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<title>Changelog</title>
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<para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>automake-1.7.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bash-2.05b</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>binutils-2.14</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.34</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>file-4.04</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>findutils-4.1.20</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gettext-0.12.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.2-sscanf-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>grep-2.5.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>groff-1.19</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gzip-1.3.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>less-381</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.12</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libtool-1.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.4.22</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5m2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5m2-80cols.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5m2-manpath.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5m2-pager.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.60</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.25</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procps-3.1.11</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procps-3.1.11.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>psmisc-21.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sed-4.0.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.85</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tar-1.13.25</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>texinfo-4.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.12</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.2</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>bash-2.05b-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bison-1.875-attribute.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.0-uname.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>dejagnu-1.4.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>expect-5.39.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>expect-5.39.0.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.3.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3-no-fixinc.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1-no_fixincludes-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1-specs-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1-suppress-libiberty.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>grub-0.93</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>grub-0.93-gcc33-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-utils-0.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>perl-5.8.0-libc-3.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3-newgroup-fix.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tcl-8.4.4</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>zlib-1.1.4-vsnprintf.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>fileutils-4.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>findutils-4.1-segfault.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>findutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>netkit-base-0.17</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tar-1.13.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>textutils-2.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>October 24th, 2003 [alex]: Appendix A - Changed the
dependencies to the concise format, based on Tushar's post .</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 23rd, 2003 [gerard] Chapter 9 - The End: Changed
the <filename>/etc/lfs</filename> filename to
<filename>/etc/lfs-release</filename> to be more consistent with other
distributions out there.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 23rd, 2003 [alex]: Changed most of the "Chapter"
references to proper "xref" cross references .</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 22nd, 2003 [gerard] Chapter 2: Added notes how to
create installation dependency lists.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 22nd, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Gawk and Shadow:
Adjusted the text. And added some markup elsewhere.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 22nd, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Entering the chroot
environment: Dropped the <userinput>set +h</userinput> command, as it is
pointless there: it's redone several sections later.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 15th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 9: Reworked final strip
command. Relocated paragraphs about directory removal from Chapter
6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Making the LFS system
bootable: Expanded Grub details and added a warning.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 14th, 2003 [alex]: Appendix A - Updated the contents
of Perl and Procps.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 14th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 4 and 5 - Added a suggestion
to use $LFS/sources as the working and storage place.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 13th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 9 - Rebooting the system:
Reworked umount commands.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 11th, 2003 [alex]: Adapted the required disk space
values and SBUs, as posted by Bruce Dubbs.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 5 - Toolchain technical
notes: Added and changed some markup.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to
lfs-bootscripts-1.12.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [greg]: Performed internal markup reworking to
fix an extraneous whitespace problem in "tidy generated" web site pages.
Essentially replace all occurrences of &lt;para&gt;&lt;screen&gt; with
&lt;screen&gt; (and the matching closing tags).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Basic Networking: Moved
one half to the Lfs-Utils section, the other half to Perl.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 8 - Making bootable: Adapted
the style of the screens, and reworded some paragraphs.</para></listitem>
 
<listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Removed a series of unused
entities.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added notes to the linking tests
in chapter 5 and 6 stating that blank output is a bad thing.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [alex]: Changed the patch entities to contain
the full filename instead of just the version number.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 1 - Added a note regarding
#LFS-support on IRC.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [greg]: Preface: Add note about the Essential
Pre-Reading Hint. Closes Bug 585.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 6th, 2003 [alex]: Changed the style of the Contents
subsections in Chapters 5 and 6 and Appendix A.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 6th, 2003 [greg]: Simplified seds in "Locking in Glibc"
and "Re-adjusting the toolchain" sections. Rearranged "How things are going to
be done" section.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 5th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5: Added new section
"Toolchain technical notes". Integrated and scaled back the old "Why we use
static linking" section. Closes Bug 658.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 4th, 2003 [alex]: Minor rewordings and additions of
markup here and there.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 4th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Binutils Pass 1: Added
extra LDFLAGS to ensure static rebuild of ld.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6: Reinstated
INSTALL=/tools/bin/install for linker adjustment command due to issues on hosts
where a ginstall symlink exists. This renders the "install" symlinks redundant,
so removed those too.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Enabled
MD5 passwords. Closes Bug 600.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 27th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Expect: Tweaked
install so that redundant scripts are not installed. Chapter 6 - Creating
essential symlinks: Removed redundant links. Chapter 6 - man: Removed PATH,
closes Bug 574.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 27th, 2003 [greg]: Added Tcl, Expect and DejaGnu
items to Appendix A. Closes Bug 661.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 26th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added new workaround for the
devpts problems.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 24th, 2003 [greg]: Various changes across the board
addressing Bug 675.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 24th, 2003 [alex]: Appendix A - Changed the style of
the short descriptions, and the content of most of them too.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Creating the /etc/fstab
file: Made mounting devpts the default.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Net-tools patch to fix
mii-tool compilation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Updated the Why 
Static page to more accurately represent the difference between statically and 
dynamically linked binaries. Thanks to Ian Molton for pointing this out.  Fixes
Bug 602.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed the make 
command from DejaGnu, since it performs nothing.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed the -k from Tcl's make
check, since it's not expected to have failures anymore</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Changed the reference to the
man hint to a pointer to BLFS.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Added a note to remember to
mount devpts if you exit and re-enter chroot.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed make check from Patch
and Diffutils, since these tests perform no actions.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Setting up the
environment: Added unset CC CXX CPP LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD to
.bash_profile to stop accidental build breakage.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 20th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Updated
to gcc-3.3.1-specs-2.patch. Ncurses: added --enable-overwrite and description.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 19th, 2003 [jeremy]: Corrected bash tags for proper
use of the +h flag to bash.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 19th, 2003 [jwrober]: Various updates to the 
acknowledgments page.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 18th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Added
some extra comments regarding the 3 tarballs to unpack.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
rationale notes.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgments
page to match the website.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Upgraded File to 4.04.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Changed 2 of the
occurrences of exec bash --login to include the +h directive. </para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in
Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Do "make -C ld install" instead of "make
-C ld install-data-local" to install a whole new linker instead of just the
new ldscripts.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Normalized the spelling of 'Tcl'
and 'DejaGnu', following their own documentation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Properly alphabetized the
dependencies.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 16th, 2003 [alex]: Finally updated the dependencies
for the new Coreutils.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in
Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Added sanity checks.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Binutils, GCC,
and Glibc: Added notes on the test suites.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 15th, 2003 [alex]: Corrected several typos and 
some inconsistencies.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Revised chroot
command: Removed no longer needed set +h.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 14th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed some typos, and added some
markup. Dropped the removal of program files from the Stripping section in
Chapter 5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Create essential
symlinks: Add symlink /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to allow GCC abi_check to run.
Future NPTL needs this as well.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Added PLFS hint text to the 
page in Chapter 6 for creating passwd and group: bug 596.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the "How things are 
going to be done" page to include more of the PLFS hint's 
text.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Preface - Merged whoread and
whonotread into a single audience page.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 2 - Added new section
about the test suites.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Ncurses: Added
description for the --without-ada configure switch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Gawk: Added the
test suite</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Grep:  Added
descriptions of configure switches courtesy of Anderson Lizardo</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed /usr/lib/locale
directory creation - it's created during Chapter 6 - Glibc where it's more
relevant.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Fixed GCC Pass 2
specs patch text to be more vague, but in actuality more accurate - provided by
Anderson Lizardo.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Grammar fix in
Tcl install directions provided by Anderson Lizardo.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Small textual
change in the locking in Glibc page for /lib/ld.so.1 provided by Anderson
Lizardo.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added bootloader setup to
Chapter 8, after the addition of Grub to the book.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Bin86 and LILO and
replaced it with Grub.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Dropped non-toolchain tests
to optional actions.  Added a note to use the Wiki for failed tests.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Bison patch, backported
from CVS, to fix pwlib compilation problems</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Greg's patch to GCC to
suppress the installation of libiberty, and changed Binutils to allow its
libiberty to stay.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added caution tags around the
reminder to not delete the Binutils source and build directories in Chapter 5.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added new perl-libc-3 patch
from Anderson Lizardo</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jwrober]: Fixed the Findutils package 
download link on the packages page closing bug 578.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC 2.95.3:
Removed compilation of C++, added Zack's return-type patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Coreutils:
Added coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch, which suppresses the build of the
hostname binary, and also suppresses its check.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added some notes regarding failed
tests to Glibc and DejaGnu.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Glibc - Added commands to both
Chapter 5 and 6 to include minimum locales necessary for
checks.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed Zlib's
munging of CFLAGS in favor of a note to add -fPIC.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 8th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 5 - Fixed the rm command
that deletes unneeded documentation from /tools/share.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 6th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Removed a reference
to "the static" directory in the intro.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 6th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Updated
download locations for some packages.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2:
Corrected the make check error explanation</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Makedev:
Changed the default device creation to generic-nopty, because we now use devpts
by default.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC: Corrected
wording to reflect the removal of the /usr/lib/cpp symlink.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Corrected perl libc patch to -2,
changing the old /stage1 structure to /tools</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated GCC specs patch
and upgraded to man-1.5m2</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Creating
Directories: Eliminated the creation of /usr/tmp - Closes bug 176.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc:
Added mounting the devpts filesystem into chroot here.  Closes bug 533.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc:
Added a warning at the end regarding checking that proc is still mounted
if you stop and restart the lfs process.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Gzip:
Altered text to better explain the reason behind the sed command
used in the gzip installation.  Closes bug 551.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Downloading
patches: Added a note regarding Tushar's patches project, and a link
to the patches home page.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Fixed issue with Util-linux not
utilizing headers and libraries installed in /stage1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Removed "rm /bin/pwd" instruction
from Chapter 6 kernel-headers installation as the link is still required by
Glibc's installation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Adjusted all the SBUs from the
values posted by Jeremy.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Finally got around to renaming
/stage1 to /tools.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Merged several of the main
book structure files.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Alphabetized download lists,
added note to Tcl instructions.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Reworded Organization, $LFS
and SBUs sections.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 -
Groff - Added note about choice of A4 or letter for the
PAGE variable.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in shadow
newgrp patch from Greg Schafer</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 -
Inetutils - added the --disable-whois and --disable-servers
flags</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in Greg's new instructions
for GCC 3.3.1 with respect to the fixincludes process.  Also added extra
verbiage to the locking-in and GCC pass 2 pages on the fixincludes
process.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Reworded some paragraphs, added
missing markup, and rearranged the changelog.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Wrapped the 'Last checked' lines
in parentheses. Several other small retouches.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 30, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated fix-includes
patch to GCC 3.3.1</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Glibc - updated
instructions with the sscanf patch from patches.</para></listitem>
                                                                                
<listitem><para>August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated GCC
to version 3.3.1, including fixes based on Zack's mini-hint
for GCC 3.3, and patches from his docs.</para></listitem>
                                                                                
<listitem><para>August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Removed obsolete Netkit-base,
Fileutils, Sh-utils, and Textutils files.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Added some missing markup, changed
a few /static's to /stage1's.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Added all the missing
text lines before the make checks, and reworded other lines.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 28, 2003 [matt] - Updated packages
to linux-2.4.22, man-pages-1.60, expect-5.39.0,
findutils-4.1.20 and tcl-8.4.4</para></listitem>
                                                                                
<listitem><para>August 28, 2003 [jeremy] - New
bash-2.05b-2.patch file to include the 7 patches
from ftp.gnu.org</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Re-adjusting toolchain:
Added a forgotten backslash.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed a few typos and added some
missing markup.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Binutils and GCC:
Integrated text from the pure-lfs hint.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 27, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 -
Inetutils: Added --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
and moved the ping binary from /usr/bin to /bin</para>
</listitem>
                                                                                
<listitem><para>August 27th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Integrated text
from the pure-lfs hint.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 07 -
Creating /etc/hosts: Changed www.mydomain.org to
&lt;value of HOSTNAME&gt;.mydomain.org</para></listitem>
                                                                                
<listitem><para>August 26th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 &amp; 08 - Moved the
installation of the kernel manpages from chapter 6 to 8.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 04 -
Mounting the LFS partition: Added text regarding mounting
with too restrictive permissions.</para></listitem>
                                                                                
<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 -
Creating Directories: Added the creation of the /dev/shm
directory.</para></listitem>
                                                                                
<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 -
Creating fstab: Added the mount of tmpfs filesystem to
/dev/shm.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 -
Kernel Installation: Added a reminder to compile tmpfs
support into the kernel.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Rewrote the installation
text of Shadow and Util-Linux while correcting some typos.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Made the
"Locking in" and "Re-adjusting" look similar.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 24th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Merged the many little
files into one file. Gave packages and patches a separate page.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 17th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Bash to Perl:
put text in between commands. Added a section on stripping unneeded
symbols to decrease the size of the tools.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 16th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Make to Texinfo:
put text in between commands.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Binutils Pass 1 to
Findutils: several small textual adjustments. For the second passes not giving
the contents and dependencies.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Listed separate
core, g++, and test suite tarballs for GCC.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Suppressed the
mention of a wget script.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 9th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2 and GCC
Pass 2: integrated some text from the pure-lfs hint.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Tcl, Expect, and DejaGnu:
added some text.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Applied Alex Groenewoud's patch
that adds Appendix B, providing a list of all installed programs and
libraries plus references to the installation pages.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Changed the way
the global <filename>vimrc</filename> and <filename>gvimrc</filename>
locations are defined.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2:
removed the lib patch, it's no longer needed with the binutils-2.14
upgrade.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05  Binutils Pass1: Added
<userinput>make configure-host</userinput>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to binutils-2.14,
linux-2.4.21, expect-5.38.4, gawk-3.1.3, texinfo-4.6, util-linux-2.12,
man-pages-1.58, lfs-utils-0.3, vim-6.2, gettext-0.12.1, automake-1.7.6,
file-4.03, e2fsprogs-1.34, procps-3.1.11, psmisc-21.3</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 3rd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: removed the
removal of <filename>/bin/awk</filename>. This symlink isn't created
anymore.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
/opt/gcc-2.95.3/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file so the libraries can be
found during run-time.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Simplified
commands.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Simplified
commands.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added the
<userinput>grpconv</userinput> command to complement the enabling of all
shadowed passwords.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating Files: All
those <userinput>ln</userinput> commands can be made into a few long ln
commands.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing
Glibc: Create an ld.so.conf file before building Glibc, to prevent an
(harmless) error.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc:
Don't bother doing the 'exec /stage1/bin/bash' stuff, it doesn't do anything
now that we use PLFS.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Installing
Coreutils: Only test the non-root stuff in Chapter 05, but test everything
in Chapter 06.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Expect:
Don't bother passing anything more than --prefix=/stage1. None of it is
needed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 16th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Net-tools: Changed
<userinput>make install</userinput> to <userinput>make
update</userinput>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05: Installing Patch:
Added <userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE</userinput> before
<userinput>./configure</userinput> to fix patch build on PPC.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: When we
<userinput>exec /path/to/bash --login</userinput>, also run <userinput>set
+h</userinput> to keep the hashing option turned off. Fixes bug
#531</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network:
Changed the single quotes to double quotes in the echo command. Without it,
$(hostname) won't expand which defeats the sole purpose of this command -
to make Perl's hostname check work.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed all occurrences &amp;&amp;.
Updated bug syntax. Added "make check/test" where necessary in Chapter
6.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Changing
ownership" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #511.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Configuring
system components" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #510.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed Tcl, Expect
and DejaGnu. Nothing uses this once past GCC in chapter 6. The versions
in /stage1/bin do the job just fine.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Shadow:
Touching the /usr/bin/passwd file before installation. Not doing so results in
Shadow thinking passwd will be in /bin/passwd.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps:
Remove the /lib/libproc.so symlink. No package outside of Procps itself
uses this library, and none should.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools:
Run "make config" before doing make. Fixes bugs #462 and
#497.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: Added the
vsscanf patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Removed
<userinput>make check</userinput>. It doesn't do
anything.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Texinfo:
Don't install the texmf data. It's not used by anything.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Installing
Ncurses: In Chapter 6, symlink creation has been updated to include
libcurses.*, and libncurses++.a has its properties changed to 644.
Chapter 5 doesn't need any libcurses.* so those are removed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network: Added
$(hostname) to /etc/hosts, without it Perl's hostname test doesn't
pass.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC:
Don't try to remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It isn't installed in the
first place.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to findutils-4.1.7,
gzip-1.3.5, and tar-1.13.25.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Perl:
Added extra commands to build certain modules into Perl. This is to accommodate
the Coreutils "make check". Partially fixes bug #528.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Gzip:
Nothing in Chapter 6 checks for or uses the uncompress command,
therefore we shouldn't create it.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Bzip2:
Running "make" implies "make check", therefore there is no reason
whatsoever for us to run it manually.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing
Lfs-Utils: Removed. The only package that checks for mktemp before it is
installed is GCC, and that's only for gccbug.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
--enable-threads=posix as well to complete the C++ addition.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
--enable-languages=c,c++ to fix that GCC's version bug with regards to
-Wreturn-type. Fixes bug #525</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed the
--without-bash-malloc configure option.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Updated to
gcc-3.2.3-specs-4.patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Setting up Basic
Networking: Added section. Create a basic /etc/hosts files, and create
/etc/services and /etc/protocols from IANA. Fixes bugs #359 &amp;
#515.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgrading to lfs-utils-0.2.2.
This adds two files needed for proper networking configuration.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed Netkit-base 0.17. Added
Inetutils 1.4.2. Fixes bug #490.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Added lfs-utils-0.2.1. Fixes bug
#493.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses:
Fix up the symlinks so that they follow suit of other library symlinks.
No more weirdness here.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps:
Removed XSCPT="" cruft and its corresponding paragraph. This stuff
isn't needed anymore.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses:
Pass --without-debug to the configure script. It seems to have gotten
lost at some point.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 5 &amp; 6 - Installing
Bzip2, Installing Zlib: Modified build commands per bug #524.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc:
Install the linuxthreads man pages, too. This got lost somewhere.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Grep:
Added --with-included-regex to prevent Grep from using Glibc's somewhat
bugged regex.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Coreutils:
Fix some functionality of the uname command with a patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools:
Just do regular old "make install" instead of "make update". The latter
works fine now.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC:
After installation, remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It is not used
outside of the GCC build tree.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to Bash 2.05b and
added its patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Zlib:
Apply a patch to fix the buffer overflow in gzprintf().</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Configuring system
components: Moved the creation of the btmp, wtmp, lastlog and utmp to
just before Shadow, so that they are detected at their proper locations.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Automake:
Run "make" before installing. This is needed now with the newer releases
of Automake.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Vim:
Removed the patch. It hasn't been required since GCC 3.2.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating the mtab
file: Removed. Mounting /proc has the side effect of creating /etc/mtab
for us.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Make:
Removed modification of /usr/bin/make file. It is no longer mistakenly
installed with strange ownership or permissions.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc:
Made /etc/localtime a file instead of a symlink. The symlink method breaks
on systems where /usr is a separate partition.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing E2fsprogs:
Removed install-info commands for e2fsprogs. The "make install" target
handles this for us.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed all CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
variables where they are not essential (so, not including static binutils,
GCC and compiling Zlib with -fPIC).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils (pass1,
pass2), locking in Glibc and adjusting toolchain: Changed tooldir to /stage1
(likewise we use tooldir=/usr in Chapter 6).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Kernel headers:
Removed the usage of <userinput>cp -H</userinput> because there are
distributions out there that do not know about the
<userinput>-H</userinput> option.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: New
gcc-3.2.3-specs-3.patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Adjusting toolchain:
Made it more architecture-independent.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Locking in Glibc:
Made it more architecture-independent.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed GCC No Debug patches. No
longer assume gcc-core and gcc-g++ packages are downloaded, so added
appropriate --enable-languages options.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Chapter 6 - Glibc-Pass2.
It's not needed anymore with the pure-lfs integration.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Downgraded to flex-2.5.4a again.
Newer versions just don't work properly.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed zlib installation from
chapter 5 (its inclusion was a mistake).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Various bug fixes that were
introduced during the pure-lfs integration.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.7.4,
e2fsprogs-1.33, file-4.02, flex-2.5.31, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2,
grep-2.5.1, groff-1.19, less-381, libtool-1.5, man-1.5l, man-pages-1.56,
modutils-2.4.25, procps-3.1.8, sed-4.0.7, sysvinit-2.85, texinfo-4.5,
util-linux-2.11z</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Removed fileutils-4.1,
sh-utils-2.0, textutils-2.1 (all replaced with
coreutils-5.0).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Added binutils-2.13.2-libc.patch,
coreutils-5.0, dejagnu-1.4.3, expect-5.38, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-2.95.3,
tcl-8.4.2</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard] - Integrated new installation method
from the Pure LFS hint written by Greg Schafer and Ryan Oliver.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>Release of version 4.1 on April 28th, 2003.</para>

</sect1>