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/

Ken Moffat 9a404f49c5 Move grep ahead of libtool. This removes a hardcoded /tools/bin/grep from /usr/bin/libtool. 19 lat temu
appendixa 8e8f00393a Appendices indentation. 19 lat temu
appendixb 8e8f00393a Appendices indentation. 19 lat temu
chapter01 9a404f49c5 Move grep ahead of libtool. This removes a hardcoded /tools/bin/grep from /usr/bin/libtool. 19 lat temu
chapter02 0d5e80e76a Fix bug 1674 by removing the incorrect -v flag from the mkswap command 19 lat temu
chapter03 693e2fbc1e 's/DB/Berkeley DB/' and remove -lpthread overrides from it. 19 lat temu
chapter04 59988921eb Add -v to commands that accept it 20 lat temu
chapter05 fa21b3dc89 Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov. 19 lat temu
chapter06 9a404f49c5 Move grep ahead of libtool. This removes a hardcoded /tools/bin/grep from /usr/bin/libtool. 19 lat temu
chapter07 fa21b3dc89 Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov. 19 lat temu
chapter08 fa21b3dc89 Initial support of UTF-8. Thanks Alexander Patrakov. 19 lat temu
chapter09 7686ca6aae Chapter09 indentation. 19 lat temu
prologue cc25e353c3 Fixed copyright year. 19 lat temu
stylesheets 77e84afbe8 Removed figure, table, example, and equation from the TOC generation. 19 lat temu
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 20 lat temu
Makefile 2c5e4d5994 Added dump-commands.xsl. 20 lat temu
README 05e94658c6 Updated README and INSTALL. 20 lat temu
general.ent ef448f2db7 Applied Alexander's fixes patch. 19 lat temu
index.xml df42a9a98e Moved chap2 to part2 and a slight rewording. 20 lat temu
obfuscate.sh fbb5e45367 Added obfuscate.sh to test it in production mode. 20 lat temu
patches.ent ef448f2db7 Applied Alexander's fixes patch. 19 lat temu
tidy.conf 58f10f85ed HTML Tidy's newline detection appears to be broken. Force LF line endings assuming people are rendering on a Linux box 20 lat temu

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