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/

Matthew Burgess c0c977ceaf Fix coreutils i18n patch md5sum %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
appendices ed21235c01 Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.5. Fixes #3019. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
bootscripts 72f3ca780d Various minor text changes to both book and bootscripts. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter01 de2f146217 Upgrade to Coreutils-8.17. Fixes #3083. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter02 387a3a4af9 Add a note in section abput partitioning about %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter03 740ace609f Add back a patch for Glibc that prevents various BLFS programs, including aplay, from segfaulting. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter04 a3b3b6fa1f Minor wording change %!s(int64=14) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter05 404d641304 Run fixincludes again, by removing the sed that disabled it. It no longer attempts to fix up host headers. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter06 a9b89e3e00 Upgrade to GMP-5.0.5. Fixes #3079. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter07 72f3ca780d Various minor text changes to both book and bootscripts. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter08 f868dbc67d Correct reference to new BLFS package libisoburn %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
chapter09 6e83fc16f3 Add /etc/lsb-release to Chapter 9 %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
images 192ac089b9 Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. %!s(int64=18) %!d(string=hai) anos
lsb-bootscripts 6b13ebc66a Remove oblolete references to consolelog %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
prologue ef59d03827 Show that BLFS now covers all of LSB %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
stylesheets a7f0b27405 Fix a pdf rendering issue %!s(int64=14) %!d(string=hai) anos
udev-config 0e038d1b86 Don't try to install documentation that was removed in udev-config-20090126. %!s(int64=15) %!d(string=hai) anos
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. %!s(int64=20) %!d(string=hai) anos
Makefile 924ab90abf Allow aux-file-data.sh to be run successfully from the command line, and rename validxml target to validate. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
README 2dc4a09ed1 Forcing an update to test RSS fixes. %!s(int64=16) %!d(string=hai) anos
aux-file-data.sh 924ab90abf Allow aux-file-data.sh to be run successfully from the command line, and rename validxml target to validate. Thanks to Pierre Labastie for the report. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
general.ent de2f146217 Upgrade to Coreutils-8.17. Fixes #3083. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
index.xml d944136079 Replaced deprecated w3.org XInclude throughout the book %!s(int64=15) %!d(string=hai) anos
make-aux-files.sh 43c2ecf0b8 Update to lfs-bootscripts-20110531. %!s(int64=14) %!d(string=hai) anos
obfuscate.sh 05d60cedcd Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. %!s(int64=18) %!d(string=hai) anos
packages.ent de2f146217 Upgrade to Coreutils-8.17. Fixes #3083. %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
patches.ent c0c977ceaf Fix coreutils i18n patch md5sum %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
pdf-fixups.sh e436213b71 Disable pdf-fixups.sh %!s(int64=14) %!d(string=hai) anos
process-scripts.sh 6c3ab2e4b6 Show sysconfig/udev_retry in Appendix D %!s(int64=13) %!d(string=hai) anos
tidy.conf 58f10f85ed HTML Tidy's newline detection appears to be broken. Force LF line endings assuming people are rendering on a Linux box %!s(int64=20) %!d(string=hai) anos

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