%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. 2015-09-26 [bdubbs] - Add additional discussion about copying an LFS system from one machine to another. 2015-09-17 [bdubbs] - Provide non-wide-character ncurses instructions that are complient with version 5 of ncurses. 2015-09-16 [bdubbs] - Remove unneeded sed in e2fsprogs. 2015-09-07 [bdubbs] - LFS-7.8-rc1 released. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux 2.27. Fixes #3823. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.2. Fixes *3834. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.2.0. Fixes *3836. 2015-09-01 [bdubbs] - Increase host requirement for tar to version 1.22. Fixes #3835. [bdubbs] - Replace an old link to building software in Prerequisites section. Thanks to Simon Kitching. 2015-08-25 [bdubbs] - Add MPFR upstream fixes. 2015-08-23 [bdubbs] - Update to libpipeline-1.4.1. Fixes #3829. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.6. Fixes *3832. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.7.2. Fixes *3833. [bdubbs] - Add a patch to allow glibc to build properly on i386 systems. [bdubbs] - Remove obsolete r* programs from inetutils. 2015-08-11 [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2015f. Fixes #3830. [bdubbs] - Add a workaround to ncurses in Chapter 5 for hosts that have mawk installed. 2015-08-11 [bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-3.3.11. Fixes #3829. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.02. Fixes #3828. [bdubbs] - Update to ncurses-6.0. Fixes #3827. [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.22. Fixes *3826. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.5. Fixes *3825. 2015-08-03 [bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.25.1. Fixes *3820. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.3. Fixes *3821. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.01. Fixes #3822. [bdubbs] - Update to check-0.10.0. Fixes #3824. 2015-07-23 [krejzi] - Fixed a warning in the intltool-update perl script caused by perl-5.22. 2015-07-16 [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-5.2.0. Fixes *3819. [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.5.1. Fixes *3818. [bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.0.3. Fixes #3815. 2015-07-12 [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.1.1. Fixes *3811. [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.24. Fixes *3812. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.2. Fixes #3814. [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.19.5. Fixes #3813. [bdubbs] - Fix a warning in the installed automake perl script. #3809. 2015-07-04 [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.1.0. Fixes *3802. [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.0. Fixes *3803. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1.1. Fixes #3805. [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.24. Fixes #3806. [bdubbs] - Update perl installed files. Fixes #3804. 2015-06-23 [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2015e. Fixes *3798. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1.2. Fixes *3799. [bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-3.1.3. Fixes #3800. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.1. Fixes #3801. 2015-06-13 [bdubbs] - Simplify gcc-pass1 instructions. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the patch. Fixes #3797. 2015-06-10 [bdubbs] - Update standards discussion for FHS 3.0 and LSB-5.0. [bdubbs] - Update to inetutils-1.9.4. Fixes #3796. [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.23. Fixes #3795. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-21. Fixes #3794. 2015-06-07 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0.5. Fixes #3793. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1.1. Fixes #3792. 2015-06-05 [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.22.0. Fixes #3791. 2015-05-31 [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.1. Fixes #3790. 2015-05-25 [bdubbs] - Update to bash-4.3.30-upstream_fixes-2.patch. Fixes #3789. 2015-05-23 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0.4. Fixes #3786. [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.42.13. Fixes #3787. [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.1.3. Fixes #3788. [bdubbs] - Added a new patch for gcc to fix inline issues and some libgomp problems. 2015-05-15 [bdubbs] - Add a patch from upstream to fix some libgomp (gcc) problems. 2015-05-14 [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-4.1.2. Fixes #3781. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0.3. Fixes #3782. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.26.2. Fixes #3783. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-4.00. Fixes #3784. [bdubbs] - Update to inetutils-1.9.3. Fixes #3785. 2015-04-26 [bdubbs] - Updated to tzdata-2015d. Fixes #3780. 2015-04-24 [krejzi] - Added a fix for security issue in Glibc (CVE-2015-1781). Thanks to Ken Moffat for identifying the problem and the fix. [krejzi] - Fixed Ncurses and Perl build with GCC 5. Thanks to Ken Moffat and Douglas R. Reno for providing the patches. [krejzi] - Updated to GCC-5.1.0. Fixes #3779. 2015-04-21 [bdubbs] - Prevent /tools from being hard coded into eudev binaries. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.8.3. Fixes #3778. [bdubbs] - Suppress duplicate installation of attr man pages. 2015-04-16 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.0. Fixes #3775. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2015c. Fixes #3776. [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-4.0.0. Fixes #3777. 2015-03-31 [bdubbs] - Adjust discussion of LFS environment variable to be before first use. [bdubbs] - Use --with-glibc-version=2.11 in gcc-pass1. [bdubbs] - Update to dejagnu-1.5.3. Fixes #3773. 2015-03-28 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.19.3. Fixes #3772. [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata2015b. Fixes #3770. 2015-03-20 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.19.2. Fixes #3768. [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.0. Fixes #3769. 2015-03-15 [bdubbs] - Update to tcl-core-8.6.4. Fixes #3766. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.26.1. Fixes #3767. [bdubbs] - Remove non-essential static libraries from the installation. Added a new section in Chapter 6 Introduction, suppressed many static libraries in different packages, and removed the remaining in the Cleaning Up section. Fixes #3751. 2015-03-11 [bdubbs] - Update to intltool-0.51.0. Fixes #3764. 2015-03-08 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.19.1. Fixes #3763. [bdubbs] - Update to patch-2.7.5. Fixes #3762. [bdubbs] - Change tcl to minimal tcl-core package. Fixes #3752. 2015-03-07 [bdubbs] - Update to mpc-1.0.3. Fixes #3753. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.8.1. Fixes #3754. [bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.2.1. Fixes #3757. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-20. Fixes #3758. 2015-03-06 [bdubbs] - LFS-7.7 released.