6.51.1. Installation of Psmisc
Prepare Psmisc for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""
The meaning of the configure options:
-
--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 LFS-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