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- <sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
- <title>Changelog</title>
- <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html" dir="chapter01"?>
- <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Upgraded to:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>automake-1.6.3</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>binutils-2.13</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>bison-1.35</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8.1</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>file-3.39</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gcc-3.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.5</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>groff-1.18</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>linux-2.4.19</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.7</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>man-1.5k</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>man-pages-1.52</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.19</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>perl-5.8.0</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>psmisc-21</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>texinfo-4.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>textutils-2.1</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Added:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>ed-0.2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1-2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gcc-3.2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5-2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-3.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>procps-2.0.7.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>zlib-1.1.4</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Removed:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4a.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Zlib:
- <userinput>mv</userinput> shared lib to /lib.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
- Removed the <userinput>--enable-threads=posix</userinput> flag since we
- don't build a C++ compiler in this chapter.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Introduction:
- Removed paragraph about static linking since it seems misleading and is
- covered in better detail in <emphasis>Why Static</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux:
- Removed <userinput>cd</userinput> command.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses:
- Removed old <userinput>mv /lib/*.a /usr/lib</userinput> command
- explanation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added
- --libdir=/usr/lib to the configure script options. This way a proper
- <filename>libshadow.la</filename> is generated. Also changed the
- <userinput>mv</userinput> command to move all the
- <filename>libshadow.so*</filename> files to the <filename
- class="directory">/lib</filename> directory. The <filename>lib*a</filename>
- files are already in the <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>
- directory.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Added
- another regex to the <userinput>sed</userinput> command that modifies the
- <filename>man.conf</filename> file. The added regex comments out the
- <emphasis>MANPATH /usr/man</emphasis> line which causes for duplicate
- results when using the <userinput>whatis</userinput>
- command</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added the
- <emphasis>Linux Threads Man Pages</emphasis> installation after the Perl
- installation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Create mtab
- link: Made the <userinput>ln</userinput> command an <userinput>ln
- -sf</userinput> so the existing <filename>/etc/mtab</filename> file, created
- by the <userinput>mount</userinput> command, will be removed before
- re-creating it as a symlink.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Sh-utils: Added
- the sh-utils-hostname patch that supresses the build of the hostname
- program. This is done because the hostname program from the net-tools
- package is superior over this version.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Updated
- the Gawk patch. It also changes the <emphasis>DDEFPATH</emphasis> directory
- location now.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Added
- patch that fixes a locale problem that makes <userinput>top</userinput>
- crash under certain locale settings.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Creating a
- file system: Referenced alternative filesystems in BLFS.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all superfluous
- <filename>/usr/lib/*.so</filename> symbolic links from library
- installations.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
- lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure
- Sysvinit: Changed the sulogin line to <emphasis>once</emphasis> instead of
- having it respawn. This way it'll behave as expected (ie: a CTRL+D will
- continue instead of restart sulogin).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Added the
- <emphasis>--enable-clocale=gnu</emphasis> option to ensure the proper
- locale mode is used by the C++ libraries.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Grammatic
- changes.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's
- grammar changes patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gzip:
- Added gzip-1.2.4b.patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Textutils:
- Added re_max_failures2 for old host systems.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Bash: Removed
- creation of sh symlink. Creating the bash and sh symlinks: Added /bin/bash
- symlink, symlinked sh to bash. Gzip, Sysvinit, Util-Linux: Shortened cp
- command. Makedev: Removed /bin/bash creation and removal. Man: Modified sed
- statement to edit less call, so SGR will work.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - About
- debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed
- statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Install all
- software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the
- compilation of symbols in static packages.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Makedev:
- Put rm /bin/bash after device creation. Perl: Removed information
- about the old patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Re-added
- HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN; removed --enable-__cxa-atexit which was incorrect and
- not needed in this chapter; added information about the
- patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new Glibc patch and
- introducted a GCC patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to automake-1.6.3,
- gcc-3.2, groff-1.18, makedev-1.7, perl-5.8.0,
- util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Appendix: Added
- missing URLs to patches.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06:
- Changed ln -sf to ln -s wherever possible.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Binutils: cp
- libiberty.h after install, as it is needed by certain software. Shadow:
- added command to remove the groups program installed by Shadow because
- Sh-utils installs a (better) groups program.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Re-added
- sh-utils-2.0.patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 16th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move man-pages to
- just after the kernel headers installation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move the MAKEDEV
- installation to before glibc and remove the temporary creation of
- <filename>/dev/null</filename> as we don't need it
- anymore.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Preparing a new
- partition: mentioned that a swap partition can be shared between the LFS
- and host systems, grammatic changes.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed the
- <emphasis>--with-curses</emphasis> switch from the Bash installation as
- it's unnecessary here.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to modutils-2.4.19,
- linux-2.4.19, gettext-0.11.5, binutils-2.13, textutils-2.1.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Vim: changed
- alternative editors link from hints to BLFS.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: removed
- the <emphasis>--disable-termcap</emphasis> configure option. Termcap is
- disabled by default now, so no need for this option (left over from a long
- time ago when it was needed).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added the
- command <userinput>cp include/asm-generic /usr/include</userinput>. There
- are programs which use the files in there, as well as headers in the
- <filename class="directory">asm</filename> directory may be split up in the
- future, and put in the
- <filename class="directory">asm-generic</filename>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: added the
- missing program description of msgcat.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52,
- man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils-2.4.18.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs.
- Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 & 05 - Creating
- a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils,
- Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead
- of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to
- auto-host.h.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: added
- --disable-profile flag.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux:
- added information about modules and kernel documentation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
- system: added a command to remove the static directory.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
- system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Sysvinit: Simplified
- the sed command and updated the installation description because init now
- prints "Sending processes" instead of "Sending all processes".</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change - Made all
- patches use a &package-patch-version; entity and removed all
- hardcoding of patch versions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and
- automake-1.6.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow, Util-linux,
- LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Net-tools,
- Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison,
- Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps,
- Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 & 06 - M4,
- Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added "last checked against" for uniformity.
- GCC: Removed i686-specific programs.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gettext:
- Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Binutils,
- Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description
- of c++filt.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - The End:
- Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-&version; to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version
- number inside this file.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
- Modified the build instructions and command explanations to
- only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed
- until after the second GCC build.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: grammatic
- changes.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Gawk:
- Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils:
- Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC:
- Updated the package contents.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the
- estimated required disk space.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Creating
- Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p
- option to mkdir which will create the usr directory
- anyways.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Reiserfsprogs:
- added a description for unpack.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 - How to ask for
- help: mentioned the FAQ.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up
- explanations following the /static change.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface - Who would not want to
- read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar
- patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors.
- Chapter 06 - Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 - Gawk: to avoid confusion,
- mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited
- to include reporting typos.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the
- CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1
- systems.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Update to
- binutils-2.12.1.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed
- section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer
- have the commands referred to there.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the
- various sed fixes with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the
- sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced
- the sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the
- sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership:
- removed the explicit command to chown <filename
- class="directory">/lost+found</filename>. This is done by the first command
- now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
- ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used
- one).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1,
- bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2,
- modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix
- patches for ncurses, perl and vim.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed
- the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to
- chapter 06-binutils.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk & Findutils:
- simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We
- can live with a
- <filename class="directory">$LFS/static/libexecdir</filename> being created.
- The whole <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory is
- temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks
- like.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories:
- removed the <userinput>cd /</userinput> command and changed the two
- <userinput>chmod</userinput> commands to use absolute paths
- instead.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor
- corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't
- wanted.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the
- keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added
- findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5
- into <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> and re-ordered the
- installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path
- (files from <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename>).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
- more descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some
- descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some
- descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
- more descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
- descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
- more descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown
- X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info
- chown).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added
- http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
- more descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the
- instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter
- 05 gzip instructions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML
- fixups; mainly altering <ulink> tags to remove erroneous &#13;
- in the HTML output.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the
- missing descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the
- symlink location of <filename class="symlink">vigr</filename> to
- <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the
- two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be
- mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the
- <userinput>cd dir && ln -sf</userinput> commands to one single command
- (such as <userinput>ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh</userinput> Same goes for
- <userinput>cd dir && mv/cp</userinput> constructions which are now replaced
- with constructions like
- <userinput>mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin</userinput></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS
- library files" section.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds -
- gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the
- <userinput>export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR</userinput> constructions and
- changed them to <userinput>VAR=VALUE ./configure</userinput>
- constructions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added
- libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in
- updatedb.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
- that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
- then you first need to create the
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to
- MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to
- cvs and split up index.xml.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following
- packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp
- to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static
- pcre library.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the
- http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement
- ftp://ftp.de).</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>3.3 - April 7th, 2002</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Updated to:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>autoconf-2.53</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>automake-1.6</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>bison-1.34</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>bzip2-1.0.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.27</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.0</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.1</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>grep-2.5</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>less-374</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>linux-2.4.18</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>man-pages-1.48</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.15</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>texinfo-4.1</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>vim-6.1</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 7th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new mirror site located
- in Freising, Germany</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Added this
- page explaining that you can remove the loadkeys symlink from <filename
- class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d</filename> if you compiled a keymap
- directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configuring
- Keyboard: explained you can also compile the keymap directly into the
- kernel which has additional benefits.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
- lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - GCC: Added
- commands to remove the <filename class="directory">/usr/*-gnu</filename>
- directory.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 4th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Diffutils: Added
- --disable-nls</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: Added the
- missing package descriptions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Mounting $LFS/proc:
- Added <userinput>chown root.root $LFS/proc</userinput>. The recursive chown
- operation in chapter 6 doesn't touch proc, so this'll remain owned by user
- <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>. It's not a big deal, just not a very clean thing
- to do.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Added a few
- symlinks that are used by programs like <userinput>xman</userinput> and
- others.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Mounting partitions:
- Added some notes how to deal with multiple partitions ($LFS, $LFS/usr and
- so on).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - E2fsprogs: Added
- <userinput>install-info</userinput> command to finish off the info page
- installation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Reversed the
- <userinput>make</userinput> and <userinput>make -f
- Makefile-libbz2_so</userinput>. This is needed so all object files are
- compiled with the PIC option (Position Independent Code).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Linux: Shortened the
- installation instructions by cutting out the <userinput>make
- config</userinput> and <userinput>make dep</userinput>
- stages.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 -
- Gawk: Added a warning to never run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on
- the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to <userinput>rm -rf
- /usr/bin/*</userinput> because we override the <filename
- class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition to <filename
- class="directory">/usr/bin</filename></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to
- diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting
- for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script.
- Removed sed to fix problem with shell syntax highlighting in vim as that
- is fixed in the new version.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
- Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
- library description.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before we
- move <filename>/usr/bin/bzless</filename> and
- <filename>/usr/bin/bzmore</filename> to the <filename
- class="directory">/bin</filename> directory, we first remove the
- <filename>/bin/bzless</filename> and <filename>/bin/bzmore</filename>
- files. On some systems overwriting the existing files doesn't work due to
- hardlinks being used.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Sysklogd: Updated
- the download location to <ulink url="http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/"/></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 20th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure Dynamic
- Loader: Removed the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> directories from the
- <filename>ld.so.conf</filename> file. They were
- unnecessary.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06+Appendix A: Removed
- the chroot dependencies. It's not a package so it's a bit out of
- place.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Gawk: Added
- commands to sed the <filename>awklib/Makefile.in</filename> file to change
- the <emphasis>datadir</emphasis> and <emphasis>libexecdir</emphasis>
- definitions</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mailing lists:
- Added lfs-chat description</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06-Shadow: Move
- <filename>libmisc.*a</filename> to
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> too.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 14th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
- bison-1.34, gettext-0.11.1, grep-2.5, lfs-bootscripts-1.8,
- shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
- binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
- here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
- which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
- changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
- clock is set up.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
- the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
- The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used
- now).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk: Added
- -Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 bug fix for glibc-2.1.x
- systems.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before
- installing, remove <filename>/usr/bin/bz*</filename>. The bzip2
- installation doesn't deal with existing files properly when making hard
- links, so we remove the files first.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure keyboard:
- Added section to configure keyboard keymap file by creating the <filename
- class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
- symlink.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Make bootable: Added
- a <userinput>cp</userinput> command that finds all the kernel images from
- <filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> automatically and copies them to
- <filename class="directory">$LFS/boot</filename>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Moved the
- <filename>man.conf</filename> from <filename
- class="directory">/usr/share/misc</filename> to <filename
- class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07: Added a page about
- the sysklogd script and explain that the default script includes the
- <emphasis>-m 0</emphasis> option to
- <userinput>syslogd</userinput>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the Mawk package and
- replaced with the Gawk package. This was done because mawk is no longer
- being developed, while gawk is. Mawk has some POSIX compliance bugs that
- are fixed in Gawk.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to the following
- packages: autoconf-2.53, automake-1.6, bin86-0.16.2, bison-1.33,
- bzip2-1.0.2, e2fsprogs-1.27, gawk-3.1.0, gettext-0.11, less-374, lilo-22.2,
- linux-2.4.18, man-pages-1.48, modutils-2.4.14, reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b,
- shadow-4.0.2, texinfo-4.1, util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>3.2 - March 7th, 2002</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Updated to:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>March 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Creating
- directories: Removed the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
- and <filename class="directory">/usr/local/var</filename> directories. They
- aren't recommended by the <emphasis>FHS</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Make: Added
- commands to remove the setgid kmem bit from
- <filename>/usr/bin/make</filename>. This isn't needed on Linux systems to
- deal with the system load and it causes some other problems too that are
- fixed by removing the setgid bit.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
- lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Added
- the command again that moves $LFS/usr/bin/chroot to
- $LFS/usr/sbin</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard] Updated dependencies for all
- packages.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 15th, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 01: Added a new mirror
- to the list located in The Netherlands (www.nl and
- ftp.nl).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 11th, 2002 [markh] Chapter 05: Sh-utils:
- Removed extra && from end of install
- instructions.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils:
- Removed <emphasis>su</emphasis> from the <emphasis>mv</emphasis> command
- as this isn't installed in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>3.2-RC1 - February 10th, 2002</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Updated to:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>bison-1.31</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>file-3.37</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>linux-2.4.17</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>man-pages-1.47</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>psmisc-20.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.84</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11n</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem></itemizedlist>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added a sed
- command to change gzexe's hardcoded /usr/bin/gzip path and change it to
- /bin/gzip.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 + 6: Moved
- additional programs to the ($LFS)/bin directory that are used by the
- bootscripts. No programs used by bootscripts (except daemons themselves)
- should be in the /usr directory in case /usr isn't available until far
- along in the boot process (when it's an NFS share for
- example).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 6th, 2002 [markh]: Appendix A - All
- descriptions now synced and updated.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Changing owner:
- Added <quote>cd /</quote> so the leading slash can be removed from all the
- directories in the chown commands. It's more pleasant to type out this
- way.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
- lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Removed the
- compress symlink. Gzip can uncompress .Z files but it can't compress into
- that format.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
- lfs-bootscripts-1.3</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Glibc: Instead of
- sed'ing the <filename>config.make</filename> file, create the
- <filename>glibc-build/configparms</filename> file containing
- <quote>cross-compiling = no</quote>.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5: Changed
- the commands to copy the header files to support versions of cp older
- than 4.1.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Added
- CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" to the configure command for patch.
- This fixes compilation on PPC and m68k platforms and doesn't hurt on
- x86.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Mounting proc:
- Rephrased the text a bit (it implied you can only mount the proc fs more
- than once, which isn't true anymore these days).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 5: Enhanced the make
- mrproper explanation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5+6: Removed
- the --libexecdir flag from fileutils' configure options.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 6: Added a
- symlink from vipw to vigr after installing shadow.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Changed
- binutils and e2fsprogs installation instructions to use separate
- directories ala gcc and glibc.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bootscripts: Added
- a chown root.root after the cp.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Texinfo: the info
- programs works on the /usr/share/info directory not
- /usr/doc/info.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Procps: Fixed typo
- the path to the app-defaults directory (it's
- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and not
- usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configure
- software: Simplified the commands to create the utmp, btmp, lastlog and
- wtmp files.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter1: Moved
- Acknowledgements to be displayed as the first page in chapter
- 1.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Created a separate
- page to list the HTTP and FTP mirrors.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 4 - Creating
- partition: increased the suggested partition size from 750 MB to 1
- GB.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Combined
- the <quote>mv libshadow.a /usr/lib</quote> and
- <quote>mv libshadow.la /usr/lib</quote> commands into
- <quote>mv libshadow.*a /usr/lib</quote></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
- lfs-bootscripts-1.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Removed the
- datadir option from bisons configure flags, because recent bisons use the
- correct directory by default.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added the section
- Create /etc/mtab symlink.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the file -C command
- from the file installation. This package runs this command at the very end
- of the installation so we don't need to do this anymore.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 4+5+6: The static
- environment is now built as an unprivileged user, removing the risk of
- overwriting files of the host distribution.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 22nd, 2002 [markh]: Back out linuxthreads
- man-page installation instructions as they don't work (they need perl
- which we don't have installed at that point).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to glibc-2.2.5. At
- the same time, fixed the glibc installation so that the linuxthreads man
- pages are installed.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to bison-1.31,
- file-3.37, kernel-2.4.17, psmisc-20.2 and
- sysvinit-2.84.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to util-linux-2.11n
- and removed ADD_RAW=yes as it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to man-pages-1.47
- and removed the man-pages patch.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A: Added bootscripts
- files (dependencies, download location, descriptions)</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added bootscripts
- installation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 7: Removed most of the
- scripts, only left the part of a few where we set up config files in
- /etc/sysconfig.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configuring
- Sysvinit: Changed the inittab contents to match the new
- bootscripts.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
- the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header
- files installation in chapter 5 so it's a bit more portable.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Reformatted the dependency
- lists.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Happy New Year
- LFS!</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [markh]: First Changelog of New Year!
- Update copyright notice to cover 2002 ;-) OK - I'm
- sad...</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Reworded why
- ed is optional to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Reworded
- the TEXMF explanation to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 4: Replaced the "One
- partition hint" reference with lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt hint
- reference.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [markh]: Finish Appendix merge. All
- of the old appendices A, B and D are now in one (large) Appendix
- A.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 14th, 2001 [markh]: Merged appendices A and
- B.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix B: Changed dbhtml
- tag so that the flex page is now created as flex.html instead of
- flex</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix D: Moved
- metalab.unc.edu and ftp.ibiblio.org references to the proper URL
- ibiblio.org.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 12th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Moved
- the kbd patch to the default installation instructions; upgraded to
- kbd-1.06-2.patch to fix installation of some programs; added the
- descriptions for these programs; removed the loadkeys -d warning that
- was a leftover from the time where loadkeys -d wasn't fixed yet.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 11th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add the "why we
- cd $LFS before chroot" explanation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add kbd patch
- for loadkeys -d behaviour (patch by Matthias Benkmann; originally posted
- to the lfs-dev list).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Re-create
- symlinks in bash, fileutils and gcc instructions to make the Chapter 6
- instructions independent of those in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: Cleaned
- up the sed commands to use the backup file that was created earlier instead
- of writing to an intermediate 'tmp~' file.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: 'make'
- command for diffutils installation changed to 'make PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr.'
- This bug was reported by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Change the
- configure command from <emphasis>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr</emphasis> to
- <emphasis>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</emphasis>. This is more consistent
- with the installation instructions for the other packages, and the result
- is identical to the old way.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 2: Added the Which
- Platform? section.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>3.1 - December 3rd, 2001</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Added:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Updated to:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.4</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>bash-2.05a</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.25</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.40</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>libtool-1.4.2</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>lilo-22.1</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>linux-2.4.16</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>man-1.5j</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>man-pages-1.43</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.12</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.83</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11m</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>vim-6.0</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Updated to
- man-1.5j. Removed the sed which we had to use with the old version as
- the new one detects awk properly.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5: Added static
- library explanation originally posted on lfs-apps (when it still
- existed) by Plasmatic.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
- kernel-2.4.16 and modutils-2.4.12.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added FHS
- compliance notes to the findutils installation.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>November 19th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
- bash-2.05a, lilo-22.1, MAKEDEV-1.4, man-pages-1.43 and
- util-linux-2.11m.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>November 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Created new lex
- script instead of link to flex following comment on lfs-dev. (This is
- similar to what we do with bison and yacc).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: General: Large XML Tidy-up.
- Shouldn't affect the book text or layout. If it does, something has
- gone wrong!</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added
- reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j and updated to lilo-22.0.2.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 24th, 2001 [markh]: General: Fixed a bundle of
- spelling errors which were reported.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Kernel: Added
- explanation as to why we copy the kernel headers rather than symlink
- them.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added
- uncompress to the gunzip description as it was
- missing.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
- Removed the USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin entry as it's no longer needed with
- util-linux-2.11l.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 9th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Kbd: Removed the
- --datadir option, kbd's default is set properly already.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Mentioned
- the <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt"/>
- lfs-hint</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Vim: Changed the
- installation instructions to fix a bug in vim-6.0's
- <filename>syntax/sh.vim</filename> file, and added the CPPFLAGS variable
- to specify the global vimrc file as
- <filename>/etc/vimrc</filename></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Updated to
- libtool-1.4.2, lilo-22.0, man-pages-1.40, modutils-2.4.10, sysvinit-2.83,
- util-linux-2.11l and vim-6.0</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>October 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 9 - The End: Added the
- reference to the LFS Counter at
- <ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi"/></para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - News server:
- Added reference to the news server</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Changed
- --with-root-prefix=/ to --with-root-prefix="" in e2fsprogs install
- instructions. The reason for the change is that a value of / will cause
- symlinks and installation paths to use things like //lib instead of
- just /lib. This isn't bad perse, it just doesn't look
- nice.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
- e2fsprogs-1.25, gettext-0.10.40, linux-2.4.10, modutils-2.4.9 and
- util-linux-2.11i.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
- descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>Updated to:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
- mailing list information to reflect the new ml
- structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
- to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
- Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
- --enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads
- when
- not specified, it's clearer this way what's being
- enabled.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
- Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
- isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
- configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
- rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
- /bin).</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
- Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
- /usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
- /usr/bin.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
- Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
- missing && to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
- instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
- running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </sect1>
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