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  1. <sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
  2. <title>Changelog</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html" dir="chapter01"?>
  4. <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
  5. <itemizedlist>
  6. <listitem><para>Upgraded to:
  7. <itemizedlist>
  8. <listitem><para>automake-1.6.3</para></listitem>
  9. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
  10. <listitem><para>binutils-2.13</para></listitem>
  11. <listitem><para>bison-1.35</para></listitem>
  12. <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8.1</para></listitem>
  13. <listitem><para>file-3.39</para></listitem>
  14. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1</para></listitem>
  15. <listitem><para>gcc-3.2</para></listitem>
  16. <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.5</para></listitem>
  17. <listitem><para>groff-1.18</para></listitem>
  18. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
  19. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.19</para></listitem>
  20. <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.7</para></listitem>
  21. <listitem><para>man-1.5k</para></listitem>
  22. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.52</para></listitem>
  23. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.19</para></listitem>
  24. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
  25. <listitem><para>perl-5.8.0</para></listitem>
  26. <listitem><para>psmisc-21</para></listitem>
  27. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.2</para></listitem>
  28. <listitem><para>textutils-2.1</para></listitem>
  29. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
  30. </itemizedlist>
  31. </para></listitem>
  32. <listitem><para>Added:
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem><para>ed-0.2.patch</para></listitem>
  35. <listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
  36. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1.patch</para></listitem>
  37. <listitem><para>gcc-3.2.patch</para></listitem>
  38. <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5-2.patch</para></listitem>
  39. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
  40. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2.patch</para></listitem>
  41. <listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
  42. <listitem><para>zlib-1.1.4</para></listitem>
  43. </itemizedlist>
  44. </para></listitem>
  45. <listitem><para>Removed:
  46. <itemizedlist>
  47. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4a.patch</para></listitem>
  48. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
  49. </itemizedlist>
  50. </para></listitem>
  51. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  52. lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
  53. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure
  54. Sysvinit: Changed the sulogin line to <emphasis>once</emphasis> instead of
  55. having it respawn. This way it'll behave as expected (ie: a CTRL+D will
  56. continue instead of restart sulogin).</para></listitem>
  57. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Added the
  58. <emphasis>--enable-clocale=gnu</emphasis> option to ensure the proper
  59. locale mode is used by the C++ libraries.</para></listitem>
  60. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Grammatic
  61. changes.</para></listitem>
  62. <listitem><para>September 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's
  63. grammar changes patch.</para></listitem>
  64. <listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gzip:
  65. Added gzip-1.2.4b.patch.</para></listitem>
  66. <listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Textutils:
  67. Added re_max_failures2 for old host systems.</para></listitem>
  68. <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Bash: Removed
  69. creation of sh symlink. Creating the bash and sh symlinks: Added /bin/bash
  70. symlink, symlinked sh to bash. Gzip, Sysvinit, Util-Linux: Shortened cp
  71. command. Makedev: Removed /bin/bash creation and removal. Man: Modified sed
  72. statement to edit less call, so SGR will work.</para></listitem>
  73. <listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - About
  74. debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed
  75. statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences.</para></listitem>
  76. <listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Install all
  77. software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the
  78. compilation of symbols in static packages.</para></listitem>
  79. <listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Makedev:
  80. Put rm /bin/bash after device creation. Perl: Removed information
  81. about the old patch.</para></listitem>
  82. <listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Re-added
  83. HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN; removed --enable-__cxa-atexit which was incorrect and
  84. not needed in this chapter; added information about the
  85. patch.</para></listitem>
  86. <listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new Glibc patch and
  87. introducted a GCC patch.</para></listitem>
  88. <listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to automake-1.6.3,
  89. gcc-3.2, groff-1.18, makedev-1.7, perl-5.8.0,
  90. util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
  91. <listitem><para>August 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Appendix: Added
  92. missing URLs to patches.</para></listitem>
  93. <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06:
  94. Changed ln -sf to ln -s wherever possible.</para></listitem>
  95. <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Binutils: cp
  96. libiberty.h after install, as it is needed by certain software. Shadow:
  97. added command to remove the groups program installed by Shadow because
  98. Sh-utils installs a (better) groups program.</para></listitem>
  99. <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Re-added
  100. sh-utils-2.0.patch.</para></listitem>
  101. <listitem><para>August 16th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move man-pages to
  102. just after the kernel headers installation.</para></listitem>
  103. <listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move the MAKEDEV
  104. installation to before glibc and remove the temporary creation of
  105. <filename>/dev/null</filename> as we don't need it
  106. anymore.</para></listitem>
  107. <listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Preparing a new
  108. partition: mentioned that a swap partition can be shared between the LFS
  109. and host systems, grammatic changes.</para></listitem>
  110. <listitem><para>August 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed the
  111. <emphasis>--with-curses</emphasis> switch from the Bash installation as
  112. it's unnecessary here.</para></listitem>
  113. <listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to modutils-2.4.19,
  114. linux-2.4.19, gettext-0.11.5, binutils-2.13, textutils-2.1.</para></listitem>
  115. <listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Vim: changed
  116. alternative editors link from hints to BLFS.</para></listitem>
  117. <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: removed
  118. the <emphasis>--disable-termcap</emphasis> configure option. Termcap is
  119. disabled by default now, so no need for this option (left over from a long
  120. time ago when it was needed).</para></listitem>
  121. <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added the
  122. command <userinput>cp include/asm-generic /usr/include</userinput>. There
  123. are programs which use the files in there, as well as headers in the
  124. <filename class="directory">asm</filename> directory may be split up in the
  125. future, and put in the
  126. <filename class="directory">asm-generic</filename>.</para></listitem>
  127. <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: added the
  128. missing program description of msgcat.</para></listitem>
  129. <listitem><para>August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4.</para></listitem>
  130. <listitem><para>August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52,
  131. man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils-2.4.18.</para></listitem>
  132. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs.
  133. Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39.</para></listitem>
  134. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 &amp; 05 - Creating
  135. a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils,
  136. Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead
  137. of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to
  138. auto-host.h.</para></listitem>
  139. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: added
  140. --disable-profile flag.</para></listitem>
  141. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux:
  142. added information about modules and kernel documentation.</para></listitem>
  143. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
  144. system: added a command to remove the static directory.</para></listitem>
  145. <listitem><para>July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
  146. system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step.</para></listitem>
  147. <listitem><para>July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Sysvinit: Simplified
  148. the sed command and updated the installation description because init now
  149. prints "Sending processes" instead of "Sending all processes".</para></listitem>
  150. <listitem><para>July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change - Made all
  151. patches use a &amp;package-patch-version; entity and removed all
  152. hardcoding of patch versions.</para></listitem>
  153. <listitem><para>June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and
  154. automake-1.6.2</para></listitem>
  155. <listitem><para>June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow, Util-linux,
  156. LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  157. <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Net-tools,
  158. Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison,
  159. Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps,
  160. Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  161. <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - M4,
  162. Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added "last checked against" for uniformity.
  163. GCC: Removed i686-specific programs.</para></listitem>
  164. <listitem><para>June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gettext:
  165. Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  166. <listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Binutils,
  167. Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description
  168. of c++filt.</para></listitem>
  169. <listitem><para>June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - The End:
  170. Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-&version; to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version
  171. number inside this file.</para></listitem>
  172. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
  173. Modified the build instructions and command explanations to
  174. only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed
  175. until after the second GCC build.</para></listitem>
  176. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: grammatic
  177. changes.</para></listitem>
  178. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Gawk:
  179. Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils:
  180. Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC:
  181. Updated the package contents.</para></listitem>
  182. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the
  183. estimated required disk space.</para></listitem>
  184. <listitem><para>June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Creating
  185. Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p
  186. option to mkdir which will create the usr directory
  187. anyways.</para></listitem>
  188. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Reiserfsprogs:
  189. added a description for unpack.</para></listitem>
  190. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 - How to ask for
  191. help: mentioned the FAQ.</para></listitem>
  192. <listitem><para>June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up
  193. explanations following the /static change.</para></listitem>
  194. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface - Who would not want to
  195. read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar
  196. patch.</para></listitem>
  197. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors.
  198. Chapter 06 - Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 - Gawk: to avoid confusion,
  199. mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06.</para></listitem>
  200. <listitem><para>June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited
  201. to include reporting typos.</para></listitem>
  202. <listitem><para>May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the
  203. CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1
  204. systems.</para></listitem>
  205. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Update to
  206. binutils-2.12.1.</para></listitem>
  207. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed
  208. section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer
  209. have the commands referred to there.</para></listitem>
  210. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the
  211. various sed fixes with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  212. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the
  213. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  214. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced
  215. the sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  216. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the
  217. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  218. <listitem><para>May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership:
  219. removed the explicit command to chown <filename
  220. class="directory">/lost+found</filename>. This is done by the first command
  221. now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  222. <listitem><para>May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  223. ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used
  224. one).</para></listitem>
  225. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1,
  226. bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2,
  227. modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix
  228. patches for ncurses, perl and vim.</para></listitem>
  229. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed
  230. the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to
  231. chapter 06-binutils.</para></listitem>
  232. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk &amp; Findutils:
  233. simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We
  234. can live with a
  235. <filename class="directory">$LFS/static/libexecdir</filename> being created.
  236. The whole <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory is
  237. temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks
  238. like.</para></listitem>
  239. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories:
  240. removed the <userinput>cd /</userinput> command and changed the two
  241. <userinput>chmod</userinput> commands to use absolute paths
  242. instead.</para></listitem>
  243. <listitem><para>May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor
  244. corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't
  245. wanted.</para></listitem>
  246. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the
  247. keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added
  248. findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5
  249. into <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> and re-ordered the
  250. installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path
  251. (files from <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename>).</para></listitem>
  252. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  253. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  254. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some
  255. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  256. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some
  257. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  258. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  259. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  260. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  261. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  262. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  263. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  264. <listitem><para>May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown
  265. X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info
  266. chown).</para></listitem>
  267. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added
  268. http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net</para></listitem>
  269. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  270. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  271. <listitem><para>May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the
  272. instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter
  273. 05 gzip instructions.</para></listitem>
  274. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML
  275. fixups; mainly altering &lt;ulink&gt; tags to remove erroneous &amp;#13;
  276. in the HTML output.</para></listitem>
  277. <listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the
  278. missing descriptions.</para></listitem>
  279. <listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the
  280. symlink location of <filename class="symlink">vigr</filename> to
  281. <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename></para></listitem>
  282. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the
  283. two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be
  284. mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).</para></listitem>
  285. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the
  286. <userinput>cd dir && ln -sf</userinput> commands to one single command
  287. (such as <userinput>ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh</userinput> Same goes for
  288. <userinput>cd dir && mv/cp</userinput> constructions which are now replaced
  289. with constructions like
  290. <userinput>mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin</userinput></para></listitem>
  291. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS
  292. library files" section.</para></listitem>
  293. <listitem><para>May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds -
  294. gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the
  295. <userinput>export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR</userinput> constructions and
  296. changed them to <userinput>VAR=VALUE ./configure</userinput>
  297. constructions.</para></listitem>
  298. <listitem><para>April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added
  299. libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in
  300. updatedb.</para></listitem>
  301. <listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
  302. that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
  303. then you first need to create the
  304. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
  305. <listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to
  306. MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
  307. <listitem><para>April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to
  308. cvs and split up index.xml.</para></listitem>
  309. <listitem><para>April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following
  310. packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q
  311. </para></listitem>
  312. <listitem><para>April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp
  313. to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static
  314. pcre library.</para></listitem>
  315. <listitem><para>April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the
  316. http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement
  317. ftp://ftp.de).</para></listitem>
  318. </itemizedlist>
  319. <para>3.3 - April 7th, 2002</para>
  320. <itemizedlist>
  321. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  322. <itemizedlist>
  323. <listitem><para>autoconf-2.53</para></listitem>
  324. <listitem><para>automake-1.6</para></listitem>
  325. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.2</para></listitem>
  326. <listitem><para>binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
  327. <listitem><para>bison-1.34</para></listitem>
  328. <listitem><para>bzip2-1.0.2</para></listitem>
  329. <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8</para></listitem>
  330. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.27</para></listitem>
  331. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.0</para></listitem>
  332. <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.1</para></listitem>
  333. <listitem><para>grep-2.5</para></listitem>
  334. <listitem><para>less-374</para></listitem>
  335. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
  336. <listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
  337. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.18</para></listitem>
  338. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.48</para></listitem>
  339. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.15</para></listitem>
  340. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
  341. <listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
  342. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.1</para></listitem>
  343. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
  344. <listitem><para>vim-6.1</para></listitem>
  345. </itemizedlist>
  346. </para></listitem>
  347. <listitem><para>April 7th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new mirror site located
  348. in Freising, Germany</para></listitem>
  349. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Added this
  350. page explaining that you can remove the loadkeys symlink from <filename
  351. class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d</filename> if you compiled a keymap
  352. directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>
  353. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configuring
  354. Keyboard: explained you can also compile the keymap directly into the
  355. kernel which has additional benefits.</para></listitem>
  356. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  357. lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
  358. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - GCC: Added
  359. commands to remove the <filename class="directory">/usr/*-gnu</filename>
  360. directory.</para></listitem>
  361. <listitem><para>April 4th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Diffutils: Added
  362. --disable-nls</para></listitem>
  363. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: Added the
  364. missing package descriptions.</para></listitem>
  365. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Mounting $LFS/proc:
  366. Added <userinput>chown root.root $LFS/proc</userinput>. The recursive chown
  367. operation in chapter 6 doesn't touch proc, so this'll remain owned by user
  368. <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>. It's not a big deal, just not a very clean thing
  369. to do.</para></listitem>
  370. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Added a few
  371. symlinks that are used by programs like <userinput>xman</userinput> and
  372. others.</para></listitem>
  373. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Mounting partitions:
  374. Added some notes how to deal with multiple partitions ($LFS, $LFS/usr and
  375. so on).</para></listitem>
  376. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - E2fsprogs: Added
  377. <userinput>install-info</userinput> command to finish off the info page
  378. installation.</para></listitem>
  379. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Reversed the
  380. <userinput>make</userinput> and <userinput>make -f
  381. Makefile-libbz2_so</userinput>. This is needed so all object files are
  382. compiled with the PIC option (Position Independent Code).</para></listitem>
  383. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Linux: Shortened the
  384. installation instructions by cutting out the <userinput>make
  385. config</userinput> and <userinput>make dep</userinput>
  386. stages.</para></listitem>
  387. <listitem><para>April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 -
  388. Gawk: Added a warning to never run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on
  389. the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to <userinput>rm -rf
  390. /usr/bin/*</userinput> because we override the <filename
  391. class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition to <filename
  392. class="directory">/usr/bin</filename></para></listitem>
  393. <listitem><para>March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to
  394. diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting
  395. for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script.
  396. Removed sed to fix problem with shell syntax highlighting in vim as that
  397. is fixed in the new version.</para></listitem>
  398. <listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
  399. Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
  400. <listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
  401. library description.</para></listitem>
  402. <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before we
  403. move <filename>/usr/bin/bzless</filename> and
  404. <filename>/usr/bin/bzmore</filename> to the <filename
  405. class="directory">/bin</filename> directory, we first remove the
  406. <filename>/bin/bzless</filename> and <filename>/bin/bzmore</filename>
  407. files. On some systems overwriting the existing files doesn't work due to
  408. hardlinks being used.</para></listitem>
  409. <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Sysklogd: Updated
  410. the download location to <ulink url="http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/"/></para></listitem>
  411. <listitem><para>March 20th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure Dynamic
  412. Loader: Removed the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
  413. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> directories from the
  414. <filename>ld.so.conf</filename> file. They were
  415. unnecessary.</para></listitem>
  416. <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06+Appendix A: Removed
  417. the chroot dependencies. It's not a package so it's a bit out of
  418. place.</para></listitem>
  419. <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Gawk: Added
  420. commands to sed the <filename>awklib/Makefile.in</filename> file to change
  421. the <emphasis>datadir</emphasis> and <emphasis>libexecdir</emphasis>
  422. definitions</para></listitem>
  423. <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mailing lists:
  424. Added lfs-chat description</para></listitem>
  425. <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06-Shadow: Move
  426. <filename>libmisc.*a</filename> to
  427. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> too.</para></listitem>
  428. <listitem><para>March 14th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  429. bison-1.34, gettext-0.11.1, grep-2.5, lfs-bootscripts-1.8,
  430. shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
  431. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  432. binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
  433. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
  434. here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
  435. which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
  436. changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
  437. clock is set up.</para></listitem>
  438. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
  439. the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
  440. The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used
  441. now).</para></listitem>
  442. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk: Added
  443. -Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 bug fix for glibc-2.1.x
  444. systems.</para></listitem>
  445. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before
  446. installing, remove <filename>/usr/bin/bz*</filename>. The bzip2
  447. installation doesn't deal with existing files properly when making hard
  448. links, so we remove the files first.</para></listitem>
  449. <listitem><para>March 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure keyboard:
  450. Added section to configure keyboard keymap file by creating the <filename
  451. class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
  452. symlink.</para></listitem>
  453. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Make bootable: Added
  454. a <userinput>cp</userinput> command that finds all the kernel images from
  455. <filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> automatically and copies them to
  456. <filename class="directory">$LFS/boot</filename>.</para></listitem>
  457. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Moved the
  458. <filename>man.conf</filename> from <filename
  459. class="directory">/usr/share/misc</filename> to <filename
  460. class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para></listitem>
  461. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07: Added a page about
  462. the sysklogd script and explain that the default script includes the
  463. <emphasis>-m 0</emphasis> option to
  464. <userinput>syslogd</userinput>.</para></listitem>
  465. <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the Mawk package and
  466. replaced with the Gawk package. This was done because mawk is no longer
  467. being developed, while gawk is. Mawk has some POSIX compliance bugs that
  468. are fixed in Gawk.</para></listitem>
  469. <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to the following
  470. packages: autoconf-2.53, automake-1.6, bin86-0.16.2, bison-1.33,
  471. bzip2-1.0.2, e2fsprogs-1.27, gawk-3.1.0, gettext-0.11, less-374, lilo-22.2,
  472. linux-2.4.18, man-pages-1.48, modutils-2.4.14, reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b,
  473. shadow-4.0.2, texinfo-4.1, util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
  474. </itemizedlist>
  475. <para>3.2 - March 7th, 2002</para>
  476. <itemizedlist>
  477. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  478. <itemizedlist>
  479. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
  480. </itemizedlist>
  481. </para></listitem>
  482. <listitem><para>March 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Creating
  483. directories: Removed the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
  484. and <filename class="directory">/usr/local/var</filename> directories. They
  485. aren't recommended by the <emphasis>FHS</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
  486. <listitem><para>February 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Make: Added
  487. commands to remove the setgid kmem bit from
  488. <filename>/usr/bin/make</filename>. This isn't needed on Linux systems to
  489. deal with the system load and it causes some other problems too that are
  490. fixed by removing the setgid bit.</para></listitem>
  491. <listitem><para>February 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  492. lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
  493. <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Added
  494. the command again that moves $LFS/usr/bin/chroot to
  495. $LFS/usr/sbin</para></listitem>
  496. <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard] Updated dependencies for all
  497. packages.</para></listitem>
  498. <listitem><para>February 15th, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 01: Added a new mirror
  499. to the list located in The Netherlands (www.nl and
  500. ftp.nl).</para></listitem>
  501. <listitem><para>February 11th, 2002 [markh] Chapter 05: Sh-utils:
  502. Removed extra &amp;&amp; from end of install
  503. instructions.</para></listitem>
  504. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils:
  505. Removed <emphasis>su</emphasis> from the <emphasis>mv</emphasis> command
  506. as this isn't installed in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  507. </itemizedlist>
  508. <para>3.2-RC1 - February 10th, 2002</para>
  509. <itemizedlist>
  510. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  511. <itemizedlist>
  512. <listitem><para>bison-1.31</para></listitem>
  513. <listitem><para>file-3.37</para></listitem>
  514. <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5</para></listitem>
  515. <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
  516. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
  517. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.17</para></listitem>
  518. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.47</para></listitem>
  519. <listitem><para>psmisc-20.2</para></listitem>
  520. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.84</para></listitem>
  521. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11n</para></listitem>
  522. </itemizedlist>
  523. </para></listitem></itemizedlist>
  524. <itemizedlist>
  525. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added a sed
  526. command to change gzexe's hardcoded /usr/bin/gzip path and change it to
  527. /bin/gzip.</para></listitem>
  528. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 + 6: Moved
  529. additional programs to the ($LFS)/bin directory that are used by the
  530. bootscripts. No programs used by bootscripts (except daemons themselves)
  531. should be in the /usr directory in case /usr isn't available until far
  532. along in the boot process (when it's an NFS share for
  533. example).</para></listitem>
  534. <listitem><para>February 6th, 2002 [markh]: Appendix A - All
  535. descriptions now synced and updated.</para></listitem>
  536. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Changing owner:
  537. Added <quote>cd /</quote> so the leading slash can be removed from all the
  538. directories in the chown commands. It's more pleasant to type out this
  539. way.</para></listitem>
  540. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
  541. lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
  542. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Removed the
  543. compress symlink. Gzip can uncompress .Z files but it can't compress into
  544. that format.</para></listitem>
  545. <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
  546. lfs-bootscripts-1.3</para></listitem>
  547. <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Glibc: Instead of
  548. sed'ing the <filename>config.make</filename> file, create the
  549. <filename>glibc-build/configparms</filename> file containing
  550. <quote>cross-compiling = no</quote>.</para></listitem>
  551. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5: Changed
  552. the commands to copy the header files to support versions of cp older
  553. than 4.1.</para></listitem>
  554. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Added
  555. CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" to the configure command for patch.
  556. This fixes compilation on PPC and m68k platforms and doesn't hurt on
  557. x86.</para></listitem>
  558. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Mounting proc:
  559. Rephrased the text a bit (it implied you can only mount the proc fs more
  560. than once, which isn't true anymore these days).</para></listitem>
  561. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 5: Enhanced the make
  562. mrproper explanation.</para></listitem>
  563. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5+6: Removed
  564. the --libexecdir flag from fileutils' configure options.</para></listitem>
  565. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 6: Added a
  566. symlink from vipw to vigr after installing shadow.</para></listitem>
  567. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Changed
  568. binutils and e2fsprogs installation instructions to use separate
  569. directories ala gcc and glibc.</para></listitem>
  570. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bootscripts: Added
  571. a chown root.root after the cp.</para></listitem>
  572. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Texinfo: the info
  573. programs works on the /usr/share/info directory not
  574. /usr/doc/info.</para></listitem>
  575. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Procps: Fixed typo
  576. the path to the app-defaults directory (it's
  577. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and not
  578. usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults).</para></listitem>
  579. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configure
  580. software: Simplified the commands to create the utmp, btmp, lastlog and
  581. wtmp files.</para></listitem>
  582. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter1: Moved
  583. Acknowledgements to be displayed as the first page in chapter
  584. 1.</para></listitem>
  585. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Created a separate
  586. page to list the HTTP and FTP mirrors.</para></listitem>
  587. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 4 - Creating
  588. partition: increased the suggested partition size from 750 MB to 1
  589. GB.</para></listitem>
  590. <listitem><para>January 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Combined
  591. the <quote>mv libshadow.a /usr/lib</quote> and
  592. <quote>mv libshadow.la /usr/lib</quote> commands into
  593. <quote>mv libshadow.*a /usr/lib</quote></para></listitem>
  594. <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  595. lfs-bootscripts-1.2</para></listitem>
  596. <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Removed the
  597. datadir option from bisons configure flags, because recent bisons use the
  598. correct directory by default.</para></listitem>
  599. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added the section
  600. Create /etc/mtab symlink.</para></listitem>
  601. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the file -C command
  602. from the file installation. This package runs this command at the very end
  603. of the installation so we don't need to do this anymore.</para></listitem>
  604. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 4+5+6: The static
  605. environment is now built as an unprivileged user, removing the risk of
  606. overwriting files of the host distribution.</para></listitem>
  607. <listitem><para>January 22nd, 2002 [markh]: Back out linuxthreads
  608. man-page installation instructions as they don't work (they need perl
  609. which we don't have installed at that point).</para></listitem>
  610. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to glibc-2.2.5. At
  611. the same time, fixed the glibc installation so that the linuxthreads man
  612. pages are installed.</para></listitem>
  613. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to bison-1.31,
  614. file-3.37, kernel-2.4.17, psmisc-20.2 and
  615. sysvinit-2.84.</para></listitem>
  616. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to util-linux-2.11n
  617. and removed ADD_RAW=yes as it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>
  618. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to man-pages-1.47
  619. and removed the man-pages patch.</para></listitem>
  620. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A: Added bootscripts
  621. files (dependencies, download location, descriptions)</para></listitem>
  622. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added bootscripts
  623. installation.</para></listitem>
  624. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 7: Removed most of the
  625. scripts, only left the part of a few where we set up config files in
  626. /etc/sysconfig.</para></listitem>
  627. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configuring
  628. Sysvinit: Changed the inittab contents to match the new
  629. bootscripts.</para></listitem>
  630. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
  631. the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>
  632. <listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header
  633. files installation in chapter 5 so it's a bit more portable.</para></listitem>
  634. <listitem><para>January 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Reformatted the dependency
  635. lists.</para></listitem>
  636. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Happy New Year
  637. LFS!</para></listitem>
  638. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [markh]: First Changelog of New Year!
  639. Update copyright notice to cover 2002 ;-) OK - I'm
  640. sad...</para></listitem>
  641. <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Reworded why
  642. ed is optional to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
  643. <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Reworded
  644. the TEXMF explanation to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
  645. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 4: Replaced the "One
  646. partition hint" reference with lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt hint
  647. reference.</para></listitem>
  648. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [markh]: Finish Appendix merge. All
  649. of the old appendices A, B and D are now in one (large) Appendix
  650. A.</para></listitem>
  651. <listitem><para>December 14th, 2001 [markh]: Merged appendices A and
  652. B.</para></listitem>
  653. <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix B: Changed dbhtml
  654. tag so that the flex page is now created as flex.html instead of
  655. flex</para></listitem>
  656. <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix D: Moved
  657. metalab.unc.edu and ftp.ibiblio.org references to the proper URL
  658. ibiblio.org.</para></listitem>
  659. <listitem><para>December 12th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Moved
  660. the kbd patch to the default installation instructions; upgraded to
  661. kbd-1.06-2.patch to fix installation of some programs; added the
  662. descriptions for these programs; removed the loadkeys -d warning that
  663. was a leftover from the time where loadkeys -d wasn't fixed yet.</para></listitem>
  664. <listitem><para>December 11th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add the "why we
  665. cd $LFS before chroot" explanation.</para></listitem>
  666. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add kbd patch
  667. for loadkeys -d behaviour (patch by Matthias Benkmann; originally posted
  668. to the lfs-dev list).</para></listitem>
  669. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Re-create
  670. symlinks in bash, fileutils and gcc instructions to make the Chapter 6
  671. instructions independent of those in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  672. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: Cleaned
  673. up the sed commands to use the backup file that was created earlier instead
  674. of writing to an intermediate 'tmp~' file.</para></listitem>
  675. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: 'make'
  676. command for diffutils installation changed to 'make PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr.'
  677. This bug was reported by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>
  678. <listitem><para>December 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Change the
  679. configure command from <emphasis>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr</emphasis> to
  680. <emphasis>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</emphasis>. This is more consistent
  681. with the installation instructions for the other packages, and the result
  682. is identical to the old way.</para></listitem>
  683. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 2: Added the Which
  684. Platform? section.</para></listitem>
  685. </itemizedlist>
  686. <para>3.1 - December 3rd, 2001</para>
  687. <itemizedlist>
  688. <listitem><para>Added:
  689. <itemizedlist>
  690. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j</para></listitem>
  691. </itemizedlist>
  692. </para></listitem>
  693. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  694. <itemizedlist>
  695. <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.4</para></listitem>
  696. <listitem><para>bash-2.05a</para></listitem>
  697. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.25</para></listitem>
  698. <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.40</para></listitem>
  699. <listitem><para>libtool-1.4.2</para></listitem>
  700. <listitem><para>lilo-22.1</para></listitem>
  701. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.16</para></listitem>
  702. <listitem><para>man-1.5j</para></listitem>
  703. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.43</para></listitem>
  704. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.12</para></listitem>
  705. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.83</para></listitem>
  706. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11m</para></listitem>
  707. <listitem><para>vim-6.0</para></listitem>
  708. </itemizedlist>
  709. </para></listitem>
  710. <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Updated to
  711. man-1.5j. Removed the sed which we had to use with the old version as
  712. the new one detects awk properly.</para></listitem>
  713. <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5: Added static
  714. library explanation originally posted on lfs-apps (when it still
  715. existed) by Plasmatic.</para></listitem>
  716. <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  717. kernel-2.4.16 and modutils-2.4.12.</para></listitem>
  718. <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added FHS
  719. compliance notes to the findutils installation.</para></listitem>
  720. <listitem><para>November 19th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  721. bash-2.05a, lilo-22.1, MAKEDEV-1.4, man-pages-1.43 and
  722. util-linux-2.11m.</para></listitem>
  723. <listitem><para>November 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Created new lex
  724. script instead of link to flex following comment on lfs-dev. (This is
  725. similar to what we do with bison and yacc).</para></listitem>
  726. <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: General: Large XML Tidy-up.
  727. Shouldn't affect the book text or layout. If it does, something has
  728. gone wrong!</para></listitem>
  729. <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added
  730. reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j and updated to lilo-22.0.2.</para></listitem>
  731. <listitem><para>October 24th, 2001 [markh]: General: Fixed a bundle of
  732. spelling errors which were reported.</para></listitem>
  733. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Kernel: Added
  734. explanation as to why we copy the kernel headers rather than symlink
  735. them.</para></listitem>
  736. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added
  737. uncompress to the gunzip description as it was
  738. missing.</para></listitem>
  739. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
  740. Removed the USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin entry as it's no longer needed with
  741. util-linux-2.11l.</para></listitem>
  742. <listitem><para>October 9th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Kbd: Removed the
  743. --datadir option, kbd's default is set properly already.</para></listitem>
  744. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Mentioned
  745. the <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt"/>
  746. lfs-hint</para></listitem>
  747. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Vim: Changed the
  748. installation instructions to fix a bug in vim-6.0's
  749. <filename>syntax/sh.vim</filename> file, and added the CPPFLAGS variable
  750. to specify the global vimrc file as
  751. <filename>/etc/vimrc</filename></para></listitem>
  752. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Updated to
  753. libtool-1.4.2, lilo-22.0, man-pages-1.40, modutils-2.4.10, sysvinit-2.83,
  754. util-linux-2.11l and vim-6.0</para></listitem>
  755. <listitem><para>October 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 9 - The End: Added the
  756. reference to the LFS Counter at
  757. <ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi"/></para></listitem>
  758. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - News server:
  759. Added reference to the news server</para></listitem>
  760. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Changed
  761. --with-root-prefix=/ to --with-root-prefix="" in e2fsprogs install
  762. instructions. The reason for the change is that a value of / will cause
  763. symlinks and installation paths to use things like //lib instead of
  764. just /lib. This isn't bad perse, it just doesn't look
  765. nice.</para></listitem>
  766. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  767. e2fsprogs-1.25, gettext-0.10.40, linux-2.4.10, modutils-2.4.9 and
  768. util-linux-2.11i.</para></listitem>
  769. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
  770. descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>
  771. </itemizedlist>
  772. <para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>
  773. <itemizedlist>
  774. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  775. <itemizedlist>
  776. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>
  777. </itemizedlist>
  778. </para></listitem>
  779. <listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
  780. mailing list information to reflect the new ml
  781. structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
  782. to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>
  783. <listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
  784. Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
  785. --enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads
  786. when
  787. not specified, it's clearer this way what's being
  788. enabled.</para></listitem>
  789. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
  790. Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
  791. isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
  792. configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
  793. rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
  794. /bin).</para></listitem>
  795. <listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
  796. Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
  797. /usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
  798. /usr/bin.</para></listitem>
  799. <listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
  800. Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>
  801. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
  802. missing &amp;&amp; to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
  803. instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
  804. running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>
  805. </itemizedlist>
  806. </sect1>