%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. 2013-04-29 [bdubbs] - Add bc to Chapter 6 to support Linux-3.9. Fixes #3338. 2013-04-28 [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.10. Fixes #3335. 2013-04-26 [bdubbs] - Upgrade to less-458. Fixes #3334. [bdubbs] - Upgrade to util-linux-2.23. Fixes #3311. 2013-04-24 [matthew] - Upgrade to Libpipeline-1.2.3. Fixes #3333. [matthew] - Upgrade to Tzdata-2013c. Fixes #3332. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.51. Fixes #3331. [matthew] - Upgrade to Check-0.9.10. Fixes #3330. 2013-04-23 [bdubbs] - Use default locations for kbd files because custom locations are no longer needed by the boot scripts. 2013-04-19 [bdubbs] - Update to udev-202 (systemd-202). Fixes #3329. 2013-04-17 [bdubbs] - Update to Linux-3.8.8. Fixes #3322. [bdubbs] - Update to Kmod-13. Fixes #3324. [bdubbs] - Update to Bison-2.7.1. Fixes #3327. 2013-04-16 [bdubbs] - Update list of installed libraries in GMP. [bdubbs] - Update to udev-201 (systemd-201). 2013-04-03 [bdubbs] - Fix a failure in the procps-ng test suite. 2013-04-01 [bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.5. Fixes #3320. [bdubbs] - Upgrade to Systemd-200. Fixes #3317 and #3321. [bdubbs] - Expand tcl space for regular expressions needed for some tests. [bdubbs] - Disable a g++ libmudflap test that always fails. 2013-03-29 [matthew] - Remove notes about enabling LTO support; both GCC and Binutils enable it by default now. [matthew] - Add texinfo related seds to Binutils pass1 and pass2 as hosts may have a new enough version of Texinfo to cause issues. [matthew] - Use --disable-install-libiberty to prevent GCC from installing libiberty.a (thanks to Armin K. for the pointer). Retain the existing sed, though, as the flag doesn't work correctly yet. [matthew] - Remove the now unnecessary instructions that prevented GCC's info files from being built; GCC-4.8.0 contains upstream fixes. 2013-03-28 [matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.23.2. Fixes #3318. [matthew] - Upgrade to Systemd-199. Fixes #3317. [matthew] - Upgrade to Procps-NG-3.3.7. Fixes #3316. [matthew] - Upgrade to Diffutils-3.3. Fixes #3315. [matthew] - Upgrade to File-5.14. Fixes #3313. [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.8.0. Fixes #3312. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the patch on which this was based. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.4. Fixes #3310. 2013-03-20 [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-lfs-198-3 to fix issues with libdrm installation in BLFS. Thanks to Nico P for the report, and to Armin for the fix. 2013-03-16 [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-lfs-198-2 to fix issues with keymap installation in BLFS. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.50. Fixes #3308. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.3. Fixes #3307. [matthew] - Upgrade to MPFR-3.1.2. Fixes #3306. [matthew] - Upgrade to Dejagnu-1.5.1. Fixes #3305. [matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-5.1. Fixes #3304. 2013-03-13 [matthew] - Fix a build issue with Check-0.9.9 on some hosts by adding the "sysroot" feature to Binutils. Thanks to Billy O'Connor, Yaacov-Yoseph Weiss and Pierre Labastie for the reports, and to Pierre again for the fix. [matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.16.3. Fixes #3303. [matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-4.2.45. Fixes #3301. [matthew] - Upgrade to Systemd-198. Fixes #3300. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.48. Fixes #3299. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.8.2. Fixes #3297. [matthew] - Upgrade to Tzdata-2013b. Fixes #3296. 2013-03-03 [matthew] - Remove extraneous ampersands in Kbd instructions. Thanks to Jason Daly for the report. 2013-03-01 [bdubbs] - LFS-7.3 released.