Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own customized Linux system entirely from source. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

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appendices ed21235c01 Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.5. Fixes #3019. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
bootscripts 9bb0228cb0 Bootscript change log. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
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chapter07 970a126c28 Update networking bootscripts. See bootscripts change log for details. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter08 654dc0d327 Fix gid in fstab %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter09 54d3ed5dbf Change to simple glibc version check in version-check.sh. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
images 192ac089b9 Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. %!s(int64=18) %!d(string=hai) anos
lsb-bootscripts 6b13ebc66a Remove oblolete references to consolelog %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
prologue 44f6add12a Adjust minimum version of xz-utils in Host Requirements. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
stylesheets a7f0b27405 Fix a pdf rendering issue %!s(int64=14) %!d(string=hai) anos
udev-config 0e038d1b86 Don't try to install documentation that was removed in udev-config-20090126. %!s(int64=15) %!d(string=hai) anos
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. %!s(int64=20) %!d(string=hai) anos
Makefile 924ab90abf Allow aux-file-data.sh to be run successfully from the command line, and rename validxml target to validate. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
README 2dc4a09ed1 Forcing an update to test RSS fixes. %!s(int64=16) %!d(string=hai) anos
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general.ent 1a3e6a31a7 Merge changes developed and tested in the jh branch %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
index.xml d944136079 Replaced deprecated w3.org XInclude throughout the book %!s(int64=15) %!d(string=hai) anos
make-aux-files.sh 43c2ecf0b8 Update to lfs-bootscripts-20110531. %!s(int64=14) %!d(string=hai) anos
obfuscate.sh 05d60cedcd Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. %!s(int64=18) %!d(string=hai) anos
packages.ent 1a3e6a31a7 Merge changes developed and tested in the jh branch %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
patches.ent 8335e5c48b Upgrade to Coreutils-8.16. Fixes #3048. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
pdf-fixups.sh e436213b71 Disable pdf-fixups.sh %!s(int64=14) %!d(string=hai) anos
process-scripts.sh 6c3ab2e4b6 Show sysconfig/udev_retry in Appendix D %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
tidy.conf 58f10f85ed HTML Tidy's newline detection appears to be broken. Force LF line endings assuming people are rendering on a Linux box %!s(int64=20) %!d(string=hai) anos

README

LFS Book README

This document is meant to instruct the user on how to convert the book's XML
source to other formats (e.g. HTML, PDF, PS and TXT). First, if you have not
already done so, please read the INSTALL file for instructions on how to install
the required software. If you have already completed the steps outlined in the
INSTALL file, then continue reading for examples how to convert these files into
various other formats.

XML to XHTML:
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make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location


XML to single file XHTML (nochunks):
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make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location nochunks


XML to TXT
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Follow the instructions for nochunks and then run:
lynx -dump /path/to/nochunks >/path/to/output


XML to PDF:
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make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location pdf