6.58. Installing Util-linux-2.12

6.58.1. Contents of Util-linux

The Util-linux package contains a number of miscellaneous utility programs. Some of the more prominent utilities are used to mount, unmount, format, partition and manage disk drives, open tty ports and fetch kernel messages.

Installed programs: agetty, arch, blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chkdupexe, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate, dmesg, elvtune, fdformat, fdisk, fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, getopt, hexdump, hwclock, ipcrm, ipcs, isosize, kill, line, logger, look, losetup, mcookie, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei, parse.bash, parse.tcsh, pg, pivot_root, ramsize (link to rdev), raw, rdev, readprofile, rename, renice, rev, rootflags (link to rdev), script, setfdprm, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, swapoff (link to swapon), swapon, test.bash, test.tcsh, tunelp, ul, umount, vidmode (link to rdev), whereis and write

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6.58.3. Util-linux Installation Dependencies

Util-linux depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, Zlib.

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6.58.5. FHS compliance notes

The FHS recommends that we use /var/lib/hwclock, instead of the usual /etc, as the location for the adjtime file. To make the hwclock program FHS-compliant, run the following:

cp hwclock/hwclock.c{,.backup}
sed 's%etc/adjtime%var/lib/hwclock/adjtime%' \
    hwclock/hwclock.c.backup > hwclock/hwclock.c
mkdir -p /var/lib/hwclock

6.58.6. Installation of Util-linux

Prepare Util-linux for compilation:

./configure

Compile the package:

make HAVE_SLN=yes

The meaning of the make parameter:

• HAVE_SLN=yes: This prevents the sln program (a statically linked ln, already installed by Glibc) from being built again.

And install the package:

make HAVE_SLN=yes install