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  9. <title>Changelog</title>
  10. <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  11. &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
  12. version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  13. mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
  14. <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  15. book.</para>
  16. <itemizedlist>
  17. <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
  18. <!-- Changelog template
  19. <listitem>
  20. <para>Date</para>
  21. <itemizedlist>
  22. <listitem>
  23. <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
  24. </listitem>
  25. <listitem>
  26. <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
  27. </listitem>
  28. </itemizedlist>
  29. </listitem>
  30. -->
  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>2009-05-16</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[bdubbs] - Remove reference to watch program not
  36. supporting UTF-8 locales in the Bash Sheel Startup
  37. Files section.
  38. Fixes
  39. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2310">#2310</ulink>.</para>
  40. </listitem>
  41. <listitem>
  42. <para>[bdubbs] - Update gcc instruction explanations.
  43. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
  44. Fixes
  45. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2363">#2363</ulink>.</para>
  46. </listitem>
  47. <listitem>
  48. <para>[bdubbs] - Add an explanation about using the barrier
  49. option in fstab.
  50. Fixes
  51. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2318">#2318</ulink>.</para>
  52. </listitem>
  53. <listitem>
  54. <para>[bdubbs] - Add zlib-1.2.3-fPIC-1.patch which allows
  55. building static and dynamic libraries in one step. Also
  56. moved the libraries to /usr/lib.
  57. Fixes
  58. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2329">#2329</ulink>.</para>
  59. </listitem>
  60. <listitem>
  61. <para>[bdubbs] - Make symbolic links installed by bzip2 relative.
  62. Fixes
  63. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2396">#2396</ulink>.</para>
  64. </listitem>
  65. <listitem>
  66. <para>[matthew] - Add creation of
  67. <filename>/etc/modprobe.conf</filename> to prevent ohci_hcd and
  68. uhci_hcd modules being loaded before ehci_hcd, and thus avoid a
  69. boot-time warning. Fixes
  70. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2280">#2280</ulink>.</para>
  71. </listitem>
  72. <listitem>
  73. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-142. Fixes
  74. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2395">#2395</ulink>.</para>
  75. </listitem>
  76. <listitem>
  77. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.4. Fixes
  78. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2394">#2394</ulink>.</para>
  79. </listitem>
  80. <listitem>
  81. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.7. Fixes
  82. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2392">#2392</ulink>.</para>
  83. </listitem>
  84. <listitem>
  85. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Procps-3.2.8. Fixes
  86. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2393">#2393</ulink>.</para>
  87. </listitem>
  88. <listitem>
  89. <para>[matthew] - Update table of languages &amp; encodings supported
  90. by Man-DB. Remove alteration of man_db.conf, as the latest version of
  91. Man-DB handles the <filename class="symlink">/usr/share/man</filename>
  92. symlink correctly. Also, remove <command>convert-mans</command> as
  93. the latest version of Man-DB correctly detects the encoding of manual
  94. pages. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2298">#2298</ulink>.</para>
  95. </listitem>
  96. </itemizedlist>
  97. </listitem>
  98. <listitem>
  99. <para>2009-05-10</para>
  100. <itemizedlist>
  101. <listitem>
  102. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.5.7. Fixes
  103. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2385">#2385</ulink>.</para>
  104. </listitem>
  105. <listitem>
  106. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.1.3.1. Fixes
  107. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2382">#2382</ulink>.</para>
  108. </listitem>
  109. <listitem>
  110. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed-4.2. Fixes
  111. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2389">#2389</ulink>.</para>
  112. </listitem>
  113. <listitem>
  114. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Module-Init-Tools-3.8. Fixes
  115. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2381">#2381</ulink>.</para>
  116. </listitem>
  117. <listitem>
  118. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-3.21. Fixes
  119. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2384">#2384</ulink>.</para>
  120. </listitem>
  121. <listitem>
  122. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.13. Fixes
  123. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2377">#2377</ulink>.</para>
  124. </listitem>
  125. <listitem>
  126. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.29.3. Fixes
  127. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2374">#2374</ulink>.</para>
  128. </listitem>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-429. Fixes
  131. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2380">#2380</ulink>.</para>
  132. </listitem>
  133. <listitem>
  134. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.29-1. Fixes
  135. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2375">#2375</ulink>.</para>
  136. </listitem>
  137. <listitem>
  138. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GMP-4.3.0. Fixes
  139. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2390">#2390</ulink>.</para>
  140. </listitem>
  141. <listitem>
  142. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.4.0. Fixes
  143. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2388">#2388</ulink>.</para>
  144. </listitem>
  145. <listitem>
  146. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.4.1. Fixes
  147. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2387">#2387</ulink>.</para>
  148. </listitem>
  149. <listitem>
  150. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.41.5. Fixes
  151. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2386">#2386</ulink>.</para>
  152. </listitem>
  153. <listitem>
  154. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-7.4. Fixes
  155. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2376">#2376</ulink>.</para>
  156. </listitem>
  157. <listitem>
  158. <para>[matthew] - Add upstream Bash fixes patch.</para>
  159. </listitem>
  160. </itemizedlist>
  161. </listitem>
  162. <listitem>
  163. <para>2009-04-27</para>
  164. <itemizedlist>
  165. <listitem>
  166. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Udev-141.</para>
  167. </listitem>
  168. </itemizedlist>
  169. </listitem>
  170. <listitem>
  171. <para>2009-04-13</para>
  172. <itemizedlist>
  173. <listitem>
  174. <para>[bdubbs] - Remove erroneous --enable threads from M4.</para>
  175. </listitem>
  176. </itemizedlist>
  177. </listitem>
  178. <listitem>
  179. <para>2009-03-21</para>
  180. <itemizedlist>
  181. <listitem>
  182. <para>[matthew] - Re-introduce the Glibc-libidn package, as the
  183. release tarball doesn't include it. Thanks to Alexander Kozlov for
  184. the report.</para>
  185. </listitem>
  186. <listitem>
  187. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-140. Fixes
  188. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2370">#2370</ulink>.</para>
  189. </listitem>
  190. <listitem>
  191. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-DB-2.5.5. Fixes
  192. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2372">#2372</ulink>.</para>
  193. </listitem>
  194. <listitem>
  195. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.28.8. Fixes
  196. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2373">#2373</ulink>.</para>
  197. </listitem>
  198. </itemizedlist>
  199. </listitem>
  200. <listitem>
  201. <para>2009-03-20</para>
  202. <itemizedlist>
  203. <listitem>
  204. <para>[matthew] - Don't move readlink to /bin. It's not specified by
  205. the FHS and not required by the bootscripts, so can stay in
  206. /usr/bin. Thanks to Archaic for the report.</para>
  207. </listitem>
  208. </itemizedlist>
  209. </listitem>
  210. <listitem>
  211. <para>2009-03-15</para>
  212. <itemizedlist>
  213. <listitem>
  214. <para>[bryan] - Remove the uucp group (replace with dialout). Handle
  215. ISDN devices with a file from upstream.</para>
  216. </listitem>
  217. </itemizedlist>
  218. </listitem>
  219. <listitem>
  220. <para>2009-03-12</para>
  221. <itemizedlist>
  222. <listitem>
  223. <para>[matthew] - Correct some dependency info. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
  224. report and patch. Fixes
  225. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2368">#2368</ulink>.</para>
  226. </listitem>
  227. <listitem>
  228. <para>[matthew] - Fix a few typos. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and
  229. patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2367">#2367</ulink>.</para>
  230. </listitem>
  231. <listitem>
  232. <para>[matthew] - Reword the explanation of the Expect tests in Binutils'
  233. instructions to clarify what the expected test output is. Thanks to Chris
  234. Staub for the report and patch. Fixes
  235. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2365">#2365</ulink>.</para>
  236. </listitem>
  237. <listitem>
  238. <para>[matthew] - Reorder the contents of chapter 7 to flow better. Thanks to
  239. Chris Staub for the report and suggested order. Fixes
  240. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2366">#2366</ulink>.</para>
  241. </listitem>
  242. <listitem>
  243. <para>[matthew] - Install Inetutils' version of hostname, rather than
  244. Coreutils' version, as it is more featureful. Thanks to Chris Staub &amp;
  245. DJ Lucas. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2364">#2364</ulink>.</para>
  246. </listitem>
  247. <listitem>
  248. <para>[matthew] - Build mkswap in chapter 5's Util-Linux-NG as it is
  249. required by the e2fsprogs test suite. Also, remove the now
  250. unnecessary BLKID_LIBS variable. Fixes
  251. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2361">#2361</ulink>. Thanks to Chris
  252. Staub for the reports.</para>
  253. </listitem>
  254. </itemizedlist>
  255. </listitem>
  256. <listitem>
  257. <para>2009-03-11</para>
  258. <itemizedlist>
  259. <listitem>
  260. <para>[matthew] - Mention Dejagnu test suite, as a C++ compiler is
  261. available in chapter 5. Fixes
  262. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2362">#2362</ulink>. Thanks to Chris
  263. Staub for the report and patch.</para>
  264. </listitem>
  265. <listitem>
  266. <para>[matthew] - Remove an obsolete GCC fixup command from Inetutils'
  267. instructions. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2360">#2360</ulink>.
  268. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
  269. </listitem>
  270. <listitem>
  271. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-139. Fixes
  272. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2350">#2350</ulink>.</para>
  273. </listitem>
  274. <listitem>
  275. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tar-1.22. Fixes
  276. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2358">#2358</ulink>.</para>
  277. </listitem>
  278. <listitem>
  279. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Readline-6.0. Fixes
  280. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2353">#2353</ulink>.</para>
  281. </listitem>
  282. <listitem>
  283. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to MPFR-2.4.1. Fixes
  284. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2359">#2359</ulink>.</para>
  285. </listitem>
  286. <listitem>
  287. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.19. Fixes
  288. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2352">#2352</ulink>.</para>
  289. </listitem>
  290. <listitem>
  291. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.4. Fixes
  292. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2356">#2356</ulink> and
  293. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2338">#2338</ulink>.</para>
  294. </listitem>
  295. <listitem>
  296. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.7. Fixes
  297. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2349">#2349</ulink>.</para>
  298. </listitem>
  299. <listitem>
  300. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Glibc-2.9. Fixes
  301. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2357">#2357</ulink>.</para>
  302. </listitem>
  303. <listitem>
  304. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Coreutils-7.1. Fixes
  305. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2354">#2354</ulink>.</para>
  306. </listitem>
  307. <listitem>
  308. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bash-4.0. Fixes
  309. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2351">#2351</ulink>.</para>
  310. </listitem>
  311. </itemizedlist>
  312. </listitem>
  313. <listitem>
  314. <para>2009-02-17</para>
  315. <itemizedlist>
  316. <listitem>
  317. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.5. Fixes
  318. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2348">#2348</ulink>.</para>
  319. </listitem>
  320. <listitem>
  321. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Grep-2.5.4. Fixes
  322. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2346">#2346</ulink>.</para>
  323. </listitem>
  324. <listitem>
  325. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.18. Fixes
  326. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2347">#2347</ulink>.</para>
  327. </listitem>
  328. <listitem>
  329. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Util-Linux-NG-2.14.2. Fixes
  330. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2345">#2345</ulink>.</para>
  331. </listitem>
  332. </itemizedlist>
  333. </listitem>
  334. <listitem>
  335. <para>2009-02-08</para>
  336. <itemizedlist>
  337. <listitem>
  338. <para>[matthew] - Remove the &quot;enable-multibyte&quot; configure
  339. switch from Groff, which is not required following the upgrade to
  340. Groff-1.20.1. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  341. </listitem>
  342. <listitem>
  343. <para>[matthew] - Install sysklogd binaries to
  344. <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename> for FHS compatibility.
  345. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2317">#2317</ulink>.</para>
  346. </listitem>
  347. <listitem>
  348. <para>[matthew] - Replaced the link to the now non-existent udev-FAQ
  349. to a more general udev information page. Fixes
  350. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2306">#2306</ulink>.</para>
  351. </listitem>
  352. <listitem>
  353. <para>[matthew] - Added a link to the wget-list file. Fixes
  354. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2333">#2333</ulink>.</para>
  355. </listitem>
  356. <listitem>
  357. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Module-init-Tools-3.6. Fixes
  358. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2343">#2343</ulink>.</para>
  359. </listitem>
  360. <listitem>
  361. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to File-5.00. Fixes
  362. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2342">#2342</ulink>.</para>
  363. </listitem>
  364. <listitem>
  365. <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to suppress a warning added in
  366. Tar-1.21 that causes the Perl testsuite to fail.</para>
  367. </listitem>
  368. <listitem>
  369. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to MPFR-2.4.0. Fixes
  370. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2341">#2341</ulink>.</para>
  371. </listitem>
  372. <listitem>
  373. <para>[matthew] - Install MPFR's documentation. Fixes
  374. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2232">#2232</ulink>. Thanks to Randy
  375. McMurchy for the report and assistance with the fix.</para>
  376. </listitem>
  377. <listitem>
  378. <para>[matthew] - Remove an unneeded --sysconfdir parameter in
  379. Inetutils' instructions. Fixes
  380. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2313">#2313</ulink>.</para>
  381. </listitem>
  382. <listitem>
  383. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.4. Fixes
  384. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2340">#2340</ulink>.</para>
  385. </listitem>
  386. <listitem>
  387. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Binutils-2.19.1. Fixes
  388. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2339">#2339</ulink>.</para>
  389. </listitem>
  390. </itemizedlist>
  391. </listitem>
  392. <listitem>
  393. <para>2009-02-01</para>
  394. <itemizedlist>
  395. <listitem>
  396. <para>[matthew] - Remove the redundant SBINDIR parameter from
  397. IPRoute2's commands. Fixes the remaining part of
  398. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2307">#2307</ulink>.</para>
  399. </listitem>
  400. <listitem>
  401. <para>[matthew] - Install DRM-related Linux headers, as suggested by
  402. Chris Staub in <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2307">#2307</ulink>.
  403. </para>
  404. </listitem>
  405. <listitem>
  406. <para>[matthew] - Added preloadable_libintl.so to list of files
  407. installed by Gettext. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.
  408. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2312">#2312</ulink>.</para>
  409. </listitem>
  410. <listitem>
  411. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-137. Fixes
  412. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2328">#2328</ulink>.</para>
  413. </listitem>
  414. <listitem>
  415. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.5.6. Fixes
  416. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2305">#2305</ulink>.</para>
  417. </listitem>
  418. <listitem>
  419. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Tar-1.21. Fixes
  420. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2309">#2309</ulink>.</para>
  421. </listitem>
  422. <listitem>
  423. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Patch-2.5.9. Fixes
  424. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2239">#2239</ulink>.</para>
  425. </listitem>
  426. <listitem>
  427. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.17. Fixes
  428. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2327">#2327</ulink>.</para>
  429. </listitem>
  430. <listitem>
  431. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.28.2. Fixes
  432. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2316">#2316</ulink>.</para>
  433. </listitem>
  434. <listitem>
  435. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to IPRoute2-2.6.28. Fixes
  436. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2324">#2324</ulink>.</para>
  437. </listitem>
  438. <listitem>
  439. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Inetutils-1.6. Fixes
  440. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2308">#2308</ulink>.</para>
  441. </listitem>
  442. <listitem>
  443. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Groff-1.20.1. Fixes
  444. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2322">#2322</ulink>.</para>
  445. </listitem>
  446. <listitem>
  447. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to GCC-4.3.3. Fixes
  448. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2334">#2334</ulink>.</para>
  449. </listitem>
  450. <listitem>
  451. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.41.4. Fixes
  452. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2336">#2336</ulink>.</para>
  453. </listitem>
  454. <listitem>
  455. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bison-2.4.1. Fixes
  456. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2300">#2300</ulink>.</para>
  457. </listitem>
  458. <listitem>
  459. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bash-3.2.48. Fixes
  460. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2319">#2319</ulink>.</para>
  461. </listitem>
  462. </itemizedlist>
  463. </listitem>
  464. <listitem>
  465. <para>2009-01-24</para>
  466. <itemizedlist>
  467. <listitem>
  468. <para>[matthew] - Corrected some package tarball sizes. Fixes
  469. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2290">#2290</ulink>.</para>
  470. </listitem>
  471. </itemizedlist>
  472. </listitem>
  473. <listitem>
  474. <para>2009-01-03</para>
  475. <itemizedlist>
  476. <listitem>
  477. <para>[bdubbs] - Reformatted several pages so pdf is properly
  478. generated. Thanks to Martin Miehe for the changes.
  479. </para>
  480. </listitem>
  481. </itemizedlist>
  482. </listitem>
  483. <listitem>
  484. <para>2008-12-29</para>
  485. <itemizedlist>
  486. <listitem>
  487. <para>[bdubbs] - Split one udev rule so it is not wider than the
  488. book's page.
  489. </para>
  490. </listitem>
  491. </itemizedlist>
  492. </listitem>
  493. <listitem>
  494. <para>2008-12-24</para>
  495. <itemizedlist>
  496. <listitem>
  497. <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the location of glibc-2.8-20080929.tar.bz2.
  498. </para>
  499. </listitem>
  500. </itemizedlist>
  501. </listitem>
  502. <listitem>
  503. <para>2008-12-19</para>
  504. <itemizedlist>
  505. <listitem>
  506. <para>[robert] - Added -v to the install command for the convert-mans
  507. script in the man-db page, for consistent use of verbose commands.</para>
  508. </listitem>
  509. </itemizedlist>
  510. </listitem>
  511. <listitem>
  512. <para>2008-12-18</para>
  513. <itemizedlist>
  514. <listitem>
  515. <para>[robert] - Removed the unneeded -e option from the Sed command
  516. in the chap6 Findutils page, for consistency.</para>
  517. </listitem>
  518. </itemizedlist>
  519. </listitem>
  520. <listitem>
  521. <para>2008-12-07</para>
  522. <itemizedlist>
  523. <listitem>
  524. <para>[jhuntwork] - Update Greg Schafer's entry in the acknowledgments section to
  525. properly reflect the work done in designing the build method.</para>
  526. </listitem>
  527. </itemizedlist>
  528. </listitem>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>2008-12-06</para>
  531. <itemizedlist>
  532. <listitem>
  533. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to vim-7.2-fixes-4.patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2296">#2296</ulink>.
  534. </para>
  535. </listitem>
  536. <listitem>
  537. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Udev-135. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2284">#2284</ulink>.</para>
  538. </listitem>
  539. <listitem>
  540. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Shadow-4.1.2.2. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2287">#2287</ulink>.</para>
  541. </listitem>
  542. <listitem>
  543. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to readline-5.2-fixes-6.patch. Fixes
  544. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2295">#2295</ulink>.</para>
  545. </listitem>
  546. <listitem>
  547. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Ncurses-5.7. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2276">#2276</ulink>.</para>
  548. </listitem>
  549. <listitem>
  550. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Module-Init-Tools-3.5. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2245">#2245</ulink>.
  551. </para>
  552. </listitem>
  553. <listitem>
  554. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-3.15. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2269">#2269</ulink>.</para>
  555. </listitem>
  556. <listitem>
  557. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.3. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2283">#2283</ulink>.</para>
  558. </listitem>
  559. <listitem>
  560. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.27.8. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2282">#2282</ulink>.</para>
  561. </listitem>
  562. <listitem>
  563. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Kbd-1.15. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2291">#2291</ulink>.</para>
  564. </listitem>
  565. <listitem>
  566. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Bison-2.4. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2281">#2281</ulink>.</para>
  567. </listitem>
  568. <listitem>
  569. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Binutils-2.19. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2268">#2268</ulink>.</para>
  570. </listitem>
  571. <listitem>
  572. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to bash-3.2-fixes-9.patch. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2294">#2294</ulink>.
  573. </para>
  574. </listitem>
  575. <listitem>
  576. <para>[matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.2. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2286">#2286</ulink>.</para>
  577. </listitem>
  578. </itemizedlist>
  579. </listitem>
  580. <listitem>
  581. <para>2008-12-04</para>
  582. <itemizedlist>
  583. <listitem>
  584. <para>[jhuntwork] - Introduce new build method in Chapter 5 originating
  585. in DIY-Linux. Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
  586. </listitem>
  587. <listitem>
  588. <para>[jhuntwork] - Move instructions for GRUB to chapter 8 just after the
  589. compilation of the kernel. Merge GRUB build and configuration instructions
  590. into one page.</para>
  591. </listitem>
  592. </itemizedlist>
  593. </listitem>
  594. <listitem>
  595. <para>2008-12-03</para>
  596. <itemizedlist>
  597. <listitem>
  598. <para>[jhuntwork] - Initial addition of support for building on x86_64.
  599. Several ideas, principles and build instructions originated in DIY-Linux.
  600. Thanks, Greg Schafer.</para>
  601. </listitem>
  602. </itemizedlist>
  603. </listitem>
  604. <listitem>
  605. <para>2008-12-02</para>
  606. <itemizedlist>
  607. <listitem>
  608. <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved grep up in the build order of chapter 6
  609. to be before libtool which hardcodes references to grep in its installed
  610. files. Was previously circumvented by a symlink, but this approach sticks
  611. more closely to our build order policy. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the reminder.</para>
  612. </listitem>
  613. </itemizedlist>
  614. </listitem>
  615. <listitem>
  616. <para>2008-12-01</para>
  617. <itemizedlist>
  618. <listitem>
  619. <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjusted the line break in the adjusting toolchain
  620. section so that the output redirection does not look like a secondary
  621. bash prompt. Thanks to Chris Staub for the idea.</para>
  622. </listitem>
  623. </itemizedlist>
  624. </listitem>
  625. <listitem>
  626. <para>2008-11-23</para>
  627. <itemizedlist>
  628. <listitem>
  629. <para>[ken] - Added note to gmp about CFLAGS on 64-bit-capable
  630. machines. Reported by Tobias Gasser, thanks to Greg Schafer for
  631. the analysis.</para>
  632. </listitem>
  633. </itemizedlist>
  634. </listitem>
  635. </itemizedlist>
  636. <para>LFS 6.4 released November 23, 2008.</para>
  637. </sect1>