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| WARNING: THE PROGRAMS IN THIS SUITE DO *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORD FILES! |
| UNLESS YOU USE PAM. |
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| WARNING: THIS COLLECTION CONFLICTS WITH SYSTEM V INITTAB. |
| UNLESS YOU CONFIGURE IT NOT TO. |
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| WARNING: USE GNU TAR -- OTHER TARS WILL FAIL SILENTLY! |
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| WARNING: DO *NOT* INSTALL WITHOUT THINKING. |
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| WARNING: The simpleinit and some other programs in this package are |
| *NOT* System V compliant. These utilities are meant to be |
| used by people who build their own systems. If you are not |
| a wizard, do *NOT* blindly install these utilities: they could |
| prevent you from logging into your system. Have a boot floppy |
| ready, especially if you don't know what you are doing. It's a |
| great way to learn though ;-) |
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| To install from source: |
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| 1) Get source distribution (see the .lsm file for locations) |
| 2) Untar util-linux-2.10X.tar.gz somewhere |
| 3) cd util-linux-2.10X |
| 4) Edit MCONFIG |
| 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. |
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| If you have compilation problems: tell util-linux@math.uio.no about it. |
| |
| A glibc header bug causes |
| /usr/include/bits/string2.h:419: warning: pointer of type `void *' |
| used in arithmetic |
| This is harmless. |
| |
| Users of libc5 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. |
| |
| Several old libc have complaints like |
| /usr/include/sys/syslog.h:71: warning: missing braces around initializer |
| /usr/include/rpc/xdr.h:103: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype |
| /usr/include/rpc/auth.h:86: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype |
| /usr/include/rpc/svc.h:79: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype |
| Also this is a libc/include problem. |
| |
| Warnings like |
| <sys/mman.h>:11: warning: `MAP_FILE' redefined |
| <asm/mman.h>:30: warning: this is the location of the previous definition |
| are caused by the libc/kernel combination. |
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| All such warnings are harmless. |
| There should be no compilation errors. |
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| If you have runtime problems: |
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| - with non-ASCII characters: perhaps you forgot to set LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL? |
| (For example, in Norway one can say LC_ALL=no_NO; export LC_ALL and |
| then various utilities will treat Scandinavian non-ASCII letters as |
| letters.) |
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| otherwise: tell util-linux@math.uio.no about it. |
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