10.75.1. Installation of Psmisc
Prepare Psmisc for compilation:
CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr \
--exec-prefix=""
The meaning of the configure option:
--exec-prefix=""
This ensures that the Psmisc binaries will install into
/bin
instead of
/usr/bin
. This is the
correct location according to the FHS, because some of the Psmisc
binaries are used by the CLFS-Bootscripts package.
Compile the package:
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install the package:
make install
There is no reason for the pstree and
pstree.x11 programs to reside in /bin
. Therefore, move them to /usr/bin
:
mv -v /bin/pstree* /usr/bin
By default, Psmisc's pidof program is not installed.
This usually is not a problem because it is installed later in the Sysvinit
package, which provides a better pidof program. If
Sysvinit will not be used for a particular system, complete the installation
of Psmisc by creating the following symlink:
ln -sv killall /bin/pidof