&version; - &releasedate; Updated to: MAKEDEV-1-1 binutils-2.11.2 e2fsprogs-1.22 file-3.36 groff-1.17.2 new ncurses patch-20010721 linux-2.4.7 sysvinit-2.81 autoconf-2.52 automake-1.4-p5 util-linux-2.11h man-pages-1.39 gettext-0.10.39 gcc-2.95.3 Chapter 5: A sed for fileutils-4.1 static has been added to avoid Segmentation Fault problems on AMD systems. Chapter 6: Util-linux sed command has been replaced with a flag to make. Chapter 6: Man patch replaced with sed command. Chapter 5 & 6: Changed tar patch to use -j for bzip2 files instead of -y in order to be compatible with next tar release. Also renamed patch file to tar-1.13.patch Chapter 6: Removed shadow-utils patch in favour of a sed command Chapter 6: Removed sysvinit patch in favour of a sed command. After much testing and discussing, it's been decided to downgrade to gcc-2.95.3 for the time being, until problems with the new gcc-3.0 version have been fixed. Chapter 5: Removed kernel patch for gcc-3.0 compilation Chapter 5: Added gcc-patch to fix re_max_failure compile problems Chapter 5: Added missing chown root.root $LFS/usr/include/linux to kernel installation Chapter 6: Removed the Groff command explanation regarding CXXFLAGS which has been made obsolete with the update to groff-1.17.1 Chapter 6: Moved the net-tools installation until after sh-utils so that net-tools can replace sh-utils's /bin/hostname. Chapter 7: Changed $* into "$@" in the functions and rc scripts. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks. Chapter 7: Added print_error_msg from the rcS script as it appears in the rc script as well. 3.0-pre4 - June 22nd, 2001 Chapter 5: Reordered the installations alphabetically. Chapter 6: Moved the installations of ed and patch into their alphabetical positions. Chapter 7: Added [ ATTN ] warning message to the functions script. When you attemp to start a service that's already running or stop a service that's not running, it'll not print FAILED anymore but [ ATTN ] along with "Already running" or "Not running". Chapter 9: Renamed the network-scripts directory in nic-config. 3.0-pre3 - May 12th, 2001 Added numerous FHS compliance notes. These instructions can be followed if one wishes to build a fully FHS-compliant system. Chapter 4: Updated the directory list to be more FHS compliant. Mainly this meant adding the opt directories and removing /usr/tmp and /usr/local/tmp Chapter 5: We now copy the kernel include directories instead of linking to them. This is theoretically safer if we plan on upgrading the kernel. Chapter 5+6: Removed fileutils-patch. After upgrading to fileutils-4.1 the patch isn't needed anymore. Chapter 5+6: Put back the instructions on how to copy/remove the old NSS library files, in case the original distribution uses glibc-2.0.x. Chapter 5: Added the notice about an old version of install-info. Chapter 5: Removed the installation of a static gettext. Chapter 6: Changed bin86's installation from "make PREFIX=/usr install" to "make INSTALL_OPTS="-m 755" PREFIX=/usr install". This will prevent install from invoking strip -s on the files. This fails because a couple of the installed files are shell scripts rather than programs, so they can't be stripped. Chapter 6: Removed the ld.so section since we only used the man pages and replaced it with a patch to man-pages. Chapter 7+8: Moved the creation of /etc/fstab to chapter 8. Appendix A: Added missing descriptions of frcode, code and bigram in the findutils-4.1 package. 3.0-pre2 - April 14th, 2001 Chapter 5: Simplified ln commands. Chapter 5: Removed prefix=$LFS/usr from tar's make install. Chapter 5+6: Removed --disable-nls from configuration of programs that don't need it (bash, diffutils, gzip, sed, m4). Chapter 5+6: Changed from "cd dir && make" to "make -C dir" (gettext-static, sysvinit). Chapter 5: Beautified the static link process for mawk. Chapter 5: Changed the links we create during gcc-installation to $LFS/usr/bin/cpp. Chapter 6: Changed the procps installation from sed'ing to an easier way. Chapter 6: Changed all "rm file && ln -s dest file" into "ln -sf file" (in glibc, bzip2 and gzip installations). Chapter 6: Added a sed to fix a problem during glibc-installation. pt_chown can not be installed setuid root, because "root" is not known by glibc yet (kind of hen and egg-problem). Chapter 6: Changed consoledata/tools to kbd, which is more actively developed, and less of a pain to install. Appendix A: Added the description of the Netkit-base and Net-tools packages. 3.0-pre1 - February 27th, 2001 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 4: Changed the wording to make it more general as ext2 no longer is the only used file system. Reiser for example is often used too now. 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: Recommended to install all the software while logged in (or su'ed to) user root. 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. Chapter 7: Added the explanation how the runlevels and boot process works when using the LFS scripts. Chapter 10: Added this chapter. It contains "thanks and good luck"notes and suggest creating the /etc/lfs-&version; file