<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Stuff you will need</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Glibc Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Preparations" HREF="preparations.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Preparations" HREF="preparations.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Special things you need to do" HREF="special-things-you-need-to-do.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Glibc Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="preparations.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 3. Preparations</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="special-things-you-need-to-do.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="stuff-you-will-need" ></A >3.1. Stuff you will need</H1 ><P >Basically, you need two different things: software that is already running on your machine (eg., pre-installed by your distribution) and packages of source-code for different programs.</P ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="software-you-will-need" ></A >3.1.1. Software you will need</H2 ><P > <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >a running <SPAN CLASS="productname" >gcc</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >an older version of <SPAN CLASS="productname" >glibc</SPAN > ;-)</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >GNU-binutils</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >GNU-make</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >the <SPAN CLASS="productname" >GNU-core-utils</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >GNU-tar</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >bash</SPAN > or any shell you prefer</P ></LI ><LI ><P >very useful but not a must: <SPAN CLASS="productname" >Midnight Commander</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >an editor you like (<SPAN CLASS="productname" >vi, jed</SPAN >, etc.)</P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sources-you-will-need" ></A >3.1.2. Sources you will need</H2 ><P > <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >bash</SPAN >or the shell you like</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >GNU-tar</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >GNU-core-utils</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><SPAN CLASS="productname" >GNU-make</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >of course:<SPAN CLASS="productname" >glibc</SPAN ></P ></LI ><LI ><P >possibly: <SPAN CLASS="productname" >gcc</SPAN ></P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="preparations.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="special-things-you-need-to-do.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Preparations</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="preparations.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Special things you need to do</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >