%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. 2008-10-05 [randy] - Updated the Bash Fixes patch to the -8 version. [randy] - Added a patch to the Expect instructions to fix an issue with recent Tcl versions. [randy] - Updated Tcl to 8.5.4. [randy] - Updated the Linux kernel to 2.6.26.5. [randy] - Updated Glibc to a 2.8 snapshot taken on 9/29/2008. The tarball of this snapshot includes the libidn data that previously was separately packaged. [randy] - Added the GMP and MPFR packages to the list of packages in Chapter 3. Thanks to Lefteris Dimitroulakis for pointing out the omission. 2008-10-03 [bdubbs] - Added version check for Perl in Host System Requirements. [randy] - Updated GCC to 4.3.2 which includes adding the GMP-4.2.4 and MPFR-2.3.2 packages. This new version of GCC requires the added packages. Thanks to DJ Lucas for the stimulus and initial work resulting in this and all of the other package updates coming up. 2008-07-11 [ken] - Belatedly fixed known vulnerabilities in perl. 2008-06-03 [bdubbs] - Added udev-config scripts to appendices. [bdubbs] - Added lfs-bootscripts to appendices. [bdubbs] - Updated license to Creative Commons with extracted code under the MIT license. 2008-05-23 [bryan] - Install a few extra rules from the etc/udev/packages directory in udev. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for noticing the issue. 2008-05-22 [bryan] - Updated Udev to 122, udev-config to 20080522, and lfs-bootscripts to 20080522. Also made persistent-net rules able to be pre-generated, using udevadm test. Fixes #2057, #2079 (I think), #2170, and #2186. 2008-04-23 [jhuntwork] - Use -mtune=native for glibc. We don't want our libc optimized for 486. It should be optimized for the local machine. [jhuntwork] - Updated Autoconf to 2.62. [jhuntwork] - Updated E2fsprogs to 1.40.8. Fixes #2173. [jhuntwork] - Fixed behavior in kbd where man pages for optional programs that aren't built are installed. Thanks Greg Schafer for spotting this. [jhuntwork] - Fixed kbd to install getkeycodes, setkeycodes and resizecons. Also moved loadkeys to /bin from /usr/bin. Thanks, Greg Schafer. 2008-04-22 [jhuntwork] - Updated Kbd to 1.14.1. Fixes #2162. [jhuntwork] - Updated Flex to 2.5.35. Fixes #2179. 2008-04-11 [bdubbs] - Updated host requirments to check for symbolic links from sh, awk, and yacc. 2008-04-03 [jhuntwork] - Suppress installation of uptime in coreutils. Thanks to Randy McMurchy. Fixes #2133. [jhuntwork] - Upgraded to iana-etc-2.30. Fixes #2174. [jhuntwork] - Added patch for 256-byte inode support in GRUB. Fixes #2161. 2008-04-02 [jhuntwork] - Updated to linux-2.6.24.4, fixes #2157. [jhuntwork] - Added an upstream patch for db-4.6.21, thanks Randy McMurchy for the report. Fixes #2164. 2008-03-30 [dnicholson] - Added --sysconfdir parameter to Man-db's configure command so that man_db.conf is installed in /etc. 2008-03-27 [ken] - Updated bzip2 to 1.0.5, fixes CVE-2008-1372. 2008-02-26 [ken] - Corrected typo in name of ru-ms keymap. [ken] - Updated Kbd to 1.13. 2008-02-24 [matthew] - Add --libexecdir parameter to Man-db's configure command so that globbing and manconv are installed into /usr/libexec/man-db. Fixes #2153. Also, remove the --enable-mb-groff parameter, as this is now detected automatically. 2008-02-19 [ken] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3, thanks to Matthew for the fix for automated builds. [ken] - Updated Flex to 2.5.34. [ken] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4. 2008-02-17 [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream Vim patches. [matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.18. Fixes #2146. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.78. Fixes #2152. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.1. Fixes #2148. [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24.2. Fixes #2147. [matthew] - Now that mktemp is installed by Coreutils in chapter 5, there is no need to fix up GCC's gccbug in chapter 6. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report. [matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.33. Fixes #2151. [matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.6. Fixes #2149. 2008-02-07 [matthew] - Added a patch to fix a known issue in the Automake test suite. Fixes #2143. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.77. Fixes #2142. [matthew] - Upgraded to Libtool-1.5.26. Fixes #2141. [matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.2.3. Fixes #2140. [matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-6.10. Removed Mktemp-1.5 as Coreutils provides its own implementation now. Removed the coreutils binary suppression patch as the configure script can now be given a list of programs not to install. Fixes #2133. [matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.5. Fixes #2138. 2008-01-29 [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24. Fixes #2137. [matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.32. Fixes #2136. [matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.1. Fixes #2132. 2008-01-22 [matthew] - Replaced Util-Linux-2.12r, with Util-Linux-NG-2.13.1. Fixes #2077. [matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes #2131. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.76. Fixes #2129. [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.14. Fixes #2128. 2008-01-19 [matthew] - Add Perl to the list of host requirements, as it is required by Glibc. Thanks to Ben Collver for the report. Fixes #2112. [matthew] - Mention strace as another means of logging installed files, and correct the URL of the Linux Standard Base specifications. Fixes #2073 and #2130. 2008-01-04 [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. [matthew] - Upgraded to Less-418. Fixes #2124. [matthew] - Upgraded to File-4.23. Fixes #2125. [matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.4. Fixes #2123. 2007-12-23 [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Readline. Fixes #2122. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.74. Fixes #2119. [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.12. Fixes #2118. [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Bash. Fixes #2121. 2007-12-08 [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. Fixes #2108. [matthew] - Upgraded to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes #2074. [matthew] - Upgraded to Psmisc-22.6. Fixes #2104. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.70. Fixes #2110. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.0. Fixes #2109. [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.9. Fixes #2106. [matthew] - Upgraded to Less-416. Fixes #2105. [matthew] - Upgraded to Gettext-0.17. Fixes #2103. [matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around. Fixes #2107. Thanks to Erik-Jan for the report. [matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around. Fixes #2107. Thanks to Erik-Jan for the report. [matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.3. Fixes #2116. 2007-11-25 [bdubbs] - Fixed test for Debian binutils. 2007-10-29 [bdubbs] - Removed obsolete note from Creating Symlinks section about continuation lines in udev rules. Changed dailout group to uucp for udev rule compatability. [matthew] - Upgrade to the latest upstream patches for Vim. [matthew] - Add a patch to fix a segfault in usb_id. [matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.16. Fixes #2084. [matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.19. Fixes #2090. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.67. Fixes #2078. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.23.1. Fixes #2088. [matthew] - Upgrade to Less-409. Fixes #2087. [matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.23. Fixes #2091. [matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.7. Fixes #2095. [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.2. Fixes #2089. [matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.6. Fixes #2098. [matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.21. Fixes #2086. 2007-09-25 [manuel] - More updates in dependencies list. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 2007-09-23 [manuel] - Updated dependencies list. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 2007-09-21 [manuel] - Fixed glibc-libidn tarball extension. 2007-09-18 [manuel] - Added remap attributes to userinput tags in packages pages to help adding package manager support and other extensions into jhalfs. Made all testsuite commands screen blocks for consistency. 2007-09-16 [manuel] - Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 2007-09-15 [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Vim. [matthew] - Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes #2055. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline. Fixes #2068. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.64. Fixes #2061. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.6. Fixes #2070. [jhuntwork] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes #2018. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch, Robert Connolly and Dan Nicholson for investigating how best to adjust CFLAGS, and Greg Schafer for showing the technical benefits of using CFLAGS with Glibc. [jhuntwork] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.1. Fixes #2002. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch. [matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes #2051. [matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.18. Fixes #2069. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes #2067. 2007-09-07 [manuel] - Added sect1info metainformation blocks to packages pages to help adding package manager support into jhalfs. LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.