%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. September 09, 2007 [jciccone] - Build a PIC libfl.a with Flex. [jim] - Updated Util-Linux-ng in Boot Section, to cross-compile. September 03, 2007 [jim] - Updated Udev to 115. This change also removed udev-cross-lfs package since our rules are the same as base ones installed. [jim] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3. [jim] - Updated Man-Pages to 2.64. [jim] - Updated TCL to 8.4.15. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.22.6. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.22.6-09032007. [jim] - Updated Less to 406. [jim] - Updated Sysklogd to 1.5. [jim] - Updated Kbd to 1.13. [jim] - Updated IPRoute2 to 2.6.22-070710. [jim] - Updated Shadow Patch for more fixes. Man Page Typos, buffer overflows, useradd -G fixes, better name support, and the previous useradd fix. [jim] - Updated Bash 3.2 Patch to -6. [jim] - Updated Readline 5.2 Patch to -3. [jim] - Updated Vim 3.1 Patch to -3. September 02, 2007 [jim] - Updated Util-linux-ng to 2.13. [jim] - Updated Tree to 1.5.1.1. [jciccone] - Updated Glibc to 2.6.1. [jim] - Updated Binutils to 2.18. August 05, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated the bash config.cache to contain all of the differences between a cross-compiled and a native build. July 23, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated Texinfo to 4.9. [jciccone] - Updated E2fsprogs to 1.40.2. [jciccone] - Updated M4 to 1.4.10. [jciccone] - Updated Tar to 1.18. [jciccone] - Updated Libtool to 1.5.24. [jciccone] - Updated the Man Pages to 2.63. July 22, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated GCC to 4.2.1. July 20, 2007 [ken] - Make coreutils build in temp-system when the host cannot run the target programs. July 1, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated the download location for the Man Pages package. June 23, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Glibc 2.6. This includes adding a sed to Coreutils and Gzip to rename their internal implementations of futimens which are incompatible with the implementation provided by Glibc. June 18, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Tar 1.17. June 17, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Vim 7.1. [jciccone] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.31. [jciccone] - Updated to File 4.21. [jciccone] - Updated to Less 403. [jciccone] - Updated to Man Pages 2.57. June 16, 2007 [Chris] - Removed creation of config.cache from temp-system Coreutils, as it no longer looks for setvbuf. May 19, 2007 [jciccone] - Added a patch to Perl that accounts for a change in GCC 4.2.0. The patch causes makedepend.sh to also remove <command-line> as well as <command line>. May 18, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to GCC 4.2.0. April 30, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Man Pages 2.46. April 27, 2007 [jhuntwork] - We don't use the uname patch for temp-system Coreutils. No need to 'touch man/uname.1'. April 24, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Psmisc 22.5. April 20, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.12. [jciccone] - Updated to Psmisc 22.4. [jciccone] - Updated to Man Pages 2.44. [jciccone] - Updated to M4 1.4.9. [jciccone] - Updated to Coreutils 6.9. April 10, 2007 [Chris] - Updated Gzip's list of installed programs - compress is no longer installed, and gunzip, uncompress, and zcat are now bash scripts rather than links. February 25, 2007 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.20.1. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.20.1-02252007. February 17, 2007 [Chris] - Moved the build of the File package in cross-tools to the beginning of the chapter. [jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.11. February 16, 2007 [Chris] - Changed the wording in the "Build Variables" page to make it clearer. [Chris] - Added command to Udev installation to remove Udev rules it installs. [Chris] - Removed Ncurses patch for buggy versions of Bash from from the final-system build (it's still in the temp-system). [Chris] - Removed unneeded /tools/bin/cc symlink. February 15, 2007 [jim] - Fix a building of Ncurses when an unpatched version of Bash 3.x is used. February 14, 2007 [jim] - Updated to GCC 4.1.2. February 5, 2007 [jim] - Updated to Automake 1.10. February 4, 2007 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.20. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.20-02042007. [jim] - Updated to Udev 105. January 23, 2007 [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.19.2-01232007. [jim] - Update to Glibc Branch Update Patch. January 15, 2007 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.19.2. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.19.2-01152007. [jim] - Updated to Tree 1.5.1. [jim] - Updated to Udev 104. [jim] - Updated to Udev Rules 1.1-pre4. [Chris] - Removed obsolete note from bzip2 instructions about performing rm /usr/bin/bz*. January 12, 2007 [jim] - Update to Glibc Branch Update Patch. [jim] - Update to Binutils Branch Update Patch. January 7, 2007 [jim] - Updated to Bzip2 1.0.4. December 23, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to Ncurses 5.6. December 15, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.9. [jim] - Updated to IPRoute2 2.6.19-061214. December 13, 2006 [jim] - Added File to Cross-tools. December 12, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.19.1. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.19.1-12122006. [jim] - Added Readline Upstream Patch. [jim] - Update Bash Upstream Patch. [jim] - Updated to File 4.19. December 10, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.8. December 9, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Tar 1.16.1. December 7, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.7. [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.7. [jim] - Reverting sysroot changes. December 1, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.43. [jim] - Removed MINOR patch and replaced it with a more complete upstream patch will all current updates to the 2.5 branch of glibc. [jim] - Added Binutils Branch Update Patch. [jim] - Reverted change in gettext build in temp-system. [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.7. November 29, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.19-11302006. [jim] - Updated to Udev Rules 1.1-pre3. November 29, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.19. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.19-11292006. November 27, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Gettext 0.16.1. November 26, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.42. [jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.6. November 25, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.29. November 23, 2006 [Chris] - Added /bin/rm to essential symlinks - e2fsprogs testsuite hard-codes the location to that binary. November 22, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.6. [jim] - Updated to Man 1.6e. November 20, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.5. [jim] - Added Patch for Coreutils 6.5 ls segfault. [jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.8. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18.3. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.3-11202006. November 17, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Autoconf 2.61. November 15, 2006 [jim] - Updated to IANA-Etc 2.20. November 14, 2006 [jim] - Change to E2FSProgs, does not pick up the CC or LD variables. November 12, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.2-11122006. [jim] - Bash 3.2 patch updated with upstream fixes 001-005. November 5, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18.2. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.2-11052006. November 4, 2006 [Chris] - Modified the instructions for disabling the installation of the groups program to account for changes in shadow's Makefile. November 2, 2006 [jim] - Updated to File 4.18. October 31, 2006 [jim] - Bash 3.2 patch updated with upstream fixes. [jim] - Updated to Bootscripts 1.1-pre3. October 30, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Udev Rules 1.1-pre2. October 27, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Bootscripts 1.1-pre2. [jim] - Updated syslog.conf file. October 26, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux-Headers 2.6.18.1-10262006. [jim] - Updated to Gettext 0.16. [jim] - The nscd sed is no longer needed to build Glibc 2.5. October 25, 2006 [Chris] - Updated to Psmisc 22.3. [Chris] - Updated to Tcl 8.4.14. [Chris] - Moved e2fsprogs and sed before coreutils, as Coreutils testsuite now requires e2fsprogs. October 23, 2006 [Chris] - Removed unneeded additions to config.cache for temp-system Tar and Coreutils. [jim] - Added touch man/uname.1 in temp-system Coreutils to prevent a build failure. [jim] - Added Patch for a Versioning issue with Glibc 2.5. October 22, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18.1. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.1-10222006. [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.4. [jim] - Removed out of place udev text in bootscripts Networking. October 21, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Inetutils 1.5. [jim] - Updated to IPRoute2 2.6.18-061002. [jim] - Updated to Tar 1.16. [jim] - Updated to Udev 103. [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.3. October 20, 2006 [Chris] - Removed command to add "setvbuf_reversed" to temp-system bash as it is no longer needed with Bash 3.2. [Chris] - Added command to man instructions to comment out MANPATH /usr/local/man (in addition to /usr/man). October 15, 2006 [jim] - Updated Bash 3.2 with some unofficial upstream fixes. Thank you Chet Ramey. October 12, 2006 [jim] - Added patch to fix build issue with Bash 3.2. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.41. [jim] - Updated to Glibc 2.5. October 11, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Bash 3.2. [jim] - Updated to Readline 5.2. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.40. [jim] - Updated to Udev 102. October 4, 2006 [manuel] - Changed book license to the Open Publication License v1.0. October 1, 2006 [Chris] - Removed obsolete command from Tcl instructions, as the issue it fixes has been fixed in the latest Tcl version. September 29, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers to 2.6.18-09302006. [jim] - New patch for util-linux, replaces GCC 4 Fixes, the new patches fixes the same issues, and removes the use of syscalls. Syscalls were removed the unistd.h during santization. September 28, 2006 [jim] - Added patch for Util-Linux to fix build issues due to headers change in the kernel. [jim] - Updated to Texinfo 4.8a. September 25, 2006 [jim] - Updated Bootscripts to 1.1-pre1. Adding in the boot logging feature. [jim] - Updated to Udev 100. [jim] - Updated Udev Rules for Udev 100. [jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.7. [jim] - Updated to Linux to 2.6.18. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers to 2.6.18-09252006. [jim] - Udev library libvolume_id is used by HAL, which makes us change our build to a multilib build of udev libaries only for 32 and N32. September 18, 2006 [jim] - Updated Bison to a multilib build in all support architectures. August 28, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Gettext 0.15. [jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.18.1. [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.97. [jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.7. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.39. [jim] - Updated to Autoconf 2.60. [jim] - Updated to TCL 8.4.13. [jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.6. [jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.28. [jim] - Updated to Coreutils Uname Patch -2, which supports all architectures. [jim] - Updated to Vim Patch -10, which contains upstream fixes. [jim] - Updated to Udev 098 and udev-cross-lfs to 1.1-08272006 rules. August 28, 2006 [jim] - Changelog restarted, see the 1.0.0 book for the old changelog. Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005