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  <title>Changelog</title>

  <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
  version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>

  <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  book.</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <title>Changelog Entries:</title>

<!-- Changelog template

    <listitem>
      <para>Date</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>
-->

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated host requirments to check for
          symbolic links from sh, awk, and yacc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Suppress installation of uptime in coreutils.
          Thanks to Randy McMurchy. Fixes #2133.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to iana-etc-2.30. Fixes #2174.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added patch for 256-byte inode support in GRUB.
          Fixes #2161.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-04-02</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to linux-2.6.24.4, fixes #2157.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added an upstream patch for db-4.6.21, thanks
          Randy McMurchy for the report. Fixes #2164.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-03-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Added <parameter>--sysconfdir</parameter>
          parameter to Man-db's configure command so that
          <filename>man_db.conf</filename> is installed in <filename
          class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-03-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated bzip2 to 1.0.5, fixes CVE-2008-1372.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-26</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Corrected typo in name of ru-ms keymap.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Kbd to 1.13.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-24</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add --libexecdir parameter to Man-db's configure
          command so that <command>globbing</command> and
          <command>manconv</command> are installed into /usr/libexec/man-db.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2153">#2153</ulink>.  Also, remove
          the --enable-mb-groff parameter, as this is now detected
          automatically.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Grep to 2.5.3, thanks to Matthew for the fix
          for automated builds.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Flex to 2.5.34.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[ken] - Updated Module-Init-Tools to 3.4.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-17</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream Vim patches.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.18. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2146">#2146</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.78. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2152">#2152</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2148">#2148</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2147">#2147</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Now that <command>mktemp</command> is installed by
          Coreutils in chapter 5, there is no need to fix up GCC's
          <command>gccbug</command> in chapter 6.  Thanks to Greg Schafer for
          the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.33. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2151">#2151</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2149">#2149</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-02-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to fix a known issue in the Automake
          test suite. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2143">#2143</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-pages-2.77. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2142">#2142</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Libtool-1.5.26. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2141">#2141</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.2.3. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2140">#2140</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-6.10. Removed Mktemp-1.5 as
          Coreutils provides its own implementation now. Removed the coreutils
          binary suppression patch as the configure script can now be given a
          list of programs not to install. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2133">#2133</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2138">#2138</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2137">#2137</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.32. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2136">#2136</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2132">#2132</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-22</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Replaced Util-Linux-2.12r, with
          Util-Linux-NG-2.13.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2077">#2077</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2131">#2131</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.76. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2129">#2129</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.14. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2128">#2128</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add Perl to the list of host requirements, as it is
          required by Glibc.  Thanks to Ben Collver for the report.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2112">#2112</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Mention <command>strace</command> as another means
          of logging installed files, and correct the URL of the Linux Standard
          Base specifications. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2073">#2073</ulink> and
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2130">#2130</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2008-01-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-418.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2124">#2124</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to File-4.23.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2125">#2125</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.4.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2123">#2123</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-12-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Readline.
          Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2122">#2122</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.74. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2119">#2119</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.12. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2118">#2118</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2121">#2121</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-12-08</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2108">#2108</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2074">#2074</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Psmisc-22.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2104">#2104</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.70. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2110">#2110</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.0. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2109">#2109</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.9. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2106">#2106</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Less-416. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2105">#2105</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Gettext-0.17. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2103">#2103</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
          Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
          for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as
          Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2107">#2107</ulink>. Thanks to Erik-Jan
          for the report.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.3.  Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2116">#2116</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-11-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Fixed test for Debian binutils.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-10-29</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed obsolete note from Creating Symlinks section
          about continuation lines in udev rules.  Changed dailout group
          to uucp for udev rule compatability.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to the latest upstream patches for
          Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add a patch to fix a segfault in usb_id.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.16. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2084">#2084</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2090">#2090</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.67. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2078">#2078</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.23.1. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2088">#2088</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-409. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2087">#2087</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.23. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2091">#2091</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.7. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2095">#2095</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.2. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2089">#2089</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2098">#2098</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.21. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2086">#2086</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-10-06</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Made book buildable by powerpc.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved GCC's bootstrap to pass 2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-10-05</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Added -mtune to Glibc CFLAGS.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-10-04</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed grep syntax in Glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-25</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - More updates in dependencies list. Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-23</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated dependencies list. Thanks to
          Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Fixed glibc-libidn tarball extension.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-18</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added remap attributes to userinput tags in packages
          pages to help adding package manager support and other extensions
          into jhalfs. Made all testsuite commands screen blocks for
          consistency.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-16</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos.
          Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
       <para>2007-09-15</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Vim.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2055">#2055</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2068">#2068</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.64. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2061">#2061</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.6. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2070">#2070</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove --with-arch for GCC and adjust CFLAGS for
	  Glibc instead.
	  Thanks to Robert Connolly and Dan Nicholson for investigating how best
	  to adjust CFLAGS, and Greg Schafer for showing the technical
	  benefits of using CFLAGS with Glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2051">#2051</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2067">#2067</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

     <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[manuel] - Added sect1info metainformation blocks to packages
          pages to help adding package manager support into jhalfs.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-09-03</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove -m64 from binutils and gcc pass 1. Tests show that the 32-bit binary
	  versions still produce the wanted 64-bit code.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-31</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Update explanatory text for the use of -m64.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Update explanatory text for GCC's --with-arch parameter.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Add --disable-bootstrap flags to GCC pass 2 and chapter 6 GCC,
          to achieve traditional LFS build methods with GCC 4.2.1.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-30</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to FSF Binutils version 2.18.</para>
	</listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Use --with-arch=i486 only for x86. Also force '-m64' for 64-bit builds.
	  Lastly, use 'make' instead of 'make bootstrap' on gcc pass 1. The bootstrap is now default.</para>
	</listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>


    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-20</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Use --with-arch=i486 on GCC instead of -march=i486 with Glibc.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Add -march=i486 to Glibc for x86 builds as default of i386 is
          incompatible.</para>
        </listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Make the sed to Glibc's test-installation.pl file
	  architecture independent.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-07</para>
      <itemizedlist>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix Perl-5.8.8 to build with GCC-4.2.1.
	  Have makedepend.SH check for 'command-line' as well as 'command line'.</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix Coreutils-6.9 and Gzip-1.3.12 to work with Glibc-2.6.1.
	  Rename the futimens function.</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Use a loop, find and sed instead of the gcc specs patch</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to Glibc 2.6.1</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Add --disable-shared to gcc pass 1. Requires adding
	  a libgcc_eh.a -> libgcc.a symlink.</para>
	</listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Since we're using HJL Binutils, add m4, bison and flex
	  back to chatper 5.</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to GCC 4.2.1</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to HJL Binutils-2.17.50.0.18</para>
	</listitem>
	<listitem>
	  <para>[jhuntwork] - Update commands to work with both x86 and x86_64</para>
	</listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[jhuntwork] - Use '-n' when creating /tools/lib64 symlink.
	  Will fail if that directory or symlink already exists, instead of
	  creating an unwanted lib -> lib symlink inside of /tools/lib. Fix
	  from Dan Nicholson.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.</para>

</sect1>