Estimated build time: 3 minutes Estimated required disk space: 25 MB
The programs from a statically linked fileutils package may cause segmentation faults on certain systems, if your distribution has Glibc-2.2.3 or higher installed. It also seems to happen mostly on machines powered by an AMD CPU, but there is a case or two where an Intel system is affected as well. If your system falls under this category, try the following fix.
Note that in some cases using these sed commands will result in problems not being able to compile this at package at all, even when your system has and AMD CPU and has Glibc-2.2.3 (or higher) installed. If that's the case, you'll need to remove the fileutils-4.1 directory and unpack it again from the tarball before continuing. We believe this may be the case when your distribution has altered Glibc-2.2.3 somehow, but details are unavailable at the time.
To fix this package to compile properly on AMD/Glibc-2.2.3 machines, run the following commands. Do not attempt this fix if you don't have Glibc-2.2.3 installed. It will more than likely result in all kinds of compile time problems.
cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup && sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(fopen-safer\.c \)\\/\1\2atexit.c \\/' \ -e 's/\(.*\)\(idcache\$U\.\$.*\)\\/\1\2atexit$U.$(OBJEXT) \\/' \ lib/Makefile.in > lib/Makefile.in~ && mv lib/Makefile.in~ lib/Makefile.in
Install fileutils by running the following commands:
./configure --disable-nls \ --prefix=$LFS/usr --libexecdir=$LFS/bin --bindir=$LFS/bin && make LDFLAGS=-static && make install && cd $LFS/usr/bin && ln -sf ../../bin/install
Once you have installed fileutils, you can test whether the segmentation fault problem has been avoided by running $LFS/bin/ls. If this works, then you are OK. If not, then you need to re-do the installation using the sed commands if you didn't use them, or without the sed commands if you did use them.
cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup : We run this command in order to keep a backup of the file we are about to change.
cp lib/Makefile.in lib/Makefile.in.backup && sed -e 's/\(.*\)\(fopen-safer\.c \)\\/\1\2atexit.c \\/' \ -e 's/\(.*\)\(idcache\$U\.\$.*\)\\/\1\2atexit$U.$(OBJEXT) \\/' \ lib/Makefile.in > lib/Makefile.in~ && mv lib/Makefile.in~ lib/Makefile.in:This is used to fix a problem with building fileutils statically on glibc 2.2.3 systems. If this isn't done, then there is the possibility of all of the fileutils programs causing segmentation faults once chroot is entered in chapter 6.
--libexecdir=$LFS/bin: This configure option will set the program executable directory to $LFS/bin. This is normally set to /usr/libexec, but nothing is placed in it. Changing it just prevents that directory from being created.
The Fileutils package contains the chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, sync, touch and vdir programs.
chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group, which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.
chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.
chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file.
cp copies files from one place to another.
dd copies a file (from the standard input to the standard output, by default) with a user-selectable blocksize, while optionally performing conversions on it.
df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown.
dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats. These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents are sorted alphabetically. For ls, files are by default listed in columns, sorted vertically, if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they are listed one per line. For dir, files are by default listed in columns, sorted vertically. For vdir, files are by default listed in long format.
dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable. The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by ls and related utilities.
du displays the amount of disk space used by each argument and for each subdirectory of directory arguments.
install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible, their owner and group.
ln makes hard or soft (symbolic) links between files.
mkdir creates directories with a given name.
mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.
mknod creates a FIFO, character special file, or block special file with the given file name.
mv moves files from one directory to another or renames files, depending on the arguments given to mv.
rm removes files or directories.
rmdir removes directories, if they are empty.
shred deletes a file securely, overwriting it first so that its contents can't be recovered.
sync forces changed blocks to disk and updates the super block.
touch changes the access and modification times of each given file to the current time. Files that do not exist are created empty.
Fileutils-4.1 needs the following to be installed:
sh from the bash package
ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
cmp from the diffutils package
chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
install from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package
cc from the gcc package
egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package
make from the make package
sed from the sed package
basename from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package
cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package
uniq from the textutils package