Is there a way to build and install only a few of the GNU coreutils?The README in coreutils-8.19.tar.xz lists 100-odd, but the INSTALL doesn't say how to install only a few, and the Makefile is (to me) opaque.
Install only a few GNU coreutils?
compiling;gnu;coreutils
  ./configure  cd ./lib  make  cd ../src  make version.h  make cat  make lsHTH===UPDATE as of February 26, 2015:The recipe above doesn't work in at least coreutils-8.23. I would not recommended building separate files.The following shows the complexity of internal dependencies for cat and ls:./configuremake src/version.hmake lib/configmake.hmake lib/arg-nonnull.hmake lib/warn-on-use.hmake lib/fcntl.hmake lib/sys/stat.hmake lib/selinux/context.hmake lib/selinux/selinux.hmake lib/unitypes.hmake lib/unistr.hmake lib/uniwidth.hmake lib/getopt.hmake src/catmake src/ls