Chapter 6. Installing basic system software

Table of Contents
Introduction
About debugging symbols
Creating $LFS/root/.bash_profile
Entering the chroot'ed environment
Installing Glibc-2.2.4
Creating devices (Makedev-1.3)
Installing Man-pages-1.39
Installing Findutils-4.1
Installing Mawk-1.3.3
Installing Ncurses-5.2
Installing Vim-5.8
Installing GCC-2.95.3
Installing Bison-1.28
Installing Less-358
Installing Groff-1.17.2
Installing Man-1.5i2
Installing Perl-5.6.1
Installing M4-1.4
Installing Texinfo-4.0
Installing Autoconf-2.52
Installing Automake-1.5
Installing Bash-2.05
Installing Flex-2.5.4a
Installing File-3.36
Installing Libtool-1.4
Installing Bin86-0.16.0
Installing Binutils-2.11.2
Installing Bzip2-1.0.1
Installing Ed-0.2
Installing Gettext-0.10.39
Installing Kbd-1.06
Installing Diffutils-2.7
Installing E2fsprogs-1.23
Installing Fileutils-4.1
Installing Grep-2.4.2
Installing Gzip-1.2.4a
Installing Lilo-21.7.5
Installing Make-3.79.1
Installing Modutils-2.4.7
Installing Netkit-base-0.17
Installing Patch-2.5.4
Installing Procinfo-18
Installing Procps-2.0.7
Installing Psmisc-20.1
Installing Sed-3.02
Installing Sh-utils-2.0
Installing Net-tools-1.60
Installing Shadow-20001016
Installing Sysklogd-1.4.1
Installing Sysvinit-2.82
Installing Tar-1.13
Installing Textutils-2.0
Installing Util-linux-2.11h
Removing old NSS library files
Configuring essential software

Introduction

The installation of all the software is pretty straightforward and you will probably think it's so much easier and shorter to give the generic installation instructions for each package and only explain how to install something if a certain package requires an alternate installation method. Although I agree on that, I choose to give the full instructions for each and every package. This is simply to avoid any possible confusion and errors.

Now would be a good time to take a look at the optimization hint at http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/optimization.txt if you plan on using compiler optimization for the packages installed in the following chapter. Compiler optimization can make a program run faster, but may also cause some compilation problems. If you run into problems after having used optimization, always try it without optimizing to see if you can reproduce the problem.