../configure
- If you wish to turn on DLL shared libraries, add the option
-flag --enable-dll-shlibs. If you wish to turn on ELF shared
-libraries, add the option --enable-elf-shlibs. If you wish to build
-profiling libraries, add the option --enable-profile.
+ If you wish to turn on ELF shared libraries, add the option
+--enable-elf-shlibs. If you wish to build profiling libraries, add
+the option --enable-profile.
+
+ Note that if you are building on an older system (i.e., a 2.4
+kernel and/or glibc 2.2), the use of thread local storage will probably
+cause programs that use the uuid library to core dump. To disable
+thread local storage, use the configure option --disable-tls.
4) Compile the programs
make
-5) Install the programs
+5) Check to make sure the installation built correctly:
+
+ make check
+
+6) Install the programs
Run `make install'
-6) Install the include files and libraries
+7) Install the include files and libraries
You can run `make install-libs' to install the include files and
libraries. Please note that this installation is not needed for the
programs using the libraries or if you want to compile other program
using these libraries (like the 4.4BSD dump and restore port).
-7) Remove any pre-formatted man pages.
+8) Remove any pre-formatted man pages.
Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which
will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man.
see the correct manual pages. The shell script in
install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so.
-8) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct.
+9) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct.
Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the
fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump
this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing
fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that
fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in
-your /etc/fstab file look liks this:
+your /etc/fstab file look like this:
/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults