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| author | Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | 2006-12-07 00:25:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | 2006-12-07 00:25:39 +0100 |
| commit | 7eda085c41faa3445b4b168ce78ab18dab87d98a (patch) | |
| tree | eb8da4baebd0af68fa84818d3d51b4a3714667fc /INSTALL | |
| parent | 5c36a0eb7cdb0360f9afd5d747c321f423b35984 (diff) | |
| download | util-linux-old-7eda085c41faa3445b4b168ce78ab18dab87d98a.tar.gz | |
Imported from util-linux-2.9v tarball.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 31 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -21,29 +21,32 @@ WARNING: The simpleinit and some other programs in this package are To install from source: 1) Get source distribution (see the .lsm file for locations) -2) Untar util-linux-2.9.tar.gz somewhere -3) cd util-linux-2.9 +2) Untar util-linux-2.9X.tar.gz somewhere +3) cd util-linux-2.9X 4) Edit MCONFIG -5) make -6) make install -7) If you want to use simpleinit and agetty, then make softlinks from +5) ./configure +6) Look at defines.h and make_include, and edit if necessary +7) make +8) make install +9) If you want to use simpleinit and agetty, then make softlinks from /sbin/init to simpleinit and from /sbin/getty to agetty, but make sure that your /etc/inittab is set up right (this is *NOT* the System V compatible init!), or you will be hosed. If you are using the SysV init and/or some other getty, they you can keep using those. -If you have compilation problems: +If you have compilation problems: tell util-linux@math.uio.no about it. -- with -lcrypt: you forgot to edit MCONFIG and write HAVE_LIBCRYPT=no. -- in cfdisk or setterm: you forgot to edit MCONFIG and write HAVE_NCURSES=no - (or you forgot to write CURSESFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncurses -DNCH=0)? -- in fdisksunlabel.c: change #if 1 into #if 0 if there is no <scsi/scsi.h>. -- in mount/nfsmount.c: change #if 1 into #if 0 if there is no inet_aton(). -- in sys-utils/ipcs.c: change #if 0 into #if 1 if <linux/linkage.h> is needed. -- in sys-utils/cytune.c: change #if 0 into #if 1 if <linux/tqueue.h> is needed. +Users of libc 5.4.46 may get warnings like + /usr/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:100: warning: no previous prototype for `__fswab16' +that they'll have to ignore. The Linux kernel includes are not meant to be included +in user programs, but libc5 does precisely that and is inherently broken. -elsewhere: tell util-linux@math.uio.no about it. +Some old libc have complaints like + /usr/include/sys/syslog.h:71: warning: missing braces around initializer +Also this is a libc/include problem. + +There should be no compilation errors. If you have runtime problems: |