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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>autoconf-2.57</para></listitem>
  9. <listitem><para>automake-1.7.2</para></listitem>
  10. <listitem><para>binutils-2.13.2</para></listitem>
  11. <listitem><para>bison-1.75</para></listitem>
  12. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.32</para></listitem>
  13. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1-3.patch</para></listitem>
  14. <listitem><para>gcc-3.2.1</para></listitem>
  15. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1</para></listitem>
  16. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1.patch</para></listitem>
  17. <listitem><para>groff-1.18.1</para></listitem>
  18. <listitem><para>kbd-1.08</para></listitem>
  19. <listitem><para>less-378</para></listitem>
  20. <listitem><para>libtool-1.4.3</para></listitem>
  21. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.20</para></listitem>
  22. <listitem><para>make-3.80</para></listitem>
  23. <listitem><para>man-1.5k-2.patch</para></listitem>
  24. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.53</para></listitem>
  25. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.22</para></listitem>
  26. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.3</para></listitem>
  27. <listitem><para>procps-3.1.5</para></listitem>
  28. <listitem><para>psmisc-21.2</para></listitem>
  29. <listitem><para>sed-4.0.5</para></listitem>
  30. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.3</para></listitem>
  31. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11y</para></listitem>
  32. </itemizedlist>
  33. </para></listitem>
  34. <listitem><para>Added:
  35. <itemizedlist>
  36. <listitem><para>findutils-4.1-segfault.patch</para></listitem>
  37. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch</para></listitem>
  38. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.2-root-perl.patch</para></listitem>
  39. <listitem><para>kbd-1.08.patch</para></listitem>
  40. <listitem><para>man-1.5k-80cols.patch</para></listitem>
  41. <listitem><para>man-1.5k-manpath.patch</para></listitem>
  42. <listitem><para>man-1.5k-pager.patch</para></listitem>
  43. </itemizedlist>
  44. </para></listitem>
  45. <listitem><para>Removed:
  46. <itemizedlist>
  47. <listitem><para>gcc-3.2.1-nofixincludes-2.patch</para></listitem>
  48. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1.patch</para></listitem>
  49. <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-3.patch</para></listitem>
  50. <listitem><para>man-1.5k-2.patch</para></listitem>
  51. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
  52. </itemizedlist>
  53. </para></listitem>
  54. <listitem><para>January 5th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Applied Alex's
  55. patch to split the <emphasis>Install all software as an unprivileged
  56. user</emphasis> page into two pages: <emphasis>Adding the user lfs</emphasis>
  57. and <emphasis>Setting up the environment</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
  58. <listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - All packages whose
  59. configure script supports the LDFLAGS environment variable now use it
  60. rather than passing the variable down to
  61. <userinput>make</userinput>.</para></listitem>
  62. <listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Fixed the gawk
  63. patch. <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> will no longer wipe out the
  64. <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> directory. Also, renamed
  65. <filename class="directory">/usr/share/gawk</filename> to
  66. <filename class="directory">/usr/share/gawk-3.1.1</filename>.</para></listitem>
  67. <listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the glibc-2.3.1
  68. mega-patch with two separate patches (glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch and
  69. glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch).</para></listitem>
  70. <listitem><para>January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the man-1.5k
  71. mega-patch with three separate patches (man-1.5k-80cols.patch,
  72. man-1.5k-manpath.patch and man-1.5k-pager.patch).</para></listitem>
  73. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc Second Pass:
  74. Fixed typo in linuxthreads man pages installation.</para></listitem>
  75. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux Kernel: The
  76. man pages can't be installed here because it requires Perl. Moved to end of
  77. chapter 6.</para></listitem>
  78. <listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Updated the
  79. patch so man pages are formatted properly on screens with more than 80
  80. columns.</para></listitem>
  81. <listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added
  82. <emphasis>make mandocs</emphasis> to create man pages and copy them to
  83. <filename
  84. class="directory">/usr/share/man/man9</filename></para></listitem>
  85. <listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Changed
  86. the download location to http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2</para></listitem>
  87. <listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added second
  88. Glibc installation at the end of the chapter. Removed the separate
  89. linuxthreads man-pages installation and moved that to the second Glibc
  90. installation.</para></listitem>
  91. <listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  92. Glibc-2.3.1</para></listitem>
  93. <listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed
  94. nofixincludes patch and use the built-in
  95. <emphasis>install-no-fixedincludes</emphasis> make
  96. target.</para></listitem>
  97. <listitem><para>December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed
  98. <emphasis>HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN</emphasis>, added <emphasis>--with-ld and
  99. --with-as</emphasis> configure switches.</para></listitem>
  100. <listitem><para>December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to
  101. binutils-2.13.2, procps-3.1.5.</para></listitem>
  102. <listitem><para>December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05:
  103. Changed all LDFLAGS=-static to LDFLAGS="-static".</para></listitem>
  104. <listitem><para>December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Flex:
  105. Added symlink from libfl.a to libl.a.</para></listitem>
  106. <listitem><para>December 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to
  107. sed-4.0.5.</para></listitem>
  108. <listitem><para>December 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to
  109. procps-3.1.4.</para></listitem>
  110. <listitem><para>December 17th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 5 &amp; 6: Modified
  111. paragraphs about unpacking patches since they are no longer
  112. compressed.</para></listitem>
  113. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to autoconf-2.57,
  114. automake-1.7.2, binutils-2.13.1, e2fsprogs-1.32, gcc-3.2.1, libtool-1.4.3,
  115. linux-2.4.20, modutils-2.4.22, procps-3.1.3, sed-4.0.4, texinfo-4.3,
  116. util-linux-2.11y.</para></listitem>
  117. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Removed
  118. warning about --enable-kernel.</para></listitem>
  119. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Changed all
  120. links into Freshmeat.net project links, removed lfs-packages tarball. This
  121. was done because the LFS FTP achive won't contain the packages anymore,
  122. instead you have to go to the package's download sites to get
  123. them.</para></listitem>
  124. <listitem><para>December 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Renamed
  125. <emphasis>usbdevfs</emphasis> into <emphasis>usbfs</emphasis> as the kernel
  126. guys made this change to reduce confusion with
  127. <emphasis>devfs</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
  128. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sed: Added
  129. --disable-nls</para></listitem>
  130. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 03 - Creating
  131. filesystem: Added a note that <userinput>mkswap</userinput> has to be run
  132. if a new swap partition has been created.</para></listitem>
  133. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed
  134. unnecessary lines that first create a symlink, then remove it
  135. again.</para></listitem>
  136. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Updated
  137. the download URL.</para></listitem>
  138. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Removed
  139. the <emphasis>PROCESSEDEXAMPLEFILES=""</emphasis>
  140. variables.</para></listitem>
  141. <listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Added
  142. "Prerequisites" section.</para></listitem>
  143. <listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09: Added "What now?"
  144. section.</para></listitem>
  145. <listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed
  146. Appendix B.</para></listitem>
  147. <listitem><para>October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Which
  148. Platform" section.</para></listitem>
  149. <listitem><para>October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Swapped chapter03 and
  150. chapter04.</para></listitem>
  151. <listitem><para>October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Where
  152. to store the downloaded software" and "How to install the software"
  153. sections.</para></listitem>
  154. <listitem><para>October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to bison-1.75,
  155. sed-4.0. Moved m4 before bison to meet its dependency.</para></listitem>
  156. <listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Linux-2.4.19:
  157. Replaced <userinput>mkdir /usr/include/asm</userinput> and
  158. <userinput>cp</userinput> command with
  159. <userinput>cp -HR</userinput>.</para></listitem>
  160. <listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added findutils-4.1-segfault.patch
  161. to fix a segfault in locate when it encounters a very long path
  162. name.</para></listitem>
  163. <listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added libtool-1.4.2.patch to fix
  164. an incompatibility between Autoconf 2.53 and Libtool 1.4.x.</para></listitem>
  165. <listitem><para>October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to automake-1.7.1,
  166. modutils-2.4.21, man-pages-1.53, kbd-1.08, util-linux-2.11w, autoconf-2.54,
  167. e2fsprogs-1.29, groff-1.18.1, psmisc-21.2, less-378, procps-3.0.4,
  168. make-3.80, ncurses-5.3.</para></listitem>
  169. <listitem><para>October 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Uncompressed
  170. patches.</para></listitem>
  171. <listitem><para>October 13th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Added -s
  172. to CC argument to make it consistent.</para></listitem>
  173. <listitem><para>October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Switched to gcc-core and
  174. gcc-g++.</para></listitem>
  175. <listitem><para>October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Applied Bill
  176. Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.</para></listitem>
  177. </itemizedlist>
  178. <para>4.0 - October 5th, 2002</para>
  179. <itemizedlist>
  180. <listitem><para>October 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linuxthreads:
  181. Instead of <userinput>cd man</userinput> use the <emphasis>-C</emphasis>
  182. option to <userinput>make</userinput> which makes a lot more sense (and
  183. it's shorter too).</para></listitem>
  184. <listitem><para>September 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Fixed the
  185. old nofixincludes patch and reinstated it.</para></listitem>
  186. <listitem><para>September 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Correct
  187. reference to Debian to refer to the old stable release (potato) as it
  188. doesn't apply to the current one (woody). Reported by h2k1 on
  189. #lfs.</para></listitem>
  190. </itemizedlist>
  191. <para>4.0-RC1 - September 28th, 2002</para>
  192. <itemizedlist>
  193. <listitem><para>Upgraded to:
  194. <itemizedlist>
  195. <listitem><para>automake-1.6.3</para></listitem>
  196. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
  197. <listitem><para>binutils-2.13</para></listitem>
  198. <listitem><para>bison-1.35</para></listitem>
  199. <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8.1</para></listitem>
  200. <listitem><para>file-3.39</para></listitem>
  201. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1</para></listitem>
  202. <listitem><para>gcc-3.2</para></listitem>
  203. <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.5</para></listitem>
  204. <listitem><para>groff-1.18</para></listitem>
  205. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
  206. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
  207. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.19</para></listitem>
  208. <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.7</para></listitem>
  209. <listitem><para>man-1.5k</para></listitem>
  210. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.52</para></listitem>
  211. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.19</para></listitem>
  212. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
  213. <listitem><para>perl-5.8.0</para></listitem>
  214. <listitem><para>psmisc-21</para></listitem>
  215. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.2</para></listitem>
  216. <listitem><para>textutils-2.1</para></listitem>
  217. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
  218. </itemizedlist>
  219. </para></listitem>
  220. <listitem><para>Added:
  221. <itemizedlist>
  222. <listitem><para>ed-0.2.patch</para></listitem>
  223. <listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
  224. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1-2.patch</para></listitem>
  225. <listitem><para>gcc-3.2.patch</para></listitem>
  226. <listitem><para>gcc-3.2-nofixincludes.patch</para></listitem>
  227. <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5-2.patch</para></listitem>
  228. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
  229. <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-3.patch</para></listitem>
  230. <listitem><para>man-1.5k.patch</para></listitem>
  231. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2.patch</para></listitem>
  232. <listitem><para>procps-2.0.7.patch</para></listitem>
  233. <listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch</para></listitem>
  234. <listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
  235. <listitem><para>zlib-1.1.4</para></listitem>
  236. </itemizedlist>
  237. </para></listitem>
  238. <listitem><para>Removed:
  239. <itemizedlist>
  240. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4a.patch</para></listitem>
  241. <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
  242. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
  243. </itemizedlist>
  244. </para></listitem>
  245. <listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Added the
  246. nofixincludes patch to prevent that script from running in Chapter
  247. 05. It should run in Chapter 06, so we need it to be a separate
  248. patch.</para></listitem>
  249. <listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Replaced
  250. the sed construction with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  251. <listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed
  252. the <emphasis>PREFIX=/usr</emphasis> from the
  253. <userinput>make install</userinput> command because the
  254. <emphasis>PREFIX</emphasis> is already set to <emphasis>/usr</emphasis> by
  255. default.</para></listitem>
  256. <listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Removed
  257. the FHS compliance notes. They are bogus because Vim doesn't use the
  258. localstatedir at all.</para></listitem>
  259. <listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's
  260. grammatic-fixes patch. Changed "$LFS" to "LFS" when speaking of the LFS
  261. environment variable.</para></listitem>
  262. <listitem><para>September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's
  263. grammatic-related patches.</para></listitem>
  264. <listitem><para>September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Added <userinput>-</userinput>
  265. before <userinput>tar</userinput> options (for clarity).</para></listitem>
  266. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's
  267. grammatic-fixes patch.</para></listitem>
  268. <listitem><para>September 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Applied Bill
  269. Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.</para></listitem>
  270. <listitem><para>September 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Zlib:
  271. <userinput>mv</userinput> shared lib to /lib.</para></listitem>
  272. <listitem><para>September 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
  273. Removed the <userinput>--enable-threads=posix</userinput> flag since we
  274. don't build a C++ compiler in this chapter.</para></listitem>
  275. <listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Introduction:
  276. Removed paragraph about static linking since it seems misleading and is
  277. covered in better detail in <emphasis>Why Static</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
  278. <listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux:
  279. Removed <userinput>cd</userinput> command.</para></listitem>
  280. <listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses:
  281. Removed old <userinput>mv /lib/*.a /usr/lib</userinput> command
  282. explanation.</para></listitem>
  283. <listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added
  284. --libdir=/usr/lib to the configure script options. This way a proper
  285. <filename>libshadow.la</filename> is generated. Also changed the
  286. <userinput>mv</userinput> command to move all the
  287. <filename>libshadow.so*</filename> files to the <filename
  288. class="directory">/lib</filename> directory. The <filename>lib*a</filename>
  289. files are already in the <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>
  290. directory.</para></listitem>
  291. <listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Added
  292. another regex to the <userinput>sed</userinput> command that modifies the
  293. <filename>man.conf</filename> file. The added regex comments out the
  294. <emphasis>MANPATH /usr/man</emphasis> line which causes for duplicate
  295. results when using the <userinput>whatis</userinput>
  296. command</para></listitem>
  297. <listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added the
  298. <emphasis>Linux Threads Man Pages</emphasis> installation after the Perl
  299. installation.</para></listitem>
  300. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Create mtab
  301. link: Made the <userinput>ln</userinput> command an <userinput>ln
  302. -sf</userinput> so the existing <filename>/etc/mtab</filename> file, created
  303. by the <userinput>mount</userinput> command, will be removed before
  304. re-creating it as a symlink.</para></listitem>
  305. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Sh-utils: Added
  306. the sh-utils-hostname patch that suppresses the build of the hostname
  307. program. This is done because the hostname program from the net-tools
  308. package is superior over this version.</para></listitem>
  309. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Updated
  310. the Gawk patch. It also changes the <emphasis>DDEFPATH</emphasis> directory
  311. location now.</para></listitem>
  312. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Added
  313. patch that fixes a locale problem that makes <userinput>top</userinput>
  314. crash under certain locale settings.</para></listitem>
  315. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Creating a
  316. file system: Referenced alternative filesystems in BLFS.</para></listitem>
  317. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all superfluous
  318. <filename>/usr/lib/*.so</filename> symbolic links from library
  319. installations.</para></listitem>
  320. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  321. lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
  322. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure
  323. Sysvinit: Changed the sulogin line to <emphasis>once</emphasis> instead of
  324. having it respawn. This way it'll behave as expected (ie: a CTRL+D will
  325. continue instead of restart sulogin).</para></listitem>
  326. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Added the
  327. <emphasis>--enable-clocale=gnu</emphasis> option to ensure the proper
  328. locale mode is used by the C++ libraries.</para></listitem>
  329. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Grammatic
  330. changes.</para></listitem>
  331. <listitem><para>September 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's
  332. grammar changes patch.</para></listitem>
  333. <listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gzip:
  334. Added gzip-1.2.4b.patch.</para></listitem>
  335. <listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Textutils:
  336. Added re_max_failures2 for old host systems.</para></listitem>
  337. <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Bash: Removed
  338. creation of sh symlink. Creating the bash and sh symlinks: Added /bin/bash
  339. symlink, symlinked sh to bash. Gzip, Sysvinit, Util-Linux: Shortened cp
  340. command. Makedev: Removed /bin/bash creation and removal. Man: Modified sed
  341. statement to edit less call, so SGR will work.</para></listitem>
  342. <listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - About
  343. debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed
  344. statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences.</para></listitem>
  345. <listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Install all
  346. software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the
  347. compilation of symbols in static packages.</para></listitem>
  348. <listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Makedev:
  349. Put rm /bin/bash after device creation. Perl: Removed information
  350. about the old patch.</para></listitem>
  351. <listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Re-added
  352. HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN; removed --enable-__cxa-atexit which was incorrect and
  353. not needed in this chapter; added information about the
  354. patch.</para></listitem>
  355. <listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new Glibc patch and
  356. introduced a GCC patch.</para></listitem>
  357. <listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to automake-1.6.3,
  358. gcc-3.2, groff-1.18, makedev-1.7, perl-5.8.0,
  359. util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
  360. <listitem><para>August 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Appendix: Added
  361. missing URLs to patches.</para></listitem>
  362. <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06:
  363. Changed ln -sf to ln -s wherever possible.</para></listitem>
  364. <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Binutils: cp
  365. libiberty.h after install, as it is needed by certain software. Shadow:
  366. added command to remove the groups program installed by Shadow because
  367. Sh-utils installs a (better) groups program.</para></listitem>
  368. <listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Re-added
  369. sh-utils-2.0.patch.</para></listitem>
  370. <listitem><para>August 16th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move man-pages to
  371. just after the kernel headers installation.</para></listitem>
  372. <listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move the MAKEDEV
  373. installation to before glibc and remove the temporary creation of
  374. <filename>/dev/null</filename> as we don't need it
  375. anymore.</para></listitem>
  376. <listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Preparing a new
  377. partition: mentioned that a swap partition can be shared between the LFS
  378. and host systems, grammatic changes.</para></listitem>
  379. <listitem><para>August 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed the
  380. <emphasis>--with-curses</emphasis> switch from the Bash installation as
  381. it's unnecessary here.</para></listitem>
  382. <listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to modutils-2.4.19,
  383. linux-2.4.19, gettext-0.11.5, binutils-2.13, textutils-2.1.</para></listitem>
  384. <listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Vim: changed
  385. alternative editors link from hints to BLFS.</para></listitem>
  386. <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: removed
  387. the <emphasis>--disable-termcap</emphasis> configure option. Termcap is
  388. disabled by default now, so no need for this option (left over from a long
  389. time ago when it was needed).</para></listitem>
  390. <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added the
  391. command <userinput>cp include/asm-generic /usr/include</userinput>. There
  392. are programs which use the files in there, as well as headers in the
  393. <filename class="directory">asm</filename> directory may be split up in the
  394. future, and put in the
  395. <filename class="directory">asm-generic</filename>.</para></listitem>
  396. <listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: added the
  397. missing program description of msgcat.</para></listitem>
  398. <listitem><para>August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4.</para></listitem>
  399. <listitem><para>August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52,
  400. man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils-2.4.18.</para></listitem>
  401. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs.
  402. Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39.</para></listitem>
  403. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 &amp; 05 - Creating
  404. a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils,
  405. Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead
  406. of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to
  407. auto-host.h.</para></listitem>
  408. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: added
  409. --disable-profile flag.</para></listitem>
  410. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux:
  411. added information about modules and kernel documentation.</para></listitem>
  412. <listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
  413. system: added a command to remove the static directory.</para></listitem>
  414. <listitem><para>July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
  415. system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step.</para></listitem>
  416. <listitem><para>July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Sysvinit: Simplified
  417. the sed command and updated the installation description because init now
  418. prints "Sending processes" instead of "Sending all processes".</para></listitem>
  419. <listitem><para>July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change - Made all
  420. patches use a &amp;package-patch-version; entity and removed all
  421. hardcoding of patch versions.</para></listitem>
  422. <listitem><para>June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and
  423. automake-1.6.2</para></listitem>
  424. <listitem><para>June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow, Util-linux,
  425. LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  426. <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Net-tools,
  427. Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison,
  428. Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps,
  429. Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  430. <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - M4,
  431. Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added "last checked against" for uniformity.
  432. GCC: Removed i686-specific programs.</para></listitem>
  433. <listitem><para>June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gettext:
  434. Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  435. <listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Binutils,
  436. Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description
  437. of c++filt.</para></listitem>
  438. <listitem><para>June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - The End:
  439. Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-&version; to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version
  440. number inside this file.</para></listitem>
  441. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
  442. Modified the build instructions and command explanations to
  443. only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed
  444. until after the second GCC build.</para></listitem>
  445. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: grammatic
  446. changes.</para></listitem>
  447. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Gawk:
  448. Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils:
  449. Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC:
  450. Updated the package contents.</para></listitem>
  451. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the
  452. estimated required disk space.</para></listitem>
  453. <listitem><para>June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Creating
  454. Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p
  455. option to mkdir which will create the usr directory
  456. anyways.</para></listitem>
  457. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Reiserfsprogs:
  458. added a description for unpack.</para></listitem>
  459. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 - How to ask for
  460. help: mentioned the FAQ.</para></listitem>
  461. <listitem><para>June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up
  462. explanations following the /static change.</para></listitem>
  463. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface - Who would not want to
  464. read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar
  465. patch.</para></listitem>
  466. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors.
  467. Chapter 06 - Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 - Gawk: to avoid confusion,
  468. mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06.</para></listitem>
  469. <listitem><para>June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited
  470. to include reporting typos.</para></listitem>
  471. <listitem><para>May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the
  472. CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1
  473. systems.</para></listitem>
  474. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Update to
  475. binutils-2.12.1.</para></listitem>
  476. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed
  477. section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer
  478. have the commands referred to there.</para></listitem>
  479. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the
  480. various sed fixes with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  481. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the
  482. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  483. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced
  484. the sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  485. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the
  486. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  487. <listitem><para>May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership:
  488. removed the explicit command to chown <filename
  489. class="directory">/lost+found</filename>. This is done by the first command
  490. now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  491. <listitem><para>May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  492. ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used
  493. one).</para></listitem>
  494. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1,
  495. bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2,
  496. modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix
  497. patches for ncurses, perl and vim.</para></listitem>
  498. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed
  499. the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to
  500. chapter 06-binutils.</para></listitem>
  501. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk &amp; Findutils:
  502. simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We
  503. can live with a
  504. <filename class="directory">$LFS/static/libexecdir</filename> being created.
  505. The whole <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory is
  506. temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks
  507. like.</para></listitem>
  508. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories:
  509. removed the <userinput>cd /</userinput> command and changed the two
  510. <userinput>chmod</userinput> commands to use absolute paths
  511. instead.</para></listitem>
  512. <listitem><para>May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor
  513. corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't
  514. wanted.</para></listitem>
  515. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the
  516. keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added
  517. findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5
  518. into <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> and re-ordered the
  519. installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path
  520. (files from <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename>).</para></listitem>
  521. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  522. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  523. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some
  524. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  525. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some
  526. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  527. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  528. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  529. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  530. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  531. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  532. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  533. <listitem><para>May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown
  534. X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info
  535. chown).</para></listitem>
  536. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added
  537. http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net</para></listitem>
  538. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  539. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  540. <listitem><para>May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the
  541. instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter
  542. 05 gzip instructions.</para></listitem>
  543. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML
  544. fixups; mainly altering &lt;ulink&gt; tags to remove erroneous &amp;#13;
  545. in the HTML output.</para></listitem>
  546. <listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the
  547. missing descriptions.</para></listitem>
  548. <listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the
  549. symlink location of <filename class="symlink">vigr</filename> to
  550. <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename></para></listitem>
  551. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the
  552. two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be
  553. mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).</para></listitem>
  554. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the
  555. <userinput>cd dir &amp;&amp; ln -sf</userinput> commands to one single command
  556. (such as <userinput>ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh</userinput> Same goes for
  557. <userinput>cd dir &amp;&amp; mv/cp</userinput> constructions which are now replaced
  558. with constructions like
  559. <userinput>mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin</userinput></para></listitem>
  560. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS
  561. library files" section.</para></listitem>
  562. <listitem><para>May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds -
  563. gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the
  564. <userinput>export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR</userinput> constructions and
  565. changed them to <userinput>VAR=VALUE ./configure</userinput>
  566. constructions.</para></listitem>
  567. <listitem><para>April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added
  568. libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in
  569. updatedb.</para></listitem>
  570. <listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
  571. that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
  572. then you first need to create the
  573. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
  574. <listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard &amp; markh]: Upgraded to
  575. MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
  576. <listitem><para>April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to
  577. cvs and split up index.xml.</para></listitem>
  578. <listitem><para>April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following
  579. packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q
  580. </para></listitem>
  581. <listitem><para>April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp
  582. to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static
  583. pcre library.</para></listitem>
  584. <listitem><para>April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the
  585. http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement
  586. ftp://ftp.de).</para></listitem>
  587. </itemizedlist>
  588. </sect1>