%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. July 24, 2006 [Chris] - Updated commands for building the keymap into the kernel - changed the bootable/kernel page to account for the new keymap files location, and changed the instructions in the "boot" section to reflect that fact that we don't know where the keymap files may be on the host (fixes ticket #56). July 20, 2006 [jim] - Updated to linux-2.6.17.6 and linux-headers-2.6.17.6-07202006. [jim] - Updated to Udev 096. July 17, 2006 [jeremy] - Minor foreword fixups courtesy of Karen. July 16, 2006 [Chris] - Removed unneeded chown and chmod commands from final-system linux-headers installation. [Chris] - Added a sed command to fix updatedb due to the new location for the find program. July 14, 2006 [jeremy] - Updated to new foreword July 11, 2006 [jim] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.4-07112006. July 9, 2006 [jim] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.4-07092006. July 8, 2006 [jim] - Updated to linux-2.6.17.4 and linux-headers-2.6.17.4-07072006. [Chris] - Removed many "${CLFS}" references from explanatory text in boot section. July 7, 2006 [Chris] - Modified the "creating directories" sections - changed multilib instructions to be consistent with the new format now used for every other arch, and changed mips instructions to use xincludes. July 6, 2006 [jim] - Updated Udev rules to 07062006, Fixed cdrom, permissions and groups. July 5, 2006 [jim] - Fixes a possible issue with bootscripts if the the /usr partition is not mounted during startup. Moved find to /bin and moved some kbd utilities to /bin. July 4, 2006 [jim] - Updated the Grub patch to fix various issues, see text of patch for more details. July 2, 2006 [Chris] - Updated passwd and group file creation to only create minimal users and groups and include information on other users/groups. [jim] - Added file to Testsuite tools, required for gcc tests. July 1, 2006 [jim] - Updated the build to use CLFS in variables instead of LFS. Also change /mnt/lfs to /mnt/clfs. June 29, 2006 [jim] - Updated Temp-System and Boot builds to be more consistant. Added --build=${LFS_HOST}, where possible. [jim] - Updated to Cross-LFS Bootscripts. Added check for for /etc/sysconfig/createfiles. June 27, 2006 [jim] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06272006. June 25, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06252006. June 24, 2006 [jeremy] - Release of 1.0.0-rc1 June 23, 2006 [jim] - Updated Binutils 2.17. [jim] - Updated Cross-LFS Specific Packages and Patches links for Release. June 22, 2006 [jim] - Added mktemp to Linux dependency list. New dependency as of 2.6.17. [jim] - Updated Vim 7.0 patch. 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 CLFS_HOST and CLFS_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 $CLFSHOME 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