lfs-book/chapter01/changelog.xml

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<title>Changelog</title>
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<para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>

<para>4.1 - April 28th, 2003</para>

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<listitem><para>Upgraded to:
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<listitem><para>autoconf-2.57</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>automake-1.7.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bison-1.875</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.32</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1-3.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.2.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>groff-1.18.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>kbd-1.08</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>less-378</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.11</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libtool-1.4.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.4.20</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>make-3.80</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5k-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.54</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.22</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procps-3.1.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>psmisc-21.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sed-4.0.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>texinfo-4.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11y</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:
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<listitem><para>findutils-4.1-segfault.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>kbd-1.08.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5k-80cols.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5k-manpath.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5k-pager.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Removed:
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<listitem><para>gcc-3.2.1-nofixincludes-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>kbd-1.06-3.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5k-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 3rd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to
lfs-bootscripts-1.11 to implement Seth Klein's mtab changes (see entry
below this one).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 3rd, 2003 [sklein]: Chapter 06: Changed
<filename>/etc/mtab</filename> from a symlink to a file.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 29th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Changed the
install target to install-no-fixedincludes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 29th, 2003 [gerard]: Downgraded to binutils-2.13.2
due to a GCC bug that can't parse the version string of binutils 2.13.2.1.
The only changes between 2.13.2 and 2.13.2.1 are documentation changes, so
there is no actual code downgrade. A better fix will be added to the book
later.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 27th, 2003 [gerard, timothy, billy]: Converted the
software installation pages into a new format. Also merged software
installations with their configure components from "Configuring essential
software".</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 22nd, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Configuring
essential software: Corrected kernel directory for keymap
location.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Added a new chroot command after
the second Glibc installation that is to be used from that point
onwards.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9th, 2003 [timothy]: Appendix A - Gzip:
Added patch URL.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 9th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Findutils:
Removed -D_GNU_SOURCE flag for now because it's breaking compilation;
4 people have reported this bug.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 8th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Findutils:
Added missing <emphasis>/</emphasis> before <filename>configure</filename>
line.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bison: removed
yacc script creation. Bison now installs this by default.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to Binutils-2.13.2.1,
Bison-1.875 and Man-pages-1.54</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Findutils:
Added <emphasis>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE</emphasis> to promote proper
compiling on non-x86 architectures.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Zlib: Added CFLAGS
variable to define -fPIC so the dynamic library gets compiled properly at
all times.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 5th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Applied a revised
version of Alex's patch to split the <emphasis>Install all software as an
unprivileged user</emphasis> page into two pages: <emphasis>Adding the user
lfs</emphasis> and <emphasis>Setting up the
environment</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - All packages whose
configure script supports the LDFLAGS environment variable now use it
rather than passing the variable down to
<userinput>make</userinput>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Fixed the gawk
patch. <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> will no longer wipe out the
<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> directory. Also, renamed
<filename class="directory">/usr/share/gawk</filename> to
<filename class="directory">/usr/share/gawk-3.1.1</filename>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the glibc-2.3.1
mega-patch with two separate patches (glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch and
glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the man-1.5k
mega-patch with three separate patches (man-1.5k-80cols.patch,
man-1.5k-manpath.patch and man-1.5k-pager.patch).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc Second Pass:
Fixed typo in linuxthreads man pages installation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux Kernel: The
man pages can't be installed here because it requires Perl. Moved to end of
chapter 6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Updated the
patch so man pages are formatted properly on screens with more than 80
columns.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added
<emphasis>make mandocs</emphasis> to create man pages and copy them to
<filename
class="directory">/usr/share/man/man9</filename></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Changed
the download location to http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added second
Glibc installation at the end of the chapter. Removed the separate
linuxthreads man-pages installation and moved that to the second Glibc
installation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
Glibc-2.3.1</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed
nofixincludes patch and use the built-in
<emphasis>install-no-fixedincludes</emphasis> make
target.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed
<emphasis>HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN</emphasis>, added <emphasis>--with-ld and
--with-as</emphasis> configure switches.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to
binutils-2.13.2, procps-3.1.5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05:
Changed all LDFLAGS=-static to LDFLAGS="-static".</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Flex:
Added symlink from libfl.a to libl.a.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to
sed-4.0.5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to
procps-3.1.4.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 17th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 5 &amp; 6: Modified
paragraphs about unpacking patches since they are no longer
compressed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to autoconf-2.57,
automake-1.7.2, binutils-2.13.1, e2fsprogs-1.32, gcc-3.2.1, libtool-1.4.3,
linux-2.4.20, modutils-2.4.22, procps-3.1.3, sed-4.0.4, texinfo-4.3,
util-linux-2.11y.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Removed
warning about --enable-kernel.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Changed all
links into Freshmeat.net project links, removed lfs-packages tarball. This
was done because the LFS FTP archive won't contain the packages anymore,
instead you have to go to the package's download sites to get
them.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Renamed
<emphasis>usbdevfs</emphasis> into <emphasis>usbfs</emphasis> as the kernel
guys made this change to reduce confusion with
<emphasis>devfs</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sed: Added
--disable-nls</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 03 - Creating
filesystem: Added a note that <userinput>mkswap</userinput> has to be run
if a new swap partition has been created.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed
unnecessary lines that first create a symlink, then remove it
again.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Updated
the download URL.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Removed
the <emphasis>PROCESSEDEXAMPLEFILES=""</emphasis>
variables.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Added
"Prerequisites" section.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09: Added "What now?"
section.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed
Appendix B.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Which
Platform" section.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Swapped chapter03 and
chapter04.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Where
to store the downloaded software" and "How to install the software"
sections.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to bison-1.75,
sed-4.0. Moved m4 before bison to meet its dependency.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Linux-2.4.19:
Replaced <userinput>mkdir /usr/include/asm</userinput> and
<userinput>cp</userinput> command with
<userinput>cp -HR</userinput>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added findutils-4.1-segfault.patch
to fix a segfault in locate when it encounters a very long path
name.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added libtool-1.4.2.patch to fix
an incompatibility between Autoconf 2.53 and Libtool 1.4.x.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to automake-1.7.1,
modutils-2.4.21, man-pages-1.53, kbd-1.08, util-linux-2.11w, autoconf-2.54,
e2fsprogs-1.29, groff-1.18.1, psmisc-21.2, less-378, procps-3.0.4,
make-3.80, ncurses-5.3.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Uncompressed
patches.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 13th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Added -s 
to CC argument to make it consistent.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Switched to gcc-core and
gcc-g++.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Applied Bill
Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.</para></listitem>

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