Whois is a client-side application which queries the whois directory service for information pertaining to a particular domain name. This package will install two programs by default: whois and mkpasswd. The mkpasswd command is also installed by the expect package in LFS.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/archive/v5.4.3/whois-5.4.3.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 381dce8db7c6e38ef013b5d6527f494c
Download size: 100 KB
Estimated disk space required: 1.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Build the application with:
make
You can install the whois program, the mkpasswd program, and the locale
files independently. Control your choice of what is installed with
the following commands issued as the root
user:
Installing this version of mkpasswd will overwrite the same command installed in LFS.
make prefix=/usr install-whois make prefix=/usr install-mkpasswd make prefix=/usr install-pos