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/

Zack Winkles 1f73d38dc1 Upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040510 and Tar 1.14 21 years ago
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chapter02 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 years ago
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chapter05 08684615e1 Removed some unneeded tags. 21 years ago
chapter06 dc20ac53fe Added a patch to fix race condition in sysklogd 21 years ago
chapter07 4a80bec1b7 Removed unused entries from nsswitch.conf 21 years ago
chapter08 52216a8930 Use full LFS version for GRUB entry 21 years ago
chapter09 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 years ago
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stylesheets 4238149d57 Navigational links: back again to use <ul> 21 years ago
INSTALL 287ea55da7 * Merged newxml into HEAD 21 years ago
Makefile 4f16f6b718 Add readline to the TODO list 21 years ago
README f067d1ded4 Corrected Makefile at suggestion of Richard Downing - make BASEDIR=/some/path instead of BASEDIR=/some/path make 21 years ago
TODO e4bf4c7e72 Changed the example of a program misbehaving in multibyte locales, because Zack fixed Vim 21 years ago
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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 PDF:
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make pdf &&
cp lfs.pdf /path/to/output/location