Changelog
If, for example, a change is listed for chapter 5 it (usually) means the
same change has been made in the chapters for the other architectures.
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Converted the SGML source to XML.
Chapter 4: Tell the user to use cfdisk rather than fdisk. The fdisk man
page recommends cfdisk over fdisk because it's more stable.
Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo and partially gettext to faciliate
the move of Glibc from Chapter 5 to Chapter 6.
Chapter 5: Added Makedev to chapter 5. We don't create the device files
here, only copy the MAKEDEV script and make a temp copy which will be
used to create device files. This second file (MAKEDEV-temp) doesn't
contain user names and group names but only user id's and group id's. We
need a few device files to get Glibc installed, but before GLibc is
installed user and group names are not recognized yet; only the numeric
id's. This requires a slightly modified MAKEDEV script which will be
generated by patching the original one. This patching is done here in
chapter 5. Also, fixed the explanations on both makedev installations.
Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is needed to compile
the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems (such as the upcoming
LFS-3.0 system).
Chapter 5+6: Upgraded from gcc-2.95.2 to gcc-2.95.2.1
Chapter 5+6: Moved Glibc from chapter 5 to chapter 6
Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils to libexecdir=/bin
Chapter 6: Updated Glibc installation instructions. 'configparms' file
creation has been deleted. No need to pick a compiler (either distro's
native or the /usr/local/gcc2952/bin/gcc one); we're in chroot
now so we'll use the one we have
Chapter 6: Only copy the man pages from the ld.so package. We don't need
the ldconfig and ldd programs anymore; Glibc-2.2.1 comes with good
working versions.
Chapter 6: Added the creation of the lex symlink to the flex
installation.
Chapter 6: Changed $* into "$@" in the yacc script during bison's
installation. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks.
Chapter 6: Fixed the man page installation during console-tools'
installation.
Chapter 6: When entering chroot the $TERM variable inside chroot is set
properly. This is accomplished by: chroot ... -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM ...
Chapter 6: Merged the different sulogin lines from the inittab file
into one line.
Chapter 7: Fixed the delays in the killproc function in the functions
script. Now after kill, first check PIDs, then sleep 2 if needed. More
details can be read in the comments in the script itself.