Added a more detailed list of minimum software requirements.

Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
Resolves ticket 1598.


git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7538 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 66 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/prologue/hostreqs.xml b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
index 23aa8c9f0..a4d4948ea 100644
--- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
@@ -10,12 +10,71 @@
 
   <title>Host System Requirements</title>
 
-  <para>The host must be running at least a 2.6.2 kernel compiled with GCC-3.0
-  or higher. There are two main reasons for this requirement. First, the Native
-  POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
-  has not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version. Second, the 2.6.2 or
-  later version of the kernel is required for the use of Udev. Udev creates
-  devices dynamically by reading from the <systemitem
+    <para>Your host system should have the following software with the minimum
+    versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most modern Linux
+    distributions. Also note that many distributions will place software headers
+    into separate packages, often in the form of <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote>
+    or <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those as well, if
+    your distribution provides them.</para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Bash-2.05a</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than &binutils-version; not recommended.)</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Bzip2-1.0.2</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Coreutils-5.0 (or Sh-Utils-2.0, Textutils-2.0
+      and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Diffutils-2.8</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Findutils-4.1.20</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Gawk-3.0</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Gcc-2.95.3 (Versions greater than &gcc-version; not recommended.)</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Glibc-2.2.5 (Versions greater than &glibc-version; not recommended.)</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Grep-2.5</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Gzip-1.2.4</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Linux Kernel-2.6.2 (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Make-3.79.1</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Patch-2.5.4</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Sed-3.0.2</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Tar-1.14</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  <para>There are two main reasons for the kernel version requirement. First,
+  the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the
+  host's kernel has not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version. Second,
+  the 2.6.2 or later version of the kernel is required for the use of Udev.
+  Udev creates devices dynamically by reading from the <systemitem
   class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> file system. However, support for this
   filesystem has only recently been implemented in most of the kernel drivers.
   We must be sure that all critical system devices get created properly.</para>
@@ -38,9 +97,6 @@
   doesn't offer a 2.6.2 (or later) kernel package, or you would prefer not to
   install it, then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for
   compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host
-  uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>. This second
-  option can also be seen as a gauge of your current Linux skills. If this
-  second requirement is too steep, then the LFS book will not likely be much
-  use to you at this time.</para>
+  uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
 
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