These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0): 1) second chroot command, chapter 6 glibc, fix up -> must by identical to first chroot command in chapter 6 2) Chapter 5 fileutils, gcc, linux: instead of for example: ln -s ../../bin/install install change it to ln -s ../../bin/install This just shortens the command a bit and it looks better. 3) Chapter 5, gcc: change the title 4) Chapter 5, gzip: don't pass --disable-nls - it has no function on the gzip package 5) Chapter 5, tar: remove prefix=$LFS/usr from the 'make install' 6) Chapter 5, mawk: instead of putting -static in CFLAGS which is sloppy sed the Makefile to add an LDFLAGS variable similar to what we do with bzip2 in chapter 5 7) Chapter 5, makedev: instead of sed "s/.../.../" put the quotations marks inside the search reg ex (sed s/"..."/.../). 8) Chapter 5, makedev: cd to $LFS/dev first, then cp to makedev-temp and patch it. 9) Chapter 6, glibc: after copying pt_chown set mode 4755 on it (Glibc doesn't do this because it failed to copy pt_chown. It tried to chown root it which failed because glibc wasn't fully installed yet) 10) Chapter 5, bash: add note that when error occurs regarding install-info (on Debian systems for example) it can be safely ignored. 11) Chapter 5, kernel: Remove the exessive explanations. Just the commands in sequence like with any other package and explain below in the "command explanations" 12) Chapter 5, bash: when the 'install-info' error corrurs on Debian systems, check if this affects && (the message is Error 2 (ignored) but does that mean the return value is set to 0 as well...) 13) Check if findutils dumps binaries in /usr/local/bin 14) Try out latest shadow suite. If it fails with "nflg undefined" change this in useradd.c : line 1768: -if (! (nflg || gflg)) { +if (!gflg) { 15) Make a note that during the first reboot an error from sysklogd is normal due to missing /etc/services|protocols files which are installed when netkit-base is installed later on in chapter 9 16) Chapter 3: mention lfs-packages isn't for CVS 17) Fix the static link problems some distro's are causing 18) Clean out the ethnet script (for interface in $(ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg* | grep -v ifcfg-lo) do) needs some updating for example) 19) Don't use \u in PS1 when entering chroot to avoid the 'i have no name'. After Glibc installation we could modify the PS1 (export PS1=newvalues) and test that way if glibc is working properly. This saves us the having to exit and re-end chroot environtment. Another idea is to run 'id' or 'whoami' after Glibc installation and check if it's able to find a matching username with root's id. 20) Instead of rm file && ln -s source dest, use ln -sf source dest 21) e2fsprogs apparently needs ldconfig. Check if there are other packages before e2fsprogs which use ldconfig when it's present 22) Mention more hints through out the books (like BSD hint before staring with chapter 7, devfs hint before running MAKEDEV, etc) 23) Fix the layout of intel/chapter7/usage.xml 24) Consider ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/kbd/ to replace console-tools/console-data 25) Try new procps install: make OPT="$CFLAGS" INCDIRS='-I/usr/include -I.' XSCPT='' install 26) When installing Glibc in chapter 6 the mtrace program isn't build. Find out why. 27) Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book 28) Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on package b", but a list of "package a depends on b and c from package d" 29) Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs. 30) Mention security patches that can be applied to packages. 31) Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly. 32) Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt and the patch to the 'patch' package at: http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch 33) Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip patches) 34) Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the currently used one. A copy can be found at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV 35) Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A. 36) Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'