%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. June 21, 2006 [Chris] - Text updates to the book, including replacing "LFS" with "CLFS". [jim] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06212006-1. [jim] - Updated Vim 7.0 patch. June 20, 2006 [jeremy] - Corrected e2fsprogs installation in the boot section, to take into account the new mke2fs.conf file. [jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.17.1 and linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06202006. [jim] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06202006-1. June 19, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to man-1.6d. [jciccone] - Added an iconv_fix patch to glibc which fixes an issue that has shown up primarily in samba. [jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.17 and linux-headers-2.6.17-06192006. June 15, 2006 [jim] - Let Perl use thread support. June 14, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Binutils 2.16.94. June 10, 2006 [Chris] - Updates to lists of installed programs for several packages. [Ken] - Fixed the module-init-tools install in the presence of existing files. Thanks to Manuel for pointing me to the fix in LFS, and to Dan Nicholson for the fix. June 9, 2006 [jim] - Updates to Shadow 4.0.16 build instructions. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.20 to 06092006. June 7, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.16. June 6, 2006 [Chris] - Added many more -v switches for verbosity. June 5, 2006 [jim] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.20, and linux-headers-2.6.16.20. [jim] - Updated to Bison 2.3. June 4, 2006 [Chris] - Removed obsolete paragraph about "resetting" passwords when using pwconv from Shadow instructions. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.19 to 06042006. June 1, 2006 [Chris] - Updated list of installed programs for several packages. May 31, 2006 [ken] - Removed redundant chown of /usr/share/libtool/libltdl. [jim] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.19, and linux-headers-2.6.16.19. May 30, 2006 [jim] - Added a patch to fix a missing declaration of R_OK in util-linux. [Chris] - Removed the long-gone swapdev program from the list of programs installed by util-linux, and several programs not installed by default from the kbd program list. [jim] - Updated to E2fsprogs 1.39. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.33. May 29, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Binutils 2.16.93. [jim] - Updated to UDEV 093. [jim] - Updated Udev Rules to 0.1-05292006. [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.18 to 05292006. May 28, 2006 [jim] - Added a patch to Grub to prevent. Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition. May 25, 2006 [jim] - Updated to GCC 4.1.1. [jim] - Add Vim 7.0 Upstream Patches. May 22, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.96. [jim] - Updated linux-2.6.16.18, and linux-headers-2.6.16.18. May 21, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to Bison-2.2, linux-2.6.16.17, and linux-headers-2.6.16.17. May 17, 2006 [Chris] - Made a number of text updates and grammar fixes and added more dependency info (bootscripts, udev-rules, tree) to Appendix C. May 16, 2006 [Chris] - Changed the temp-system and final-system package build order and a few package build instructions to account for the changed order (the rest of ticket #26). [ken] - Change name of coreutils patch to match the patch. May 15, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.32. May 14, 2006 [jim] - Updated Udev Rules to 0.1-05142006. [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.16 to 05142006. May 13, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.95. May 12, 2006 [jim] - Add Vim 7.0 Upstream Patches. May 11, 2006 [jim] - Updated Linux and Linux Headers to 2.6.16.16. [jim] - Add Vim 7.0 Upstream Patches. May 10,2006 [Chris] - Added more detailed dependency info and moved it to Appendices C and D. Fixes half of ticket #26. May 9, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Binutils 2.16.92. [jim] - Updated to Vim 7.0. [jciccone] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.15. May 7, 2006 [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.14 to 05072006. May 6, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.14 to 05062006. May 4, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux-2.6.16.14. [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.13 to 05042006. May 3, 2006 [Chris] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.31. [jim] - Updated to Linux-2.6.16.13. [jim] - Updated to Iana-Etc 2.10. May 2, 2006 [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.12 to 05022006. [jim] - Reverted change to bash. Needed on some architectures. [jim] - Fixed a coreutils cross-compile issues on some architectures. May 1, 2006 [Chris] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.30. [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 05012006. [Chris] - Updated to Linux-2.6.16.12. April 30, 2006 [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04302006. April 29, 2006 [ken] - Add asm-generic to headers which are chowned in non-multilib books. April 28, 2006 [jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04282006. [jim] - Updated Udev Rules to 0.1-04282006. April 27, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04272006. April 25, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Udev 091. [jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04262006. April 24, 2006 [ken] - Updated to iproute2-2.6.16-060323. [jim] - Updated to Linux and Linux Headers 2.6.16.11. April 22, 2006 [ken] - Add example commands to test if chroot is possible, thanks to William Zhou. April 21, 2006 [jim] - Updated Linux-Headers to fix x86_64-biarch problem. April 20, 2006 [jim] - Added missing asm-generic copy to Linux-Headers. [jim] - Updated Linux-Headers to include nvram.h. April 19, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Bash Patch -8. [jim] - Removed Linux-Libc-Headers and replace it with our Linux-Headers package. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.9. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.8. April 18, 2006 [jim] - Renamed gcc fold_const patch to the PR #. [jim] - Added GCC 4.1.0 patch PR20425. This allows searching of multilib dirs for the specs file. April 17, 2006 [Chris] - Removed sed command from temp-system bash - no longer needed for Bash 3.1. [jim] - Updated to Udev 090. [jim] - Updated to udev-rules 0.1-04172006. [jciccone] - Added a gcc patch that fixes an optimaztion error which can result in incorrect code. [jciccone] - Removed the util-linux and kernel patch that fixes the checksum calculation for sun disklabels. April 14, 2006 [jciccone] - Added a security patch to tar. [jciccone] - Added a util-linux and kernel patch to fix a checksum calculation issue for sun disklabels. April 13, 2006 [jim] - Updated to GCC 4.1.0. [jim] - Fixed make install-minimal in udev-rules. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.5. April 12, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Glibc 2.4. [jim] - Updated to latest bash patch -7. April 10, 2006 [jim] - Changed numbering of udev-rules to use 0.1-SVNDATE. April 6, 2006 [jim] - Added install-minimal to udev rules. [jim] - Updated to Udev 089. April 1, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Make 3.81. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.28. March 28, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.1. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.27. March 27, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated coreutils suppress_uptime_kill_su patch to -2. [jciccone] - Updated readline fixes patch to -3.patch. [jciccone] - Updated bash fixes patch to -6. March 22, 2006 [jim] - Updated Udev to build floppy helper. March 21, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Udev 088. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.26. [jim] - Updated to IPRoute2 2.6.15-060110. March 20, 2006 [jim] - Fixed build issue with Texinfo in temp-system. Added --build. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16. [jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.15. [Chris] - Removed note about GCC 2.95.3 from kernel section, as documentation has been updated in linux-2.6.16 and it now recommends GCC >= 3.2. March 15, 2006 [jim] - Changed bootscripts to CLFS-bootscripts 0.1. [jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.2. [jim] - Updated to Flex 2.5.33. March 14, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16-rc6. [jim] - Removal of Hotplug. [jim] - Updated to Udev 087. [jim] - Removal of old udev rules. [jim] - Added Udev-Cross-LFS 0.1. [jim] - Updated to GCC 4.0.3. [jim] - Updated to File 4.17. March 13, 2006 [jciccone] - Removed pure64 bootloader warning from the top page. March 9, 2006 [Chris] - Simplified IPRoute2 instruction by removing redundant "configure" command. March 2, 2006 [Chris] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.25. [Chris] - Reverted to Expect 5.43.0. 5.44.1 depends on Tk. February 27, 2006 [jim] - Updated Bash fixes patch to -5. February 26, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Expect 5.44.1. February 23, 2006 [Chris] - Simplified the "Changing Ownership" page for the boot section, and rewrote some of the text in the final "Reboot" page. February 21, 2006 [jim] - Removed Dependency of Tempfile from Bzip2. [jim] - Updated Bash fixes patch to -4. [jciccone] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.24 February 14, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.94. February 11, 2006 [Chris] - Added -v switches to commands that accept it. February 9, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.23. February 8, 2006 [jim] - Changed x86_64 to use unknown in the target triplet. February 7, 2006 [Chris] - Removed inetutils from boot section - it will be covered in the "netboot" hint. [Chris] - Added section on Package Management - moved out of BLFS. February 6, 2006 [Chris] - Moved the text explaining why binutils should be the first package compiled to a more appopriate location at the first installation of binutils, and changed the wording in temp-system gettext. [jim] - Updated Readline and Bash patches from Upstream. February 5, 2006 [jim] - Updated Procps 32bit build in Multilib builds to use lib64=lib. Fixed via Trac Ticket #2. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.22. February 3, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Sed 4.1.5. February 2, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Perl 5.8.8. [jhuntwork] - Minor textual fix to GCC. February 1, 2006 [Chris] - Added a sed substitution to man instructions to fix an error in the makewhatis script. January 31, 2006 [Chris] - Added -v to commands that accept them, for consistency with LFS. January 30, 2006 [jim] - Change final-system GCC, to use make bootstrap. Update provided by Ryan Oliver. January 29, 2006 [jim] - Updated Toolchain adjustment in final-system. Thank you Dan Nicholson. January 24, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Man 1.6c. January 23, 2006 [Chris] - Removed unnecessary --with-ncurses switches from temp-system bash and inetutils. [Chris] - Moved zlib from temp-system to boot as it's not needed if you chroot. January 19, 2006 [Chris] - Removed patch from shadow instructions. [Chris] - Added perl sprintf vulnerability patch. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.21. January 13, 2006 [ken] - Moved grep ahead of libtool to avoid /tools being hardcoded into the libtool script for EGREP. [ken] - Alter bison to build repeatably, from LFS. [ken] - Alter gccbug to use mktemp, from LFS. [ken] - Move creation of /etc/hosts within Perl instructions, for repeatability, from LFS. [Chris] - Moved bootloader setup to right after "Changing Ownership" in Chapter 7, and changed several package installation instructions in that chapter. January 12, 2006 [Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages to the beginning of Chapter 7. [jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20. [jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6. [jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted on Pure 64 builds. January 11, 2006 [jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai. January 8, 2006 [Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build process and test suite information. January 3, 2006 [jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14. December 30, 2005 [Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure. [ken] - Fix where tree gets installed. December 29, 2005 [jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build. December 28, 2005 [ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we are in chroot. [ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers. [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5. December 23, 2005 [jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries. December 22, 2005 [jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts, including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and as multiple assignments in a single command. [jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence. Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling readline. [jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal. [jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork. December 20, 2005 [jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4. December 19, 2005 [ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS. [jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer. December 18, 2005 [jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot and boot sections. [jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on a multilib capable build. [jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18. December 17, 2005 [jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9. December 16, 2005 [jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system. [jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue in perl. December 15, 2005 [ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo. [jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message. December 14, 2005 [jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent further build issues. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17. [jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite. December 13, 2005 [jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile. Thanks to David Fix. December 12, 2005 [jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section. December 11, 2005 [ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer. December 9, 2005 [jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2. [ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested. [jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers. They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers. December 8, 2005 [jim] - Upgraded to Less 394. [jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1. [jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1. December 7, 2005 [jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12. [jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107. [jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5. [jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16. December 6, 2005 [jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107. [jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures. [jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS. [ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and correct the date in changelog. [jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes wrong. [jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27. December 5, 2005 [Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base instructions on using the LFS pastebin [Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book [Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less user error system. This change will will need to be validated by by other devs [ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf. December 3, 2005 [ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both from LFS. December 2, 2005 [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16. December 1, 2005 [jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15. [jim] - Updated to Udev 076. [jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below. November 30, 2005 [jim] - Text updates to final-system. [jim] - Text updates to temp-tools. November 29, 2005 [jim] - Text updates to chroot. [jim] - Text updates to boot. November 28, 2005 [jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections. [jim] - Text updates to temp-system. [jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins. November 27, 2005 [jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections. [jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko. November 25, 2005 [jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections. November 24, 2005 [Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page [Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect that it no longer exists November 23, 2005 [jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in /tools/include. November 21, 2005 [jim] - Updated to Udev 075. [jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1. November 20, 2005 [jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26. November 18, 2005 [manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite package. November 17, 2005 [jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14. [jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS Architecture. New Patch added. [jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less. November 13, 2005 [manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from LFS-SVN. [manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step, as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN. [jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer. [jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer. November 10, 2005 [ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN. [ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko. [jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements. November 9, 2005 [manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN. [manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN. [manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information. [jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou. November 8, 2005 [jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day. November 7, 2005 [manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN. [manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc. Ported from LFS-SVN. [manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN. [jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list. November 6, 2005 [jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93. [jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6. [jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13. November 5, 2005 [jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8. November 3, 2005 [jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale. Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also. October 31, 2005 [jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs. Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005