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