Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > I like this. Output from > > $ cat /etc/lfs-release > SVN-20120311
Here is another version. I can't say I really like it. The original is 40 lines and this is 73. All this because users either don't have enough experience to understand what's there now or because a user (generally experienced) just skips it. After all, the book says: /bin/sh should be a symbolic or hard link to bash /usr/bin/yacc should be a link to bison or small script that executes bison /usr/bin/awk should be a link to gawk We then print out all the current values on the system. How much hand holding do we need to do? -- Bruce #!/bin/bash # Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools function die { rm -f dummy.c dummy echo "Error: $1" exit 1 } function executable { EXE=$(which $1 2>/dev/null) [ -x "$EXE" ] || die "$1 not found" } export LC_ALL=C bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4 SH=`readlink -f /bin/sh` echo "/bin/sh -> $SH" [ "$SH" == "/bin/bash" ] || die "/bin/sh is not a symlink to bash" executable ld echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3- executable bison; bison --version | head -n1 if [ -e /usr/bin/yacc ]; then echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`"; else die "yacc not found"; fi executable bzip2 bzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6- executable chown echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2 executable diff; diff --version | head -n1 executable find; find --version | head -n1 executable gawk; gawk --version | head -n1 AWK=`readlink -f /usr/bin/awk` awk=/usr/bin/awk echo "$awk -> $AWK" [ "$AWK" == "/usr/bin/gawk" ] || die "$awk is not a symlink to gawk" executable gcc; gcc --version | head -n1 echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c && gcc -o dummy dummy.c if [ -x dummy ] then echo "gcc compilation OK" rm -f dummy.c dummy else die "gcc compilation failed" fi executable ldd; ldd --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2- # glibc executable grep; grep --version | head -n1 executable gzip; gzip --version | head -n1 cat /proc/version; executable m4; m4 --version | head -n1 executable make; make --version | head -n1 executable patch; patch --version | head -n1 executable perl; echo Perl `perl -V:version` executable sed; sed --version | head -n1 executable tar; tar --version | head -n1 executable makeinfo; echo "Texinfo: `makeinfo --version | head -n1`" executable xz; xz --version | head -n1 echo -e "\n\n*** Review all versions for currency!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page