Re: coreutils not installable without extra features???

[Jim Meyering]

Dennis Heuer <address@hidden> wrote:
> i tried to install coreutils onto a new partition as part of a plain
> new x86_64 system. i did this from a fedora8 system because my old one
> is a 32bit system. however, the fedora8 system is really more than
> feature-complete (including compatibility and deprecated stuff) and all
> the tool packages i installed linked to all of that freeheartedly.
> other packages, like util-linux, at least allowed for disabling this
> behaviour. coreutils doesn't provide such a --without-extras (or
> similar) option. this said, i now have a problem with all of the
> freshly installed coreutils searching for something (libtinfo,
> libselinux, etc.) when i try to start the plain new system to populate
> it natively. this is a great problem because the new system should be as
> small as possible to make stripping dependencies to the parent system
> as easy as possible.
>
> please support a 'plain' installation without extra dependencies.

It's already supported, albeit not well-documented,
because so few people want to do such things, these days.

Run ./configure something like the following, and
the resulting binaries won't link to SELinux-related libraries:

env \
  ac_cv_header_selinux_context_h=no \
  ac_cv_header_selinux_flask_h=no \
  ac_cv_header_selinux_selinux_h=no \
  ac_cv_search_setfilecon=no \
  ./configure