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  9. <title>Changelog</title>
  10. <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  11. &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
  12. version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  13. mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
  14. <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  15. book.</para>
  16. <itemizedlist>
  17. <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
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  20. <para>Date</para>
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  22. <listitem>
  23. <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
  24. </listitem>
  25. <listitem>
  26. <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
  27. </listitem>
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  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>April 12, 2006</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
  36. Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. <listitem>
  39. <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust some redundant text in Berkeley DB page.</para>
  40. </listitem>
  41. <listitem>
  42. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
  43. Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
  44. convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
  45. Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
  46. </listitem>
  47. <listitem>
  48. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
  49. in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
  50. the symlink we used to create.</para>
  51. </listitem>
  52. </itemizedlist>
  53. </listitem>
  54. <listitem>
  55. <para>April 11, 2006</para>
  56. <itemizedlist>
  57. <listitem>
  58. <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
  59. </listitem>
  60. </itemizedlist>
  61. </listitem>
  62. <listitem>
  63. <para>April 6, 2006</para>
  64. <itemizedlist>
  65. <listitem>
  66. <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
  67. links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
  68. </listitem>
  69. <listitem>
  70. <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
  71. </listitem>
  72. </itemizedlist>
  73. </listitem>
  74. <listitem>
  75. <para>March 30, 2006</para>
  76. <itemizedlist>
  77. <listitem>
  78. <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
  79. Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
  80. </listitem>
  81. </itemizedlist>
  82. </listitem>
  83. <listitem>
  84. <para>March 29, 2006</para>
  85. <itemizedlist>
  86. <listitem>
  87. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
  88. to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
  89. the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
  90. </listitem>
  91. </itemizedlist>
  92. </listitem>
  93. <listitem>
  94. <para>March 22, 2006</para>
  95. <itemizedlist>
  96. <listitem>
  97. <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060321.</para>
  98. </listitem>
  99. </itemizedlist>
  100. </listitem>
  101. <listitem>
  102. <para>March 18, 2006</para>
  103. <itemizedlist>
  104. <listitem>
  105. <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
  106. is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
  107. patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
  108. </listitem>
  109. <listitem>
  110. <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
  111. tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
  112. #1713.</para>
  113. </listitem>
  114. <listitem>
  115. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
  116. </listitem>
  117. <listitem>
  118. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
  119. </listitem>
  120. <listitem>
  121. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
  122. </listitem>
  123. <listitem>
  124. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
  125. </listitem>
  126. <listitem>
  127. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
  128. </listitem>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
  131. patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
  132. installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
  133. </listitem>
  134. </itemizedlist>
  135. </listitem>
  136. <listitem>
  137. <para>March 11, 2006</para>
  138. <itemizedlist>
  139. <listitem>
  140. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
  141. </listitem>
  142. </itemizedlist>
  143. </listitem>
  144. <listitem>
  145. <para>March 8, 2006</para>
  146. <itemizedlist>
  147. <listitem>
  148. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
  149. </listitem>
  150. </itemizedlist>
  151. </listitem>
  152. <listitem>
  153. <para>March 7, 2006</para>
  154. <itemizedlist>
  155. <listitem>
  156. <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
  157. LFS-style patch.</para>
  158. </listitem>
  159. </itemizedlist>
  160. </listitem>
  161. <listitem>
  162. <para>March 3, 2006</para>
  163. <itemizedlist>
  164. <listitem>
  165. <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
  166. to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
  167. </listitem>
  168. </itemizedlist>
  169. </listitem>
  170. <listitem>
  171. <para>March 1, 2006</para>
  172. <itemizedlist>
  173. <listitem>
  174. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
  175. help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
  176. </listitem>
  177. </itemizedlist>
  178. </listitem>
  179. <listitem>
  180. <para>February 27, 2006</para>
  181. <itemizedlist>
  182. <listitem>
  183. <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
  184. upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
  185. </listitem>
  186. </itemizedlist>
  187. </listitem>
  188. <listitem>
  189. <para>February 20, 2006</para>
  190. <itemizedlist>
  191. <listitem>
  192. <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
  193. </listitem>
  194. <listitem>
  195. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
  196. </listitem>
  197. </itemizedlist>
  198. </listitem>
  199. <listitem>
  200. <para>February 19, 2006</para>
  201. <itemizedlist>
  202. <listitem>
  203. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
  204. to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
  205. </listitem>
  206. <listitem>
  207. <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
  208. --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
  209. for the report and the fix.</para>
  210. </listitem>
  211. <listitem>
  212. <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
  213. </listitem>
  214. <listitem>
  215. <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
  216. </listitem>
  217. <listitem>
  218. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
  219. </listitem>
  220. <listitem>
  221. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
  222. </listitem>
  223. <listitem>
  224. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
  225. </listitem>
  226. <listitem>
  227. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
  228. </listitem>
  229. <listitem>
  230. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
  231. vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
  232. </listitem>
  233. <listitem>
  234. <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
  235. Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
  236. </listitem>
  237. </itemizedlist>
  238. </listitem>
  239. <listitem>
  240. <para>February 10, 2006</para>
  241. <itemizedlist>
  242. <listitem>
  243. <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
  244. changes.</para>
  245. </listitem>
  246. </itemizedlist>
  247. </listitem>
  248. <listitem>
  249. <para>January 30, 2006</para>
  250. <itemizedlist>
  251. <listitem>
  252. <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
  253. on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
  254. of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
  255. </listitem>
  256. <listitem>
  257. <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
  258. Staub.</para>
  259. </listitem>
  260. <listitem>
  261. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
  262. pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
  263. </listitem>
  264. </itemizedlist>
  265. </listitem>
  266. <listitem>
  267. <para>January 29, 2006</para>
  268. <itemizedlist>
  269. <listitem>
  270. <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
  271. </listitem>
  272. <listitem>
  273. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
  274. readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
  275. </listitem>
  276. </itemizedlist>
  277. </listitem>
  278. <listitem>
  279. <para>January 26, 2006</para>
  280. <itemizedlist>
  281. <listitem>
  282. <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
  283. allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
  284. </listitem>
  285. <listitem>
  286. <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
  287. for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
  288. sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
  289. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
  290. </listitem>
  291. <listitem>
  292. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
  293. section.</para>
  294. </listitem>
  295. </itemizedlist>
  296. </listitem>
  297. <listitem>
  298. <para>January 25, 2006</para>
  299. <itemizedlist>
  300. <listitem>
  301. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
  302. patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
  303. </listitem>
  304. <listitem>
  305. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
  306. the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
  307. and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
  308. </listitem>
  309. <listitem>
  310. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
  311. 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
  312. so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
  313. Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
  314. chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
  315. Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
  316. issue.</para>
  317. </listitem>
  318. <listitem>
  319. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
  320. <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
  321. coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
  322. Alexander Patrakov.</para>
  323. </listitem>
  324. <listitem>
  325. <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
  326. the BLFS project for the text.</para>
  327. </listitem>
  328. </itemizedlist>
  329. </listitem>
  330. <listitem>
  331. <para>January 24, 2006</para>
  332. <itemizedlist>
  333. <listitem>
  334. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
  335. </listitem>
  336. </itemizedlist>
  337. </listitem>
  338. <listitem>
  339. <para>January 23, 2006</para>
  340. <itemizedlist>
  341. <listitem>
  342. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
  343. </listitem>
  344. <listitem>
  345. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
  346. </listitem>
  347. <listitem>
  348. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
  349. </listitem>
  350. <listitem>
  351. <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
  352. to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
  353. </listitem>
  354. <listitem>
  355. <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
  356. compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
  357. Patrakov for the patch.</para>
  358. </listitem>
  359. </itemizedlist>
  360. </listitem>
  361. <listitem>
  362. <para>January 20, 2006</para>
  363. <itemizedlist>
  364. <listitem>
  365. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
  366. vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
  367. it out.</para>
  368. </listitem>
  369. </itemizedlist>
  370. </listitem>
  371. <listitem>
  372. <para>January 17, 2006</para>
  373. <itemizedlist>
  374. <listitem>
  375. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
  376. to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
  377. </listitem>
  378. </itemizedlist>
  379. </listitem>
  380. <listitem>
  381. <para>January 10, 2006</para>
  382. <itemizedlist>
  383. <listitem>
  384. <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
  385. difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
  386. to Greg Schafer.</para>
  387. </listitem>
  388. <listitem>
  389. <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
  390. gccbug.</para>
  391. </listitem>
  392. </itemizedlist>
  393. </listitem>
  394. <listitem>
  395. <para>January 7, 2006</para>
  396. <itemizedlist>
  397. <listitem>
  398. <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
  399. /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
  400. 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
  401. for explaining this.</para>
  402. </listitem>
  403. <listitem>
  404. <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
  405. will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
  406. </listitem>
  407. <listitem>
  408. <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
  409. use mktemp.</para>
  410. </listitem>
  411. <listitem>
  412. <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
  413. '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
  414. Randy McMurchy.</para>
  415. </listitem>
  416. </itemizedlist>
  417. </listitem>
  418. <listitem>
  419. <para>January 5, 2006</para>
  420. <itemizedlist>
  421. <listitem>
  422. <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
  423. have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
  424. </listitem>
  425. <listitem>
  426. <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
  427. Alexander Patrakov.</para>
  428. </listitem>
  429. </itemizedlist>
  430. </listitem>
  431. <listitem>
  432. <para>January 3, 2006</para>
  433. <itemizedlist>
  434. <listitem>
  435. <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
  436. configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
  437. </listitem>
  438. <listitem>
  439. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
  440. </listitem>
  441. <listitem>
  442. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
  443. </listitem>
  444. <listitem>
  445. <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
  446. chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
  447. </listitem>
  448. </itemizedlist>
  449. </listitem>
  450. <listitem>
  451. <para>December 31, 2005</para>
  452. <itemizedlist>
  453. <listitem>
  454. <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
  455. to be repeatable.</para>
  456. </listitem>
  457. </itemizedlist>
  458. </listitem>
  459. <listitem>
  460. <para>December 23, 2005</para>
  461. <itemizedlist>
  462. <listitem>
  463. <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
  464. </listitem>
  465. </itemizedlist>
  466. </listitem>
  467. <listitem>
  468. <para>December 21, 2005</para>
  469. <itemizedlist>
  470. <listitem>
  471. <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
  472. Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
  473. </listitem>
  474. </itemizedlist>
  475. </listitem>
  476. <listitem>
  477. <para>December 17, 2005</para>
  478. <itemizedlist>
  479. <listitem>
  480. <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
  481. configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
  482. </listitem>
  483. <listitem>
  484. <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
  485. bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
  486. Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
  487. </listitem>
  488. <listitem>
  489. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
  490. </listitem>
  491. <listitem>
  492. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
  493. </listitem>
  494. </itemizedlist>
  495. </listitem>
  496. <listitem>
  497. <para>December 16, 2005</para>
  498. <itemizedlist>
  499. <listitem>
  500. <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
  501. testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
  502. </listitem>
  503. </itemizedlist>
  504. </listitem>
  505. <listitem>
  506. <para>December 13, 2005</para>
  507. <itemizedlist>
  508. <listitem>
  509. <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
  510. allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
  511. Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
  512. bug 1670).</para>
  513. </listitem>
  514. </itemizedlist>
  515. </listitem>
  516. <listitem>
  517. <para>December 12, 2005</para>
  518. <itemizedlist>
  519. <listitem>
  520. <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
  521. with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
  522. Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
  523. </listitem>
  524. </itemizedlist>
  525. </listitem>
  526. <listitem>
  527. <para>December 11, 2005</para>
  528. <itemizedlist>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
  531. </listitem>
  532. <listitem>
  533. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
  534. </listitem>
  535. <listitem>
  536. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
  537. and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
  538. </listitem>
  539. <listitem>
  540. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
  541. the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
  542. Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
  543. </listitem>
  544. <listitem>
  545. <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
  546. in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
  547. </listitem>
  548. </itemizedlist>
  549. </listitem>
  550. <listitem>
  551. <para>December 9, 2005</para>
  552. <itemizedlist>
  553. <listitem>
  554. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
  555. </listitem>
  556. <listitem>
  557. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
  558. </para>
  559. </listitem>
  560. <listitem>
  561. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
  562. </listitem>
  563. </itemizedlist>
  564. </listitem>
  565. <listitem>
  566. <para>December 7, 2005</para>
  567. <itemizedlist>
  568. <listitem>
  569. <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
  570. packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
  571. and analysis of affected packages.</para>
  572. </listitem>
  573. </itemizedlist>
  574. </listitem>
  575. <listitem>
  576. <para>November 26, 2005</para>
  577. <itemizedlist>
  578. <listitem>
  579. <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
  580. threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
  581. man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
  582. </listitem>
  583. <listitem>
  584. <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
  585. a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
  586. </listitem>
  587. <listitem>
  588. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
  589. </listitem>
  590. <listitem>
  591. <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
  592. for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
  593. McMurchy for the report).</para>
  594. </listitem>
  595. <listitem>
  596. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
  597. </listitem>
  598. <listitem>
  599. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
  600. </listitem>
  601. <listitem>
  602. <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
  603. unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
  604. </listitem>
  605. </itemizedlist>
  606. </listitem>
  607. <listitem>
  608. <para>November 24, 2005</para>
  609. <itemizedlist>
  610. <listitem>
  611. <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
  612. </listitem>
  613. </itemizedlist>
  614. </listitem>
  615. <listitem>
  616. <para>November 23, 2005</para>
  617. <itemizedlist>
  618. <listitem>
  619. <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
  620. documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
  621. </listitem>
  622. </itemizedlist>
  623. </listitem>
  624. <listitem>
  625. <para>November 18, 2005</para>
  626. <itemizedlist>
  627. <listitem>
  628. <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
  629. package.</para>
  630. </listitem>
  631. </itemizedlist>
  632. </listitem>
  633. <listitem>
  634. <para>November 17, 2005</para>
  635. <itemizedlist>
  636. <listitem>
  637. <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
  638. </listitem>
  639. </itemizedlist>
  640. </listitem>
  641. <listitem>
  642. <para>November 16, 2005</para>
  643. <itemizedlist>
  644. <listitem>
  645. <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
  646. chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
  647. </listitem>
  648. </itemizedlist>
  649. </listitem>
  650. <listitem>
  651. <para>November 15, 2005</para>
  652. <itemizedlist>
  653. <listitem>
  654. <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
  655. to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
  656. </listitem>
  657. </itemizedlist>
  658. </listitem>
  659. <listitem>
  660. <para>November 14, 2005</para>
  661. <itemizedlist>
  662. <listitem>
  663. <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
  664. gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
  665. gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
  666. Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
  667. </listitem>
  668. </itemizedlist>
  669. </listitem>
  670. <listitem>
  671. <para>November 12, 2005</para>
  672. <itemizedlist>
  673. <listitem>
  674. <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
  675. is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
  676. Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
  677. issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
  678. </listitem>
  679. <listitem>
  680. <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
  681. </listitem>
  682. <listitem>
  683. <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
  684. Chris Staub.</para>
  685. </listitem>
  686. </itemizedlist>
  687. </listitem>
  688. <listitem>
  689. <para>November 11, 2005</para>
  690. <itemizedlist>
  691. <listitem>
  692. <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
  693. as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
  694. </listitem>
  695. </itemizedlist>
  696. </listitem>
  697. <listitem>
  698. <para>November 10, 2005</para>
  699. <itemizedlist>
  700. <listitem>
  701. <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
  702. Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
  703. </listitem>
  704. </itemizedlist>
  705. </listitem>
  706. <listitem>
  707. <para>November 7, 2005</para>
  708. <itemizedlist>
  709. <listitem>
  710. <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
  711. of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
  712. </listitem>
  713. <listitem>
  714. <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
  715. GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
  716. option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
  717. convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
  718. </listitem>
  719. </itemizedlist>
  720. </listitem>
  721. <listitem>
  722. <para>November 6, 2005</para>
  723. <itemizedlist>
  724. <listitem>
  725. <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
  726. toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
  727. </listitem>
  728. <listitem>
  729. <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
  730. /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
  731. (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
  732. Huntwork for the fix.</para>
  733. </listitem>
  734. <listitem>
  735. <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
  736. system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
  737. report and the fix.</para>
  738. </listitem>
  739. <listitem>
  740. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
  741. </listitem>
  742. <listitem>
  743. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
  744. </listitem>
  745. <listitem>
  746. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
  747. </listitem>
  748. </itemizedlist>
  749. </listitem>
  750. <listitem>
  751. <para>November 5, 2005</para>
  752. <itemizedlist>
  753. <listitem>
  754. <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
  755. to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
  756. toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
  757. </listitem>
  758. </itemizedlist>
  759. </listitem>
  760. <listitem>
  761. <para>November 3, 2005</para>
  762. <itemizedlist>
  763. <listitem>
  764. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
  765. </listitem>
  766. <listitem>
  767. <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
  768. testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
  769. and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
  770. </listitem>
  771. </itemizedlist>
  772. </listitem>
  773. <listitem>
  774. <para>October 31, 2005</para>
  775. <itemizedlist>
  776. <listitem>
  777. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
  778. </listitem>
  779. <listitem>
  780. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
  781. </listitem>
  782. <listitem>
  783. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
  784. </listitem>
  785. <listitem>
  786. <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
  787. the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
  788. the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
  789. Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
  790. and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
  791. of LFS.</para>
  792. </listitem>
  793. </itemizedlist>
  794. </listitem>
  795. <listitem>
  796. <para>October 29, 2005</para>
  797. <itemizedlist>
  798. <listitem>
  799. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
  800. </listitem>
  801. <listitem>
  802. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
  803. </listitem>
  804. <listitem>
  805. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
  806. the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
  807. required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
  808. Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
  809. </listitem>
  810. </itemizedlist>
  811. </listitem>
  812. <listitem>
  813. <para>October 22, 2005</para>
  814. <itemizedlist>
  815. <listitem>
  816. <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
  817. </listitem>
  818. </itemizedlist>
  819. </listitem>
  820. <listitem>
  821. <para>October 21, 2005</para>
  822. <itemizedlist>
  823. <listitem>
  824. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
  825. </listitem>
  826. <listitem>
  827. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
  828. </listitem>
  829. <listitem>
  830. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
  831. </listitem>
  832. </itemizedlist>
  833. </listitem>
  834. <listitem>
  835. <para>October 15, 2005</para>
  836. <itemizedlist>
  837. <listitem>
  838. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
  839. </listitem>
  840. <listitem>
  841. <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
  842. (fixes bug 1639).</para>
  843. </listitem>
  844. <listitem>
  845. <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
  846. file</para>
  847. </listitem>
  848. </itemizedlist>
  849. </listitem>
  850. <listitem>
  851. <para>October 9, 2005</para>
  852. <itemizedlist>
  853. <listitem>
  854. <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
  855. directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
  856. Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
  857. </listitem>
  858. </itemizedlist>
  859. </listitem>
  860. <listitem>
  861. <para>October 8, 2005</para>
  862. <itemizedlist>
  863. <listitem>
  864. <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
  865. Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
  866. </listitem>
  867. <listitem>
  868. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
  869. </listitem>
  870. </itemizedlist>
  871. </listitem>
  872. <listitem>
  873. <para>October 7, 2005</para>
  874. <itemizedlist>
  875. <listitem>
  876. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
  877. </listitem>
  878. </itemizedlist>
  879. </listitem>
  880. <listitem>
  881. <para>October 4, 2005</para>
  882. <itemizedlist>
  883. <listitem>
  884. <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
  885. script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
  886. and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
  887. </listitem>
  888. </itemizedlist>
  889. </listitem>
  890. <listitem>
  891. <para>September 29, 2005</para>
  892. <itemizedlist>
  893. <listitem>
  894. <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
  895. bug 1629).</para>
  896. </listitem>
  897. <listitem>
  898. <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
  899. (fixes bug 1612).</para>
  900. </listitem>
  901. </itemizedlist>
  902. </listitem>
  903. <listitem>
  904. <para>September 26, 2005</para>
  905. <itemizedlist>
  906. <listitem>
  907. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
  908. </listitem>
  909. </itemizedlist>
  910. </listitem>
  911. <listitem>
  912. <para>September 24, 2005</para>
  913. <itemizedlist>
  914. <listitem>
  915. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
  916. </listitem>
  917. <listitem>
  918. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
  919. </listitem>
  920. <listitem>
  921. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
  922. </listitem>
  923. </itemizedlist>
  924. </listitem>
  925. <listitem>
  926. <para>September 20, 2005</para>
  927. <itemizedlist>
  928. <listitem>
  929. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
  930. </listitem>
  931. </itemizedlist>
  932. </listitem>
  933. <listitem>
  934. <para>September 17, 2005</para>
  935. <itemizedlist>
  936. <listitem>
  937. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
  938. &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
  939. </listitem>
  940. <listitem>
  941. <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
  942. and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
  943. as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
  944. </listitem>
  945. </itemizedlist>
  946. </listitem>
  947. <listitem>
  948. <para>September 15, 2005</para>
  949. <itemizedlist>
  950. <listitem>
  951. <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
  952. vulnerability.</para>
  953. </listitem>
  954. </itemizedlist>
  955. </listitem>
  956. <listitem>
  957. <para>September 8, 2005</para>
  958. <itemizedlist>
  959. <listitem>
  960. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
  961. </listitem>
  962. </itemizedlist>
  963. </listitem>
  964. <listitem>
  965. <para>September 6, 2005</para>
  966. <itemizedlist>
  967. <listitem>
  968. <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
  969. </listitem>
  970. </itemizedlist>
  971. </listitem>
  972. <listitem>
  973. <para>September 5, 2005</para>
  974. <itemizedlist>
  975. <listitem>
  976. <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
  977. </listitem>
  978. </itemizedlist>
  979. </listitem>
  980. <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
  981. <itemizedlist>
  982. <listitem>
  983. <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
  984. when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
  985. ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
  986. </listitem>
  987. <listitem>
  988. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
  989. </listitem>
  990. <listitem>
  991. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
  992. </listitem>
  993. </itemizedlist>
  994. </listitem>
  995. <listitem>
  996. <para>September 2, 2005</para>
  997. <itemizedlist>
  998. <listitem>
  999. <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
  1000. <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
  1001. so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
  1002. to actually work.</para>
  1003. </listitem>
  1004. <listitem>
  1005. <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
  1006. <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
  1007. </listitem>
  1008. </itemizedlist>
  1009. </listitem>
  1010. <listitem>
  1011. <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
  1012. <itemizedlist>
  1013. <listitem>
  1014. <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
  1015. instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
  1016. </listitem>
  1017. <listitem>
  1018. <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
  1019. for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
  1020. </listitem>
  1021. <listitem>
  1022. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
  1023. </listitem>
  1024. <listitem>
  1025. <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
  1026. gcc-pass2.</para>
  1027. </listitem>
  1028. </itemizedlist>
  1029. </listitem>
  1030. <listitem>
  1031. <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
  1032. <itemizedlist>
  1033. <listitem>
  1034. <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
  1035. builds for consistency</para>
  1036. </listitem>
  1037. </itemizedlist>
  1038. </listitem>
  1039. <listitem>
  1040. <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
  1041. <itemizedlist>
  1042. <listitem>
  1043. <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
  1044. condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
  1045. chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
  1046. fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
  1047. </listitem>
  1048. <listitem>
  1049. <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
  1050. rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
  1051. </listitem>
  1052. <listitem>
  1053. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
  1054. </listitem>
  1055. </itemizedlist>
  1056. </listitem>
  1057. <listitem>
  1058. <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
  1059. <itemizedlist>
  1060. <listitem>
  1061. <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
  1062. they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
  1063. </listitem>
  1064. </itemizedlist>
  1065. </listitem>
  1066. <listitem>
  1067. <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
  1068. <itemizedlist>
  1069. <listitem>
  1070. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
  1071. </listitem>
  1072. <listitem>
  1073. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
  1074. </listitem>
  1075. <listitem>
  1076. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
  1077. </listitem>
  1078. </itemizedlist>
  1079. </listitem>
  1080. <listitem>
  1081. <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
  1082. <itemizedlist>
  1083. <listitem>
  1084. <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
  1085. specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
  1086. assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
  1087. </listitem>
  1088. <listitem>
  1089. <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
  1090. filenames.</para>
  1091. </listitem>
  1092. </itemizedlist>
  1093. </listitem>
  1094. <listitem>
  1095. <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
  1096. <itemizedlist>
  1097. <listitem>
  1098. <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
  1099. instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
  1100. </listitem>
  1101. <listitem>
  1102. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
  1103. </listitem>
  1104. </itemizedlist>
  1105. </listitem>
  1106. <listitem>
  1107. <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
  1108. <itemizedlist>
  1109. <listitem>
  1110. <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
  1111. from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
  1112. </listitem>
  1113. </itemizedlist>
  1114. </listitem>
  1115. <listitem>
  1116. <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
  1117. <itemizedlist>
  1118. <listitem>
  1119. <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
  1120. advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
  1121. </listitem>
  1122. <listitem>
  1123. <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
  1124. (fixes bug 1615).</para>
  1125. </listitem>
  1126. <listitem>
  1127. <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
  1128. bug 1603).</para>
  1129. </listitem>
  1130. <listitem>
  1131. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
  1132. </listitem>
  1133. <listitem>
  1134. <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
  1135. ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
  1136. bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
  1137. </listitem>
  1138. <listitem>
  1139. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
  1140. test (bug 1611).</para>
  1141. </listitem>
  1142. </itemizedlist>
  1143. </listitem>
  1144. <listitem>
  1145. <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
  1146. <itemizedlist>
  1147. <listitem>
  1148. <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
  1149. system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
  1150. </listitem>
  1151. <listitem>
  1152. <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
  1153. (fixes bug 1601).</para>
  1154. </listitem>
  1155. <listitem>
  1156. <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
  1157. to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
  1158. </listitem>
  1159. <listitem>
  1160. <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
  1161. of chapter 6.</para>
  1162. </listitem>
  1163. <listitem>
  1164. <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
  1165. library (Bug 1608)</para>
  1166. </listitem>
  1167. </itemizedlist>
  1168. </listitem>
  1169. <listitem>
  1170. <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
  1171. <itemizedlist>
  1172. <listitem>
  1173. <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
  1174. from BLFS first.</para>
  1175. </listitem>
  1176. </itemizedlist>
  1177. </listitem>
  1178. <listitem>
  1179. <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
  1180. <itemizedlist>
  1181. <listitem>
  1182. <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
  1183. </listitem>
  1184. <listitem>
  1185. <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
  1186. modeline vulnerability.</para>
  1187. </listitem>
  1188. </itemizedlist>
  1189. </listitem>
  1190. <listitem>
  1191. <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
  1192. <itemizedlist>
  1193. <listitem>
  1194. <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
  1195. (Randy McMurchy).</para>
  1196. </listitem>
  1197. <listitem>
  1198. <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
  1199. as it's no longer used in the book</para>
  1200. </listitem>
  1201. </itemizedlist>
  1202. </listitem>
  1203. <listitem>
  1204. <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
  1205. <itemizedlist>
  1206. <listitem>
  1207. <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
  1208. </listitem>
  1209. </itemizedlist>
  1210. </listitem>
  1211. <listitem>
  1212. <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
  1213. <itemizedlist>
  1214. <listitem>
  1215. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
  1216. </listitem>
  1217. <listitem>
  1218. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
  1219. </listitem>
  1220. <listitem>
  1221. <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
  1222. The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
  1223. </listitem>
  1224. <listitem>
  1225. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
  1226. </listitem>
  1227. </itemizedlist>
  1228. </listitem>
  1229. <listitem>
  1230. <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
  1231. <itemizedlist>
  1232. <listitem>
  1233. <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
  1234. compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
  1235. </listitem>
  1236. </itemizedlist>
  1237. </listitem>
  1238. <listitem>
  1239. <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
  1240. <itemizedlist>
  1241. <listitem>
  1242. <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
  1243. installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
  1244. instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
  1245. </listitem>
  1246. <listitem>
  1247. <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
  1248. license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
  1249. </listitem>
  1250. </itemizedlist>
  1251. </listitem>
  1252. <listitem>
  1253. <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
  1254. <itemizedlist>
  1255. <listitem>
  1256. <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
  1257. so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
  1258. that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
  1259. document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
  1260. acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
  1261. </listitem>
  1262. <listitem>
  1263. <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
  1264. </listitem>
  1265. <listitem>
  1266. <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
  1267. </listitem>
  1268. </itemizedlist>
  1269. </listitem>
  1270. <listitem>
  1271. <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
  1272. <itemizedlist>
  1273. <listitem>
  1274. <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
  1275. obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
  1276. </listitem>
  1277. </itemizedlist>
  1278. </listitem>
  1279. <listitem>
  1280. <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
  1281. <itemizedlist>
  1282. <listitem>
  1283. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
  1284. </listitem>
  1285. <listitem>
  1286. <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
  1287. needed.</para>
  1288. </listitem>
  1289. </itemizedlist>
  1290. </listitem>
  1291. <listitem>
  1292. <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
  1293. <itemizedlist>
  1294. <listitem>
  1295. <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
  1296. it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
  1297. </listitem>
  1298. </itemizedlist>
  1299. </listitem>
  1300. <listitem>
  1301. <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
  1302. <itemizedlist>
  1303. <listitem>
  1304. <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
  1305. and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
  1306. of the specs patch.</para>
  1307. </listitem>
  1308. <listitem>
  1309. <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
  1310. process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
  1311. </listitem>
  1312. </itemizedlist>
  1313. </listitem>
  1314. <listitem>
  1315. <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
  1316. <itemizedlist>
  1317. <listitem>
  1318. <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
  1319. multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
  1320. </listitem>
  1321. <listitem>
  1322. <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
  1323. need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
  1324. of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
  1325. </listitem>
  1326. </itemizedlist>
  1327. </listitem>
  1328. <listitem>
  1329. <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
  1330. <itemizedlist>
  1331. <listitem>
  1332. <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
  1333. fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
  1334. </listitem>
  1335. <listitem>
  1336. <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
  1337. gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
  1338. </listitem>
  1339. <listitem>
  1340. <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
  1341. 5 and 6.</para>
  1342. </listitem>
  1343. </itemizedlist>
  1344. </listitem>
  1345. <listitem>
  1346. <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
  1347. <itemizedlist>
  1348. <listitem>
  1349. <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
  1350. </listitem>
  1351. <listitem>
  1352. <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
  1353. </listitem>
  1354. <listitem>
  1355. <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
  1356. Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
  1357. where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
  1358. </listitem>
  1359. <listitem>
  1360. <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
  1361. gcc-4.0.1</para>
  1362. </listitem>
  1363. <listitem>
  1364. <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
  1365. </listitem>
  1366. <listitem>
  1367. <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
  1368. </listitem>
  1369. </itemizedlist>
  1370. </listitem>
  1371. <listitem>
  1372. <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
  1373. <itemizedlist>
  1374. <listitem>
  1375. <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
  1376. </listitem>
  1377. </itemizedlist>
  1378. </listitem>
  1379. <listitem>
  1380. <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
  1381. <itemizedlist>
  1382. <listitem>
  1383. <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
  1384. </listitem>
  1385. <listitem>
  1386. <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
  1387. </listitem>
  1388. <listitem>
  1389. <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
  1390. </listitem>
  1391. <listitem>
  1392. <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
  1393. </listitem>
  1394. <listitem>
  1395. <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
  1396. </listitem>
  1397. </itemizedlist>
  1398. </listitem>
  1399. <listitem>
  1400. <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
  1401. <itemizedlist>
  1402. <listitem>
  1403. <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
  1404. as it is not needed.</para>
  1405. </listitem>
  1406. <listitem>
  1407. <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
  1408. </listitem>
  1409. <listitem>
  1410. <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
  1411. </listitem>
  1412. </itemizedlist>
  1413. </listitem>
  1414. <listitem>
  1415. <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
  1416. <itemizedlist>
  1417. <listitem>
  1418. <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
  1419. </listitem>
  1420. <listitem>
  1421. <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
  1422. </listitem>
  1423. <listitem>
  1424. <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
  1425. </listitem>
  1426. <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
  1427. </listitem>
  1428. </itemizedlist>
  1429. </listitem>
  1430. <listitem>
  1431. <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
  1432. <itemizedlist>
  1433. <listitem>
  1434. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
  1435. </listitem>
  1436. <listitem>
  1437. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
  1438. </listitem>
  1439. <listitem>
  1440. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
  1441. </listitem>
  1442. <listitem>
  1443. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
  1444. </listitem>
  1445. </itemizedlist>
  1446. </listitem>
  1447. <listitem>
  1448. <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
  1449. <itemizedlist>
  1450. <listitem>
  1451. <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
  1452. </listitem>
  1453. </itemizedlist>
  1454. </listitem>
  1455. <listitem>
  1456. <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
  1457. <itemizedlist>
  1458. <listitem>
  1459. <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
  1460. </listitem>
  1461. </itemizedlist>
  1462. </listitem>
  1463. <listitem>
  1464. <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
  1465. <itemizedlist>
  1466. <listitem>
  1467. <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
  1468. </listitem>
  1469. <listitem>
  1470. <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
  1471. </listitem>
  1472. <listitem>
  1473. <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
  1474. </listitem>
  1475. <listitem>
  1476. <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
  1477. </listitem>
  1478. </itemizedlist>
  1479. </listitem>
  1480. <listitem>
  1481. <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
  1482. <itemizedlist>
  1483. <listitem>
  1484. <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
  1485. </listitem>
  1486. <listitem>
  1487. <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
  1488. </listitem>
  1489. <listitem>
  1490. <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
  1491. </listitem>
  1492. </itemizedlist>
  1493. </listitem>
  1494. <listitem>
  1495. <para>April 14, 2005</para>
  1496. <itemizedlist>
  1497. <listitem>
  1498. <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
  1499. </listitem>
  1500. </itemizedlist>
  1501. </listitem>
  1502. <listitem>
  1503. <para>April 13, 2005</para>
  1504. <itemizedlist>
  1505. <listitem>
  1506. <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
  1507. </listitem>
  1508. <listitem>
  1509. <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
  1510. </listitem>
  1511. </itemizedlist>
  1512. </listitem>
  1513. <listitem>
  1514. <para>April 12, 2005</para>
  1515. <itemizedlist>
  1516. <listitem>
  1517. <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
  1518. </listitem>
  1519. </itemizedlist>
  1520. </listitem>
  1521. <listitem>
  1522. <para>April 11, 2005</para>
  1523. <itemizedlist>
  1524. <listitem>
  1525. <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
  1526. </listitem>
  1527. </itemizedlist>
  1528. </listitem>
  1529. <listitem>
  1530. <para>April 6, 2005</para>
  1531. <itemizedlist>
  1532. <listitem>
  1533. <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
  1534. </listitem>
  1535. </itemizedlist>
  1536. </listitem>
  1537. </itemizedlist>
  1538. <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
  1539. and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
  1540. </sect1>