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/

Jeremy Utley d50ea9dac4 Fixed a breakage that occured from the last commit altering startfile_prefix_spec. Forcing /usr/lib as the search path exposed the need to symlink an additional lib from /tools to /usr/lib, as reported and trouble-shot on IRC. 21 rokov pred
chapter01 d50ea9dac4 Fixed a breakage that occured from the last commit altering startfile_prefix_spec. Forcing /usr/lib as the search path exposed the need to symlink an additional lib from /tools to /usr/lib, as reported and trouble-shot on IRC. 21 rokov pred
chapter02 4f7457758a Shortened some title pages. 21 rokov pred
chapter03 041cbb60ac Added the GCC Linkonce patch 21 rokov pred
chapter04 1fd5d19b67 Add user lfs to group lfs (fixes bug #856) 21 rokov pred
chapter05 6a7bdc3d6e Forgot to put the link to the new testresults. No changelog for this one, consider it a part of the upgrade to 3.4.2 21 rokov pred
chapter06 d50ea9dac4 Fixed a breakage that occured from the last commit altering startfile_prefix_spec. Forcing /usr/lib as the search path exposed the need to symlink an additional lib from /tools to /usr/lib, as reported and trouble-shot on IRC. 21 rokov pred
chapter07 b838f52ef5 Corrected that annoying typo of How Work These Scripts 21 rokov pred
chapter08 4abce96c4b * Removed the note regarding the --no-mem-option which is no longer required 21 rokov pred
chapter09 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 rokov pred
contrib 287ea55da7 * Merged newxml into HEAD 21 rokov pred
prologue 466658dca4 Added a para about replaceable text. 21 rokov pred
stylesheets 25eacc67c1 Added support to can force page breaks. 21 rokov pred
INSTALL a942c0a271 Use a configurable XSLROOTDIR to point to the DocBook XSL stylesheets 21 rokov pred
Makefile 8aa0f3a03d Renamed index-print.xml to index-pdf.xml and updated the Makefile. 21 rokov pred
README f067d1ded4 Corrected Makefile at suggestion of Richard Downing - make BASEDIR=/some/path instead of BASEDIR=/some/path make 21 rokov pred
TODO 32cc259af0 Reverting previous change - commit now works 21 rokov pred
general.ent d50ea9dac4 Fixed a breakage that occured from the last commit altering startfile_prefix_spec. Forcing /usr/lib as the search path exposed the need to symlink an additional lib from /tools to /usr/lib, as reported and trouble-shot on IRC. 21 rokov pred
goTidy ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 rokov pred
index-pdf.xml 8aa0f3a03d Renamed index-print.xml to index-pdf.xml and updated the Makefile. 21 rokov pred
index.xml 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 rokov pred
tidy.conf ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 rokov pred

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 PDF:
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make pdf &&
cp lfs.pdf /path/to/output/location