%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 changes made since the previous release of the book. 2010-05-21 [matthew] - Upgrade to Diffutils-3.0. Fixes #2656. [matthew] - Correct documentation installation instructions for MPFR. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes #2655. [matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-8.5. Fixes #2643. [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-154. Fixes #2639. [matthew] - Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.5. Fixes #2638. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.34. Fixes #2628. [matthew] - Add a patch to fix incorrect version numbers in Bzip2. Thanks to Jeremy Huntwork (LightCube OS) for the patch. Fixes #2624. 2010-05-06 [bdubbs] - Removed a sed in Chapter 6 GCC instructions that has been fixed in GCC-4.5.0. Fixes #2653. 2010-05-03 [bdubbs] - Added a patch to fix a buffer overflow errror in tar. The fix is specific to building with gcc-4.5 and later. Fixes #2610. [bdubbs] - Added precedures for the new diffutils test suite. Thanks to Chris Staub. Fixes #2650. [bdubbs] - Made minor text changes in Chapter 5, gawk and Chapter 6, patch. Thanks to Chris Staub. Fixes #2649. [bdubbs] - Made several text changes in Section v, Rationale for Packages in the Book. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes #2644. [bdubbs] - Add file to Chapter 5 to remove several warning messages in Chapter 6 binutils. Fixes #2640. 2010-04-20 [matthew] Upgrade to GCC-4.5.0, including the addition of its new dependency, MPC. Fixes #2636. [matthew] Upgrade to Perl-5.12.0. Fixes #2635. [matthew] Upgrade to Kbd-1.15.2. Fixes #2634. [matthew] Remove the now unused --docdir parameter for Udev. Fixes #2633. [matthew] Upgrade to Psmisc-22.11. Fixes #2631. [matthew] Move killall to /bin so that installs with a separate /usr partition and no Sysvinit installed will boot. Fixes #2622. [matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.6.3. Fixes #2621. [matthew] Add upstream fixes 001-005 for Bash. Fixes #2620. [matthew] Remove the Vim fixes patch as it is out of date and looks to be applying fixes still in upstream's development cycle. Fixes #2597. 2010-04-12 [bdubbs] - Adjust zlib instructions to ensure .pc file and all libraries are in the proper location. Thanks to Chris Staub. Fixes #2630. 2010-03-27 [matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.6.1. Fixes #2617. [matthew] Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.17.2. Fixes #2616. [matthew] Upgrade to Bison-2.4.2. Fixes #2615. 2010-03-20 [bdubbs] - Add a sed to the tar command to fix an error in the latest release. The fix is from upstream. 2010-03-18 [matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.33.1. Fixes #2608. [matthew] Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.11. Fixes #2607. [matthew] Upgrade to Zlib-1.2.4. Fixes #2606. [matthew] Upgrade to Tar-1.23. Fixes #2603. [matthew] Upgrade to Grub-1.98. Fixes #2602. [matthew] Remove commands no longer necessary in order to run the Bash test suite. Fixes #2601. [matthew] Upgrade to Binutils-2.20.1. Fixes #2599. 2010-03-01 [matthew] Upgrade to Man-pages-3.24. Fixes #2596. [matthew] Upgrade to M4-1.4.14. Fixes #2594. [matthew] Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.33. Fixes #2592. [matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.33. Fixes #2587. [matthew] Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.7. Fixes #2583. [matthew] Upgrade to Util-Linux-NG-2.17.1. Fixes #2581. [matthew] Upgrade to Diffutils-2.9. Fixes #2577. This also drops the i18n patch as it has been rejected upstream. [matthew] Upgrade to GMP-5.0.1. Fixes #2572. [matthew] Post-LFS-6.6 cleanup.