s6-portable-utils
Software
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How to install s6-portable-utils

Like any other piece of software (and information generally), s6-portable-utils comes with NO WARRANTY.

s6-portable-utils is available under the terms of the ISC license, see the included package/COPYING file.

Requirements

System

• A Unix-like system

Build-time

• A standard C development environment
• The skalibs package, version 1.1.1 or higher

Run-time

Depending on the way you compile and link s6-portable-utils:

• No dependencies (static executables)
• or a standard C run-time environment (dynamic executables with flag-allstatic)
• or a standard C run-time environment and the skalibs package, version 1.1.1 or higher (dynamic executables without flag-allstatic)

Installation

s6-portable-utils follows the slashpackage convention.

• Create a /package directory:

       mkdir -p /package
       chmod 1755 /package
       cd /package
  

• Download the latest version of s6-portable-utils, s6-portable-utils-0.17.tar.gz, into /package.
• Unpack the s6-portable-utils package:

       tar -zxpvf s6-portable-utils-0.17.tar.gz
       # if you do not have GNU tar, check with your gunzip and tar manual pages.
       rm s6-portable-utils-0.17.tar.gz
       cd admin/s6-portable-utils-0.17
  

• Configure the package by editing the files in conf-compile/ following these instructions. s6-portable-utils currently does not support any other flags than flag-allstatic.
• Compile and set up s6-portable-utils:

       make
       sudo make install
  

• To save disk space:

       make clean