%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch book, dated &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via . Below is a list of detailed changes made since the previous release of the book. 09 January 2014 [Chris] - Updated Linux to 3.12.7. [Chris] - Updated Perl to 5.18.2. [Chris] - Updated Gettext to 0.18.3.2. [Chris] - Updated Libcap to 2.24. [Chris] - Removed unneeded command to create a /usr/lib/terminfo symlink from Ncurses instructions. [Chris] - Removed /usr/{doc,info,man} symlinks and edited instructions for packages to ensure all documentation is installed to /usr/share. [Chris] - Moved libcap so it's built just before iputils, which can use libcap. 08 January 2014 [Chris] - Removed commands to create files in /var/run and /var/log - systemd now used its journal for all logs. [Chris] - Removed obsolete sed command from temp-system Coreutils. [Chris] - Removed unneeded command to rename stubs-64.h. [Chris] - Removed unneeded "make configure-host" commands from Binutils. [Chris] - Moved Attr and ACL to just after GCC in the final system. 07 January 2014 [Chris] - Added command, from LFS, to modify /tools/lib/libstdc++.la to prevent a /tools reference in the final system. [Chris] - Use libiberty from GCC, since Binutils no longer installs it by default. 06 January 2014 [Chris] - Added msgmerge and xgettext to /tools Gettext installation - needed for attr. [William Harrington] - Update DHCPCD to 6.2.0. [William Harrington] - Update Grep to 2.16. 05 January 2014 [Chris] - Removed rsyslog and its depedencies, libee and libestr. [Chris] - Updated Expat to 2.1.0. [Chris] - Updated Attr to 2.4.47. [Chris] - Updated D-Bus to 1.6.18. [Chris] - Updated Libcap to 2.23. 04 January 2014 [Chris] - Updated Systemd to 208. [Chris] - Added Gperf, XML::Parser, Intltool, and ACL - needed by systemd. 01 January 2014 [Chris] - Added command to EGLIBC instructions to remove extraneous '.x' files from /usr/include/rpcsvc. 23 December 2013 [William Harrington] - Update E2fsprogs to 1.42.9. [William Harrington] - Update Automake to 1.14.1. 21 December 2013 [William Harrington] - Update CLooG to 0.18.2. [William Harrington] - Update Tzdata to 2013i. [William Harrington] - Update EGLIBC 2.18 to revision 24829. [William Harrington] - Update Linux to 3.12.6. 14 December 2013 [William Harrington] - Update Coreutils to 8.22. [William Harrington] - Update Man-pages to 3.55. 08 December 2013 [William Harrington] - Update Bison to 3.0.2. 06 December 2013 [Chris] - Modified XZ instructions so that it won't install liblzma.{a,la} in /lib. 04 December 2013 [William Harrington] - Updated Binutils to version 2.24. [William Harrington] - Updated File to version 5.16. 26 November 2013 [Chris] - Updated installed program lists for several packages. [Chris] - Removed redundant --disable-su and --disable-login switches from Util-linux - they aren't built anyway if PAM isn't found. 25 November 2013 [William Harrington] - Update Iproute2 to 3.12.0. [William Harrington] - Update Tar to 1.27.1. 23 November 2013 [Chris] - Use nologin from Util-linux instead of Shadow. 22 November 2013 [Chris] - Util-linux now installs last and mesg by default, so use those instead of the versions in Sysvinit. 18 November 2013 [William Harrington] - Move creation of dummy groups and user to final-system Util-linux. [William Harrington] - Remove SUBDIRS variable from final-system Coreutils test command. [William Harrington] - Adjust Util-linux test commands. 13 November 2013 [William Harrington] - Adjust Util-linux check commands. [William Harrington] - Move Shadow before Util-Linux in final-system. [William Harrington] - Update Bison to 3.0.1. [William Harrington] - Remove Bison 3.0 eof patch. 11 November 2013 [William Harrington] - Update TZDATA to 2013h. [William Harrington] - Add MPFR 3.1.2 Fixes patch. [William Harrington] - Update Grep to 2.15. [William Harrington] - Update Linux to 3.12. [William Harrington] - Add a sed for Texinfo 5.x to all sections of Binutils. [William Harrington] - Update Texinfo to 5.2. [William Harrington] - Update KBD to 2.0.1. [William Harrington] - Update Check to 0.9.11. [William Harrington] - Update Automake to 1.14. [William Harrington] - Update Make to 4.0. [William Harrington] - Add a Sed command to EGLIBC for Make-4.x. [William Harrington] - Move Check to temp-system. 09 November 2013 [William Harrington] - Add PKG_CONFIG= in front of configure line for chroot and boot Util-linux for hosts with pkg-config installed. 25 October 2013 [William Harrington] - Updated Util-Linux to 2.24. [William Harrington] - Updated Tar to 1.27. [William Harrington] - Updated Linux to 3.10.17. [William Harrington] - Updated GCC to 4.8.2. [William Harrington] - Updated CLooG to 0.18.1. [William Harrington] - Changelog restarted, see the 2.1.0 book for the old changelog.