Installing Findutils-4.1.20

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  7.5 MB

Contents of Findutils

(Last checked against version 4.1.20.)

The Findutils package contains programs to find files, either on-the-fly (by doing a live recursive search through directories and only showing files that match the specifications) or by searching through a database.

Installed programs: bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb and xargs

Findutils Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 4.1.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, cp, date, echo, hostname, install, mv, rm, tr
Diffutils: cmp
Grep: egrep, grep
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp, gcc
Make: make
Patch: patch
Sed: sed

Installing Findutils

Prepare Findutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin

By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var. To make the location of /var/lib/misc/locatedb file FHS compliant, pass the --localstatedir=/var/lib/misc option to configure.

Compile the package:

make

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

And install the package:

make install