%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. 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. 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