%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. Janurary 04, 2009 [jciccone] - Add NCurses Widec build. [jciccone] - Add GCC Branch Update Patch. [jciccone] - Add GMP and MPFR. Janurary 03, 2009 [jciccone] - Convert from the old depreciated kernel headers tarball to the headers included with the kernel. [jciccone] - Update Patches. [jciccone] - Updated Binutils to 2.19. [jciccone] - Updated Glibc to 2.8. [jciccone] - Updated IPRoute2 to 2.6.26. [jciccone] - Updated Libtool to 2.2.6a. [jciccone] - Updated the Kernel to 2.6.28. [jciccone] - Updated M4 to 1.4.12. [jciccone] - Updated Man to 1.6f. [jciccone] - Updated Man-Pages to 3.15. [jciccone] - Removed Mktemp. [jciccone] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.5. [jciccone] - Updated NCurses to 5.7. [jciccone] - Updated Perl to 5.10.0. [jciccone] - Updated PSMisc to 22.6. [jciccone] - Updated Shadow to 4.1.2.2. [jciccone] - Updated Tar to 1.21. [jciccone] - Updated Texinfo to 4.13a. [jciccone] - Updated Udev to 135. [jciccone] - Updated Util-Linux-NG to 2.14.1. [jciccone] - Updated Vim to 7.2. [jciccone] - Updated Less to 418. [jciccone] - Updated Kbd to 1.15. [jciccone] - Updated Inetutils to 1.6. [jciccone] - Updated IANA-ETC to 2.30. [jciccone] - Updated Gettext to 0.17. [jciccone] - Updated GCC to 4.3.2. [jciccone] - Updated Gawk to 3.1.6. [jciccone] - Updated Flex to 2.5.35. [jciccone] - Updated Findutils to 4.2.31. [jciccone] - Updated File to 4.26. [jciccone] - Updated E2fsProgs to 1.41.3. [jciccone] - Updated Coreutils to 6.12. [jciccone] - Updated the Bootscripts to 1.2-pre2. [jciccone] - Updated Bison to 2.4.1. [jciccone] - Updated BZip2 to 1.0.5. [jciccone] - Updated Autoconf to 2.63. [jciccone] - Updated Automake to 1.10.2. December 16, 2008 [Jonathan] - Updated readline fixes patch to -4. [Jonathan] - Corrected a typo in the changelog. December 16, 2008 [Chris] - Corrected man-pages installation. Closes ticket #187. January 21, 2008 [jciccone] - Updated the Bash fixes patch to -7. September 15, 2007 [jciccone] - Create entities for each UID and GID and reference those entities throught the book instead of using user names and group names. [jciccone] - Updated Vim 7.1 fixes Patch to -3. [jciccone] - Updated Readline 5.2 fixes Patch to -3. [jciccone] - Updated Bash 3.2 fixes Patch to -6. [jciccone] - Updated CLFS Bootscripts to 1.1-pre4. September 9, 2007 [jciccone] - Build a PIC libfl.a with flex. [jciccone] - Updated to Util-Linux-ng 2.13. [jciccone] - Updated Udev to 115. This change also removed the udev-cross-lfs package since our rules are the same as the ones installed. [jciccone] - Updated Man-Pages to 2.64. [jciccone] - Updated Kbd to 1.13. [jciccone] - Updated Less to 406. [jciccone] - Updated Linux to 2.6.22.6 and Linux Headers to 2.6.22.6-09032007. [jciccone] - Updated Sysklogd to 1.5. [jciccone] - Updated Shadow Patch for more fixes. Man Page Typos , buffer overflows, useradd -G fixes, better name support, and the previous useradd fix. [jciccone] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3. [jciccone] - Updated Binutils to 2.18. [jciccone] - Updated Glibc to 2.6.1. August 14, 2007 [jciccone] - Pointed Inetutils to the Ncurses headers in $CLFS. 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. [jciccone] - Updated Glibc to 2.6. July 1, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated the download location for the Man Pages package. June 18, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Tar 1.17. [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. May 20, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to GCC 4.2.0. April 30, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated to Man Pages 2.46. [jciccone] - Updated to Psmisc 22.5. [jciccone] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.12. [jciccone] - Updated to M4 1.4.9. [jciccone] - Updated to Coreutile 6.9. April 4, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated Gzip's list of installed programs. March 10, 2007 [jciccone] - Added a patch to the Perl build that fixes an issue with recent snapshots of gcc-4.2.0. March 9, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated Linux Headers to 2.6.20.1-02252007. [jciccone] - Updated Linux to 2.6.20.1. February 19, 2007 [jciccone] - Changed the wording in the "Build Variables" page to make it clearer. Copied from Chris's change in clfs-svn. [jciccone] - Fix the building of Ncurses when an unpatched version of Bash 3.x is used. [jciccone] - Updated Gzip to 1.3.11. [jciccone] - Added a command to remove the rules that Udev installs by default. [jciccone] - Updated the Perl Cross-compile patch to support Alpha. February 14, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated GCC to 4.1.2. February 06, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated Automake to 1.10. [jciccone] - Updated the Glibc Branch Update patch to -3. [jciccone] - Updated Linux to 2.6.20. [jciccone] - Updated Linux Headers to 2.6.20-02042007. [jciccone] - Updated Udev to 105. [jciccone] - Updated Udev Rules to 1.1-pre4. January 13, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated the Binutils Branch Update Patch. [jciccone] - Updated the Glibc Branch Update Patch. January 7, 2007 [jciccone] - Updated Bzip to 1.0.4. January 4, 2007 [Chris] - Removed redundant command to copy libiberty.h to ${CLFS}/usr/include a second time. December 23, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated Ncurses to 5.6. December 16, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated IPRoute2 to 2.6.19-061214 [jciccone] - Updated Gzip to 1.3.9. [jciccone] - Updated File to 4.19. [jciccone] - Update Bash Patch from Upstream. [jciccone] - Added Readline Patch from Upstream. [jciccone] - Updated Linux to 2.6.19.1. [jciccone] - Updated Linux Headers to 2.6.19.1-12122006. December 11, 2006 [jciccone] - Removed MINOR patch and replaced it with a more complete upstream patch will all current updates to the 2.5 branch of Glibc. [jciccone] - Updated Tar to 1.16.1. [jciccone] - Added Binutils Branch Update Patch. [jciccone] - Updated Gzip to 1.3.8. [jciccone] - Updated Linux Headers to 2.6.19-12042006. [jciccone] - Updated Coreutils to 6.7. December 2, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated Linux-Headers to 2.6.19-11302006. [jciccone] - Updated Linux to 2.6.19. [jciccone] - Updated Man-Pages to 2.43. November 30, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated the Udev Rules to 1.1-pre3. November 29, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated Gettext to 0.16.1. November 25, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated Gzip to 1.3.6. [jciccone] - Updated Man-Pages to 2.42. [jciccone] - Updated Findutils to 4.2.29. [jciccone] - Updated the Glibc cross_hacks patch to -2. The new version prevents CFLAGS from being used when compiling a native tool. [Chris] - Removed obsolete command from man instructions as the problem it addresses was fixed in the latest man version). November 24, 2006 [jciccone] - Added a native compile of Shadow. The native utilities are configured to work with the target system. The password and group files can now be shadowed and the root password can be set before booting into the system. November 23, 2006 [jciccone] - Replace the glibc crosscompile timezone fix patch with the glibc cross hacks patch. The new patch has support for zoneinfo, locales, and librpcsvc. [jciccone] - Update the Glibc libgcc_eh patch to -2. The new version checks to see if libgcc_eh exists and if it does Glibc will link against it. [jciccone] - Updated Man to 1.6e. [jciccone] - Updated Coreutils to 6.6. [jciccone] - Updated Linux to 2.6.18.3 and Linux Headers to 2.6.18.3-11202006. [jciccone] - Updated M4 to 1.4.8. November 20, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated Coreutils to 6.5. [jciccone] - Updated Autoconf to 2.61. November 15, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to IANA-Etc 2.20. November 14, 2006 [jciccone] - Bash 3.2 patch updated with upstream fixes 001-005. [jciccone] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.2-11122006. November 9, 2006 [Chris] - Removed unnecessary creation of /etc/mtab. November 7, 2006 [jciccone] - Added a patch to fix a versioning issue with Glibc 2.5. [jciccone] - Updated to Glibc 2.5. [jciccone] - Modified the instructions for disabling the installation of the groups program to account for changes in shadow's Makefile. [jciccone] - Updated to File 4.18. [jciccone] - Updated to Bootscripts 1.1-pre3. [jciccone] - Bash 3.2 patch updated with upstream fixes. [jciccone] - Updated to Udev Rules 1.1-pre2. [jciccone] - Updated to Gettext 0.16. [jciccone] - Updated to Psmisc 22.3. [jciccone] - Moved e2fsprogs and sed before coreutils for consistancy with clfs-svn. The testsuite dependency, the reason for it moving, doesn't affect clfs2. [jciccone] - Removed out of place udev text in bootscripts Networking. [jciccone] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18.2 and Linux-Headers 2.6.18.2-11052006. [jciccone] - Updated to Coreutils 6.4. [jciccone] - Updated to Udev 103. [jciccone] - Updated to Tar 1.16. [jciccone] - Updated to IPRoute2 2.6.18-061002. November 5, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to Inetutils 1.5. [jciccone] - Added command to man instructions to comment out MANPATH /usr/local/man (in addition to /usr/man). [jciccone] - Updated Bash 3.2 with some unofficial upstream fixes. Thank you Chet Ramey. October 14, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated the udev rules tarball to 1.1-09062006. [jciccone] - Updated the vim fixes patch to -14. [jciccone] - Added patch to fix build issues with Bash 3.2. [jciccone] - Updated Udev to 102. [jciccone] - Updated Man-Pages to 2.41. [jciccone] - Updated Readline to 5.2. [jciccone] - Updated Bash to 3.2. [jciccone] - New patch for util-linux, replaces GCC 4 fixes. The new patch fixes the same issues, and removes the use of syscalls. Syscalls were removed from unistd.h during sanitation. [jciccone] - Updated Texinfo to 4.8a. [jciccone] - Added a patch to Util-Linux to fix build issues due to changes in the kernel. [jciccone] - Updated M4 to 1.4.7 [jciccone] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18 and Linux-Headers-2.6.18-09302006. [jciccone] - Updated Bootscripts to 1.1-pre1. Adding in the boot logging feature. [jciccone] - Removed TeX installation commands from Texinfo instructions. October 5, 2006 [manuel] - Changed book license to the Open Publication License v1.0. August 31, 2006 [jciccone] - Added a Host System Requirements page. [jciccone] - Updated to Vim Patch -12, which contains upstream fixes. This patch will be upgraded weekly, no further changelog entries needed. [jciccone] - Add patch to fix gzexe. Used Matts change from LFS, that utilizes Robert's fix. More details at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1876. [jciccone] - Added a patch to fix Inetutils. Telnet on 64 bit systems will fail, it will attempt to connect to 255.255.255.255 instead of the ip address entered. This was due to a change in glibc's handling of inet_addr, was long now is u_int32_t. Bug found by Vladimir Vainer. [jciccone] - Updated Linux to 2.6.17.13 and Linux Headers to 2.6.17.13-09092006. [jciccone] - Replaced the Perl -fPIC patch with a sed. [jciccone] - Removed the keymap settings from the kernel pages. [jciccone] - Added Shadow patch to fix useradd. August 30, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to Coreutils Uname Patch -2, which supports all architectures. [jciccone] - Updated to Vim Patch -10, which contains upstream fixes. [jciccone] - Updated to Udev 098 and udev-cross-lfs to 1.1-08272006 rules. [jciccone] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.28. [jciccone] - Updated to M4 1.4.6. [jciccone] - Updated to Autoconf 2.60. [jciccone] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.39. [jciccone] - Updated to Procps 3.2.7. [jciccone] - Updated to Coreutils 0.97. [jciccone] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.18.1. [jciccone] - Updated to Gettext 0.15. [jciccone] - Updated to Cross-LFS Bootscripts 0.4. [jciccone] - Updated to Linux-2.6.17.11 and Linux-Headers to 2.6.17.11-08232006. [jciccone] - Added the Perl fPIC patch which makes perl build a shared DynaLoader.a. [jciccone] - Removed mention of package users hint from "Package Management" page. August 8, 2006 [jciccone] - Moved man-pages to the beginning of the build. (fixes ticket #82). August 7, 2006 [jciccone] - Fixed a problem where when bash is cross-compiled it cannot test for the presence of named pipes. [jciccone] - Fixed symlink issue in bootscripts. New package CLFS-bootscropts 0.3. July 22, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated the perl cross-compile patch to -2 to support x86. [jciccone] - Added x86 to the book. July 21, 2006 [jciccone] - Added TZDIR="${CLFS}/usr/share/zoneinfo" to the tzselect command. This makes sure that the tzselect command looks in zoneinfo dir that was just installed by glibc instead of the host. July 20, 2006 [jciccone] - Added groff to cross-tools to satisfy a dependency when cross-compiling it later in the final system. [jciccone] - Updated to Udev-096. [jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.17.6 and linux-headers-2.6.17.6-07202006. July 16, 2006 [jciccone] - Added a sed to fix updatedb due to the new location of find. [jciccone] - Removed unneeded chown and chmod commands from the linux-headers installation. July 10, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.4-07112006. July 10, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.4-07092006. July 9, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.17.4 and linux-headers-2.6.17.4-07072006. [jciccone] - Updated Udev rules to 07062006, Fixed cdrom permissions and groups. [jciccone] - Fixes a possible issue with bootscripts if the /usr partition is not mounted during startup. Moved find to /bin and moved some kbd utilities to /bin. July 2, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated passwd and group file creation to only create minimal users and groups and include information on other users/groups. [jciccone] - Updated to Cross-LFS Bootscripts. Added check for for /etc/sysconfig/createfiles. June 28, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06272006. June 24, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to Binutils-2.17. June 22, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated Vim 7.0 fixes patch to -5. [jciccone] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06212006. [jciccone] - Updated Vim 7.0 fixes patch to -4. [jciccone] - Added mktemp to the Linux dependency list. New dependency as of 2.6.17. June 21, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.17.1 and 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 18, 2006 [jciccone] - Added the glibc crosscompile_timezone-fix to glibc which installs timezone info when cross-compiling. June 16, 2006 [jciccone] - Added information about cross-compiling perl. June 15, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to Binutils-2.16.94. June 11, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated the list of installed programs for several packages. [jciccone] - Fixed the module-init-tools install in the presence of existing files. [jciccone] - Updated to Linux-Headers-2.6.16.20-10262006. [jciccone] - Updated to Shadow-4.0.16. June 6, 2006 [jciccone] - Added information about cross-compiling vim. May 29, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.20, linux-headers-2.6.16.20-06052006, and Bison-2.3. [jciccone] - Added a patch to fix a missing declaration of R_OK in util-linux. [jciccone] - Updated to e2fsprogs-1.39, man-pages-2.33, and linux-headers-2.6.16.19-06042006. May 29, 2006 [jciccone] - Updated to linux-headers-05292006, udev-093, and binutils-2.16.93. May 24, 2006 [jciccone] - Created the clfs-2.0 branch. Resetting all Changelogs. Branch Synced from cross-lfs-1.0 on May 24th, 2006