%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. 2014-03-02 [bdubbs] - Update host system requirements to address possible host installation of inconsistent libraries. 2014-02-18 [bdubbs] - Change kmod instructions to allow installation of man pages. Fixes #3502. 2014-02-16 [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.5.9. [bdubbs] - Incorporate beta FHS. Add /usr/share/ppd, /usr/libexec, /usr/share/color, /usr/local/share/color, /var/lib/color, and /usr/share/dict. [bdubbs] - Incorporate beta FHS. Remove overrides for /usr/libexec: coreutils, findutils, gawk, gcc, glibc, inetutils, man-db, and tar. Also fixes #3498. [bdubbs] - Incorporate beta FHS. Move grub sbin executables from /usr/sbin to /sbin. [bdubbs] - Document two new glibc errors in the regression tests. [bdubbs] - Move man-db after util-linux to satisfy a test dependency. [bdubbs] - Update automake tests to accommodate util-linux in /tools and to speed the test up. [bdubbs] - Restore building the flex static library. 2014-02-14 [bdubbs] - Make sed for omit-frame-pointers the same in Chapters 5 and 6. Fixes #3497. [bdubbs] - Simplify zimesone configuration in glibc. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes #3496. [bdubbs] - Let the glibc Makefile install rpc headers. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes #3495. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13.3. Fixes #3493. 2014-02-13 [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.17. Fixes #3491. [bdubbs] - Update to flex-2.5.38. Fixes #3492. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.58. Fixes #3490. 2014-02-10 [bdubbs] - Update coreutils i18n patch. Thanks to Igor Izivkov for pointing it out. Fixes #3488. 2014-02-08 [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.19. Fixes #3486. 2014-02-07 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13.2. Fixes #3485. 2014-02-05 [bdubbs] - Change expect library type in Chapter 5. Thanks to kammet for the report. Fixes #3484. [bdubbs] - Fix e2fsprogs tests to run properly in the LFS chroot environment. [bdubbs] - Remove unnecessary mkdir in groff. 2014-02-02 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13.1. Fixes #3483. 2014-01-27 [bdubbs] - Add an environment variable to util-linux in Chapter 5 to prevent an installation error for hosts that have unneeded capabilities available. 2014-01-26 [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.57. Fixes #3480. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.6.6. Fixes #3479. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13. Fixes #3478. 2014-01-25 [bdubbs] - Add a configure switch to util-linux in Chapter 5 to prevent an installation error for hosts that have systemd installed. 2014-01-22 [bdubbs] - Update to check-0.9.12. Fixes #3477. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.24.1. Fixes #3476. [bdubbs] - Update to mpc-1.0.2. Fixes #3474. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.56. Fixes #3470. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.12.7. Fixes #3469. [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.18.2. Fixes #3465. [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.18.3.2. Fixes #3464. 2014-01-21 [bdubbs] - Moved util-linux final build to be after udev. Fixed up e2fsprogs and udev to use the Chapter 5 build of util-linux. Fixes #3467. 2014-01-15 [bdubbs] - Added a Chapter 5 build of util-linux in preparation for moving the Chapter 6 build to after udev. This is not the complete fix as this build has not yet been incorporated into Chapter 6. [bdubbs] - Mount /run as a tmpfs for Chapter 6. 2014-01-14 [bdubbs] - Update to inetutils-1.9.2 and remove reference to old BLFS page. Fixes #3471 and #3473. [bdubbs] - Fix hardcoded reference to /tools in Chapter 6 gcc. Fixes #3466. [bdubbs] - Clean up /run and /tmp. Fixes #3463. 2014-01-02 [bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.16. Fixes #3418. 2013-12-29 [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.42.9. Fixes #3462. [bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.11. Fixes #3459. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-16. Fixes #3455. [bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.14.1. Fixes #3458. [bdubbs] - Update readline patch to upstream level. Fixes #3461. [bdubbs] - Use gcc version of libiberty.a. Fixes #3456. [bdubbs] - Use different URL for shadow. Fixes #3453. [bdubbs] - Update coreutils i18n patch to fix problem with uniq. Fixes #3457. [bdubbs] - Remove no longer needed makeinfo from Host System Requirements. Fixes #3460. 2013-12-22 [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.12.6. Fixes #3452. [matthew] - Update to Tzdata-2013i. Fixes #3451. [matthew] - Update to Libpipeline-1.2.6. Fixes #3449. [matthew] - Fix the coreutils-i18n patch, which introduced a regression in cut. Fixes #3448. 2013-12-16 [matthew] - Update to Coreutils-8.22. Fixes #3447. [matthew] - Update to Man-Pages-3.55. Fixes #3446. [matthew] - Update to Bison-3.0.2. Fixes #3442. [matthew] - Update to Libpipeline-1.2.5. Fixes #3440. [matthew] - Update to Binutils-2.24. Fixes #3438. [matthew] - Update to File-5.16. Fixes #3437. [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.12.5. Fixes #3436. 2013-12-13 [bdubbs] - Fix kmod, procps-ng, zlib, readline, ncurses, and xz methods of establishing correct symbolic links for libraries. [bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-3.3.9. Fixes #3439. [bdubbs] - Install non-essential programs from the xz package in /usr/bin. Fixes #3445. 2013-12-07 [bdubbs] - Enable building sulogin in util-linux. Suppress installing sysvinit's sulogin. Fixes #3435. [bdubbs] - Suppress installing sysvinit's mesg and last that overwrite the versions installed by util-linux. Thanks to Chris Staub. Fixes #3434. [bdubbs] - Add a sed to diffutils so locales are properly installed. Fixes #3433. [bdubbs] - Updates to the installed programs lists for several packages. Thanks to Chris Staub. Fixes #3432. [bdubbs] - Fix location of binaries and libraries for kmod and xz. Fixes #3443. 2013-11-23 [matthew] - Update to IPRoute2-3.12.0. Fixes #3431. [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.12.1. Fixes #3428. [matthew] - Update to Tar-1.27.1. Fixes #3425. [matthew] - Update to Bison-3.0.1. Fixes #3423. [matthew] - Update to Check-0.9.11. Fixes #3422. 2013-11-05 [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.12. Fixes #3421. [matthew] - Update to Kbd-2.0.1. Fixes #3420. [matthew] - Update to Tzdata-2013h. Fixes #3416. 2013-11-04 [bdubbs] - Disable pkg-config lookups in the Chapter 5 check program that may cause unwanted host system libraries to be linked into check. 2013-10-21 [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.24. Fixes #3415. 2013-10-19 [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.11.6. Fixes #3414. 2013-10-18 [matthew] - Update to GCC-4.8.2. Fixes #3413. 2013-10-15 [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.11.5. Fixes #3411. 2013-10-14 [matthew] - Update to Make 4.0. Fixes #3410. [matthew] - Update to Tar 1.27. Fixes #3409. 2013-10-08 [matthew] - Update stylesheets to docbook-xsl-1.78.1. 2013-10-06 [matthew] - Use xz version of M4 tarball. [matthew] - Update to Linux 3.11.4. Fixes #3408. 2013-10-02 [bdubbs] - Update to Udev 208 (extracted from systemd-208). Fixes #3406. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2013g. Fixes #3400. [bdubbs] - Update to File-5.15. Fixes #3402. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.11.3. Fixes #3403. [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-5.2. Fixes #3404. [bdubbs] - Update to gmp-5.1.3. Fixes #3405. 2013-09-23 [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.54. Fixes #3398. [bdubbs] - Update to tcl-8.6.1. Fixes #3399. [bdubbs] - Update to M4-1.4.17. Fixes #3401. 2013-09-15 [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.11.1. Fixes #3397. [matthew] - Update to Kbd-2.0.0. Fixes #3390. 2013-09-13 [bdubbs] - Update to systemd-207. Fixes #3396. 2013-09-10 [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.18.3.1. Fixes #3389. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-15. Fixes #3392. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-3.11.0. Fixes #3395. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.11.0. Fixes #3394. 2013-09-08 [bdubbs] - LFS-7.4 released.