system /usr/include/inttypes.h header file. After
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correcting that file the software also compiles fine in 64-bit mode.
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Here is one possible patch to correct the problem:
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--- /usr/include/inttypes.h.orig Thu May 30 01:00:00 1996
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+++ /usr/include/inttypes.h Sun Mar 23 00:20:36 2003
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@@ -489 +489 @@
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-#ifndef __STDC_32_MODE__
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+#ifndef __LP64__
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OSF/1 4.0d and AIX build failures
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If you use /usr/bin/make on these systems, the build will fail due
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to the presence of the "[" target. OSF/1 make(1) appears to
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treat "[" as some syntax relating to locks, while AIX make(1)
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appears to skip the "[" target. To work around these issues
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the best solution is to use GNU make. Otherwise, simply remove
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all mention of "[$(EXEEXT)" from src/Makefile.
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32 bit time_t build failures
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Although 32-bit builds fail if that forces time_t to be 32 bits, this
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can be fixed by using 64-bit builds. For example, on AIX where GCC
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defaults to 32 bits, one can use "./configure CC='gcc -maix64' AR='ar
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-X64'"; similarly, on Solaris one can configure with CC='gcc -m64'.
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If all else fails one can configure with --disable-year2038;
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however, this will mishandle timestamps after 2038, and please file
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bug reports for any such situations.
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"make check" failure on IRIX 6.5 and Solaris <= 9
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Using the vendor make program to run "make check" fails on these two systems.
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If you want to run all of the tests there, use GNU make.
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Running tests as root:
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----------------------
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If you run the tests as root, note that a few of them create files
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and/or run programs as a non-root user, 'nobody' by default.
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If you want to use some other non-root username, specify it via
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the NON_ROOT_USERNAME environment variable. Depending on the
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permissions with which the working directories have been created,
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using 'nobody' may fail, because that user won't have the required
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read and write access to the build and test directories.
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I find that it is best to unpack and build as a non-privileged
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user, and then to run the following command as that user in order
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to run the privilege-requiring tests:
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sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k check-root
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If you can run the tests as root, please do so and report any
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problems. We get much less test coverage in that mode, and it's
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arguably more important that these tools work well when run by
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root than when run by less privileged users.
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autotools considerations:
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----------------------
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WARNING: Now that we use the ./bootstrap script, you should not run
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autoreconf manually. Doing that will overwrite essential source files
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with older versions, which may make the package unbuildable or introduce
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subtle bugs.
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WARNING: If you modify files like configure.in, m4/*.m4, aclocal.m4,
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or any Makefile.am, then don't be surprised if what gets regenerated no
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longer works. To make things work, you'll have to be using appropriate
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versions of the tools listed in bootstrap.conf's buildreq string.
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