&version; - &releasedate; Upgraded to: autoconf-2.54 automake-1.7.1 bison-1.75 e2fsprogs-1.29 groff-1.18.1 kbd-1.08 less-378 make-3.80 man-pages-1.53 modutils-2.4.21 ncurses-5.3 procps-3.0.4 psmisc-21.2 sed-4.0 util-linux-2.11w Added: findutils-4.1-segfault.patch kbd-1.08.patch libtool-1.4.2.patch Removed: kbd-1.06-3.patch ncurses-5.2-2.patch October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09: Added "What now?" section. October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Appendix B. October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Which Platform" section. October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Swapped chapter03 and chapter04. October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Where to store the downloaded software" and "How to install the software" sections. October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to bison-1.75, sed-4.0. Moved m4 before bison to meet its dependency. October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Linux-2.4.19: Replaced mkdir /usr/include/asm and cp command with cp -HR. October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added findutils-4.1-segfault.patch to fix a segfault in locate when it encounters a very long path name. October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added libtool-1.4.2.patch to fix an incompatibility between Autoconf 2.53 and Libtool 1.4.x. October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to automake-1.7.1, modutils-2.4.21, man-pages-1.53, kbd-1.08, util-linux-2.11w, autoconf-2.54, e2fsprogs-1.29, groff-1.18.1, psmisc-21.2, less-378, procps-3.0.4, make-3.80, ncurses-5.3. October 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Uncompressed patches. October 13th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Added -s to CC argument to make it consistent. October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Switched to gcc-core and gcc-g++. October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch. 4.0 - October 5th, 2002 October 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linuxthreads: Instead of cd man use the -C option to make which makes a lot more sense (and it's shorter too). September 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Fixed the old nofixincludes patch and reinstated it. September 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Correct reference to Debian to refer to the old stable release (potato) as it doesn't apply to the current one (woody). Reported by h2k1 on #lfs. 4.0-RC1 - September 28th, 2002 Upgraded to: automake-1.6.3 bin86-0.16.3 binutils-2.13 bison-1.35 diffutils-2.8.1 file-3.39 gawk-3.1.1 gcc-3.2 gettext-0.11.5 groff-1.18 gzip-1.2.4b.patch lfs-bootscripts-1.10 linux-2.4.19 MAKEDEV-1.7 man-1.5k man-pages-1.52 modutils-2.4.19 ncurses-5.2-2.patch perl-5.8.0 psmisc-21 texinfo-4.2 textutils-2.1 util-linux-2.11u Added: ed-0.2.patch fileutils-4.1.patch gawk-3.1.1-2.patch gcc-3.2.patch gcc-3.2-nofixincludes.patch glibc-2.2.5-2.patch gzip-1.2.4b.patch kbd-1.06-3.patch man-1.5k.patch ncurses-5.2.patch procps-2.0.7.patch sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch vim-6.1.patch zlib-1.1.4 Removed: gzip-1.2.4a.patch kbd-1.06-2.patch reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Added the nofixincludes patch to prevent that script from running in Chapter 05. It should run in Chapter 06, so we need it to be a seperate patch. September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Replaced the sed contruction with a regular patch. September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed the PREFIX=/usr from the make install command because the PREFIX is already set to /usr by default. September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Removed the FHS compliance notes. They are bogus because Vim doesn't use the localstatedir at all. September 28th, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch. Changed "$LFS" to "LFS" when speaking of the LFS environment variable. September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-related patches. September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Added - before tar options (for clarity). September 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's grammatic-fixes patch. September 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch. September 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Zlib: mv shared lib to /lib. September 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed the --enable-threads=posix flag since we don't build a C++ compiler in this chapter. September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Introduction: Removed paragraph about static linking since it seems misleading and is covered in better detail in Why Static. September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux: Removed cd command. September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: Removed old mv /lib/*.a /usr/lib command explanation. September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added --libdir=/usr/lib to the configure script options. This way a proper libshadow.la is generated. Also changed the mv command to move all the libshadow.so* files to the /lib directory. The lib*a files are already in the /usr/lib directory. September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Added another regex to the sed command that modifies the man.conf file. The added regex comments out the MANPATH /usr/man line which causes for duplicate results when using the whatis command September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added the Linux Threads Man Pages installation after the Perl installation. September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Create mtab link: Made the ln command an ln -sf so the existing /etc/mtab file, created by the mount command, will be removed before re-creating it as a symlink. September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Sh-utils: Added the sh-utils-hostname patch that supresses the build of the hostname program. This is done because the hostname program from the net-tools package is superior over this version. September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Updated the Gawk patch. It also changes the DDEFPATH directory location now. September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Added patch that fixes a locale problem that makes top crash under certain locale settings. September 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Creating a file system: Referenced alternative filesystems in BLFS. September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all superfluous /usr/lib/*.so symbolic links from library installations. September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to lfs-bootscripts-1.10 September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure Sysvinit: Changed the sulogin line to once instead of having it respawn. This way it'll behave as expected (ie: a CTRL+D will continue instead of restart sulogin). September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Added the --enable-clocale=gnu option to ensure the proper locale mode is used by the C++ libraries. September 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Grammatic changes. September 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's grammar changes patch. September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gzip: Added gzip-1.2.4b.patch. September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Textutils: Added re_max_failures2 for old host systems. September 2nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Bash: Removed creation of sh symlink. Creating the bash and sh symlinks: Added /bin/bash symlink, symlinked sh to bash. Gzip, Sysvinit, Util-Linux: Shortened cp command. Makedev: Removed /bin/bash creation and removal. Man: Modified sed statement to edit less call, so SGR will work. September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - About debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences. September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Install all software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the compilation of symbols in static packages. August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Makedev: Put rm /bin/bash after device creation. Perl: Removed information about the old patch. August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Re-added HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN; removed --enable-__cxa-atexit which was incorrect and not needed in this chapter; added information about the patch. August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new Glibc patch and introducted a GCC patch. August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to automake-1.6.3, gcc-3.2, groff-1.18, makedev-1.7, perl-5.8.0, util-linux-2.11u August 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Appendix: Added missing URLs to patches. August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06: Changed ln -sf to ln -s wherever possible. August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Binutils: cp libiberty.h after install, as it is needed by certain software. Shadow: added command to remove the groups program installed by Shadow because Sh-utils installs a (better) groups program. August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Re-added sh-utils-2.0.patch. August 16th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move man-pages to just after the kernel headers installation. August 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move the MAKEDEV installation to before glibc and remove the temporary creation of /dev/null as we don't need it anymore. August 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Preparing a new partition: mentioned that a swap partition can be shared between the LFS and host systems, grammatic changes. August 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed the --with-curses switch from the Bash installation as it's unnecessary here. August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to modutils-2.4.19, linux-2.4.19, gettext-0.11.5, binutils-2.13, textutils-2.1. August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Vim: changed alternative editors link from hints to BLFS. August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: removed the --disable-termcap configure option. Termcap is disabled by default now, so no need for this option (left over from a long time ago when it was needed). August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added the command cp include/asm-generic /usr/include. There are programs which use the files in there, as well as headers in the asm directory may be split up in the future, and put in the asm-generic. August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: added the missing program description of msgcat. August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4. August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52, man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils-2.4.18. July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs. Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39. July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 & 05 - Creating a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils, Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to auto-host.h. July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: added --disable-profile flag. July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux: added information about modules and kernel documentation. July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system: added a command to remove the static directory. July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step. July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Sysvinit: Simplified the sed command and updated the installation description because init now prints "Sending processes" instead of "Sending all processes". July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change - Made all patches use a &package-patch-version; entity and removed all hardcoding of patch versions. June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and automake-1.6.2 June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow, Util-linux, LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents. June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Net-tools, Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison, Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps, Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents. June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 & 06 - M4, Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added "last checked against" for uniformity. GCC: Removed i686-specific programs. June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gettext: Updated package contents. June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Binutils, Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description of c++filt. June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - The End: Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-&version; to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version number inside this file. June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Modified the build instructions and command explanations to only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed until after the second GCC build. June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: grammatic changes. June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Gawk: Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils: Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC: Updated the package contents. June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the estimated required disk space. June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p option to mkdir which will create the usr directory anyways. June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Reiserfsprogs: added a description for unpack. June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 - How to ask for help: mentioned the FAQ. June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up explanations following the /static change. June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface - Who would not want to read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar patch. June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors. Chapter 06 - Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 - Gawk: to avoid confusion, mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06. June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited to include reporting typos. May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1 systems. May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Update to binutils-2.12.1. May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer have the commands referred to there. May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the various sed fixes with a regular patch. May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch. May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch. May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch. May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership: removed the explicit command to chown /lost+found. This is done by the first command now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5. May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used one). May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1, bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2, modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix patches for ncurses, perl and vim. May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to chapter 06-binutils. May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk & Findutils: simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We can live with a $LFS/static/libexecdir being created. The whole $LFS/static directory is temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks like. May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories: removed the cd / command and changed the two chmod commands to use absolute paths instead. May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't wanted. May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5 into $LFS/static and re-ordered the installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path (files from $LFS/static). May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some more descriptions. May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some descriptions. May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some descriptions. May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some more descriptions. May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some descriptions. May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some more descriptions. May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info chown). May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some more descriptions. May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter 05 gzip instructions. May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML fixups; mainly altering <ulink> tags to remove erroneous &#13; in the HTML output. May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the missing descriptions. May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the symlink location of vigr to /usr/sbin May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error). May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the cd dir && ln -sf commands to one single command (such as ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh Same goes for cd dir && mv/cp constructions which are now replaced with constructions like mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS library files" section. May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds - gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR constructions and changed them to VAR=VALUE ./configure constructions. April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in updatedb. April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them, then you first need to create the /usr/lib/locale directory. April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to MAKEDEV-1.5 April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to cvs and split up index.xml. April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static pcre library. April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement ftp://ftp.de).