%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; &version;-multilib &versiond; &versiond;-multilib 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. 2021-02-02 [pierre] - Move tcl, expect, and dejagnu just before binutils in chapter 8: this allows to build them against chapter 8 glibc. [pierre] - To allow building with newer version of glibc than the host distribution, build a "file" executable for the host before cross-compiling it. [pierre] - Replace the relinked libctf (which may incorrectly link against libz from the host distribution) with the one that was linked during "make" in binutils-pass2. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.6. Fixes #4800. [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.33. Fixes #4799. [bdubbs] - Minor change to mountfs boot script. Fixes #4798. 2021-02-01 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2433. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20210115. Addresses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.5. Fixes #4797. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.46.0. Fixes #4796. [bdubbs] - Update to autoconf-2.71. Fixes #4795. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2021a. Fixes #4793. [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.32.1. Fixes #4792. [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.47. Fixes #4791. [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.5. Fixes #4790. [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.36. Fixes #4789. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.10.12. Fixes #4786. 2020-01-16 [renodr] - Update to findutils-4.8.0. Fixes #4785. [renodr] - Update to kmod-28. Fixes #4784. [renodr] - Update to tar-1.33. Fixes #4783. [renodr] - Update to linux-5.10.7. Fixes #4782. [renodr] - Update to meson-0.56.2. Fixes #4781. [renodr] - Update to tcl-8.6.11. Fixes #4780. 2021-01-13 [xry111] - Fix util-linux uuidd socket path. [xry111] - Remove various references to deprecated /var/run, use /run instead. [xry111] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20210113. 2021-01-01 [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2253. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201229. Addresses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.19. Fixes #4779. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2020f. Fixes #4777. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.10. Fixes #4776. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.10.0. Fixes #4775. [bdubbs] - Update to zstd-1.4.8. Fixes #4774. [bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.4.0. Fixes #4773. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.10.4. Fixes #4772. 2020-12-15 [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.46. Fixes #4771. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.4. Fixes #4770. [bdubbs] - Update to autoconf-2.70. Fixes #4769. [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1i. Fixes #4768. [bdubbs] - Update to Python3-3.9.1. Fixes #4767. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.14. Fixes #4766. [bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.1 and readline-8.1. Fixes #4764. 2020-12-07 [ken] - Patch meson-0.56.0 to correctly create pkgconfig files re static libraries (re sysprof in BLFS) . Fixes #4675. 2020-12-03 [renodr] - Update to linux-5.9.12. Fixes #4673. [renodr] - Update to bc-3.2.3. Fixes #4672. [renodr] - Update to systemd-247. Fixes #4745. 2020-12-01 [bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.10.2. Fixes #4760. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.1. Fixes #4759. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.11. Fixes #4758. [bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.16.3. Fixes #4757. [bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.98. Fixes #4756. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.36.1. Fixes #4755. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201124. Addresses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2070. Addresses #4500. 2020-11-15 [bdubbs] - Update to gmp-6.2.1. Fixes #4754. [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201110. Addresses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.09. Fixes #4750. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.8. Fixes #4749. [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.45. Fixes #4751. [bdubbs] - Update to grep-3.6. Fixes #4752. [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.4. Fixes #4753. 2020-11-01 [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.182. Fixes #4748. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.56.0. Fixes #4747. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.2. Fixes #4746. [bdubbs] - Update to mpc-1.2.1. Fixes #4744. [bdubbs] - Update to less-563. Fixes #4743. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2020d. Fixes #4742. 2020-10-19 [dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20201019. 2020-10-20 [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.9.0. Fixes #4739. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2020c. Fixes #4741. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.1. Fixes #4740. 2020-10-15 [bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201012. Addresses #4722. [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.1845. Addresses #4500. [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.3. Fixes #4738. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2020b. Fixes #4737. [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.44. Fixes #4735. [bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.9. Fixes #4736. [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.10. Fixes #4734. [bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.1.6. Fixes #4732. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9. Fixes #4733. 2020-10-01 [bdubbs] - Update to grep-3.5. Fixes #4731. [bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.8.6. Fixes #4730. [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1h. Fixes #4729. [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.35.1. Fixes #4728. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.8.12. Fixes #4727. 2020-09-27 [bdubbs] - Add autoconf-2.69-consolidated_fixes-1.patch which allows autoconf tests to pass. 2020-09-15 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.8.9. Fixes #4723. 2020-09-02 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.8.5. Fixes #4721. [bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.10.1. Fixes #4719. [bdubbs] - Update to mpc-1.2.0. Fixes #4717. [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.55.1. Fixes #4716. [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.43. Fixes #4715. 2020-09-01 [bdubbs] - LFS-10.0 released.