%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the 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. 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