lfs-book/chapter01/changelog.xml

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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>
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    <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>2007-08-27</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.5. Fixes 
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2064">#2065</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Changed the Shadow download URL to a more
          stable location.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Updated the acknowledgements page again.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-21</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Synced to 6.3 updates:  linux 2.6.22.4,
          man-db patch, update acknowledgements page.</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>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bryan] - Fix typo in acknowledgements.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-19</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.3, fixes
             <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2060">#2060</ulink>..</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Updated acknowledgements.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-13</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to LFS-Bootscripts-20070813.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>2007-08-11</para>
      <itemizedlist>
	<listitem>
          <para>[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.2, fixes
          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2059">#2059</ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>[dnicholson] - Changed the Bash testsuite standard input fix
          to only affect the necessary test script.</para>
	</listitem>
	<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>

<!-- Update this for each *-rcX up to final 6.3 release -->
  <para>LFS 6.3-rc2 released August 11, 2007.</para>

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