Installing Findutils-4.1.20

Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
Required disk space:     7.6 MB

Official download location for Findutils (4.1.20):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/

For its installation Findutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

Installation of Findutils

Prepare Findutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the package:

make

As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Findutils test suite anyway, the following command will do so:

make check

And install the package:

make install

The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Findutils in Chapter 6.