Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 4/21/06, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> I rewrote this page. Tell me what you think.
>>>
>>> http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/lfs-book/prologue/hostreqs.html
>> Nice, Bruce. I think it's excellent. :)
>
> +1. Nice job, Bruce.
Thanks.
Manuel, a patch is attached. You may want to look at the tagging and
css to do the same effects another way.
-- Bruce
Index: prologue/hostreqs.xml
===================================================================
--- prologue/hostreqs.xml (revision 7557)
+++ prologue/hostreqs.xml (working copy)
@@ -16,88 +16,64 @@
place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
<quote><package-name>-devel</quote> or
<quote><package-name>-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
- your distribution provides them. For each package a command has been
- added to help you to determine what version is installed on your
- host.</para>
+ your distribution provides them.</para>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>bash --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Bash-2.05a</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Binutils-2.12</wordasword> (Versions
greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
not been tested)</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ld --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>bzip2 --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</wordasword> (or
Sh-Utils-2.0,
Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>chonw --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>diff --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>find --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gawk --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Gawk-3.0</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</wordasword> (Versions
greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
been tested)</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gcc --version</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</wordasword> (Versions
greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
not been tested)</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>/lib/libc.so.6</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Grep-2.5</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gzip --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
- (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</wordasword>
+ (having been compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater)</para>
<para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
@@ -105,18 +81,8 @@
isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
GCC.</para>
- <para>In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the
requirements
- outlined above, run the following command:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /proc/version</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>This will produce output similar to:</para>
-
-<screen><computeroutput>Linux version 2.6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
3.4.0) #1
- Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004</computeroutput></screen>
-
- <para>If the results of the above command do not state that the host
- kernel is either 2.6.x, or that it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0
+ <para>If the host
+ kernel is either 2.6.x, or it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0
(or later) compiler, you will have to replace the kernel with one
adhering to the specifications. There are two methods you can take
to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6 kernel
@@ -128,29 +94,50 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Make-3.79.1</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>patch --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tar --version</userinput></screen>
+ <para><wordasword role="strong">Tar-1.14</wordasword></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+ <para>To see all the appropriate versions, copy the following script
+ to your system and run it.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Simple script to list version numbers of critical developmet tools
+
+bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
+echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4
+bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
+echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f4
+diff --version | head -n1
+find --version | head -n1
+gawk --version | head -n1
+gcc --version | head -n1
+/lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-7
+grep --version | head -n1
+gzip --version | head -n1
+cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7
+make --version | head -n1
+patch --version | head -n1
+sed --version | head -n1
+tar --version | head -n1
+
+EOF
+
+bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
+
</sect1>
Index: stylesheets/lfs.css
===================================================================
--- stylesheets/lfs.css (revision 7557)
+++ stylesheets/lfs.css (working copy)
@@ -272,19 +272,23 @@
list-style: none;
}
-ul[compact="compact"] li {
- margin-bottom: 1em;
-}
-
ul[compact="compact"] li p {
padding: 0.3em;
margin: 0em;
}
-ul[compact="compact"] .strong {
- font-size: 133%;
+em.wordasword {
+ font-size: medium;
+ font-style: normal;
+ font-weight: bold;
}
+ul[compact="compact"] li {
+ /* border: solid 1px red; */
+ margin: 0em;
+ padding: 0em;
+}
+
/*table */
div.table {
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