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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:</para>
  7. <itemizedlist>
  8. <listitem><para>automake-1.7.6</para></listitem>
  9. <listitem><para>bash-2.05b</para></listitem>
  10. <listitem><para>binutils-2.14</para></listitem>
  11. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.34</para></listitem>
  12. <listitem><para>file-4.04</para></listitem>
  13. <listitem><para>findutils-4.1.20</para></listitem>
  14. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.3</para></listitem>
  15. <listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1</para></listitem>
  16. <listitem><para>gettext-0.12.1</para></listitem>
  17. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.2</para></listitem>
  18. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.2-sscanf-1.patch</para></listitem>
  19. <listitem><para>grep-2.5.1</para></listitem>
  20. <listitem><para>groff-1.19</para></listitem>
  21. <listitem><para>gzip-1.3.5</para></listitem>
  22. <listitem><para>less-381</para></listitem>
  23. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.12</para></listitem>
  24. <listitem><para>libtool-1.5</para></listitem>
  25. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.22</para></listitem>
  26. <listitem><para>man-1.5m2</para></listitem>
  27. <listitem><para>man-1.5m2-80cols.patch</para></listitem>
  28. <listitem><para>man-1.5m2-manpath.patch</para></listitem>
  29. <listitem><para>man-1.5m2-pager.patch</para></listitem>
  30. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.60</para></listitem>
  31. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.25</para></listitem>
  32. <listitem><para>procps-3.1.11</para></listitem>
  33. <listitem><para>procps-3.1.11.patch</para></listitem>
  34. <listitem><para>psmisc-21.3</para></listitem>
  35. <listitem><para>sed-4.0.7</para></listitem>
  36. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.85</para></listitem>
  37. <listitem><para>tar-1.13.25</para></listitem>
  38. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.6</para></listitem>
  39. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.12</para></listitem>
  40. <listitem><para>vim-6.2</para></listitem>
  41. </itemizedlist>
  42. </listitem>
  43. <listitem><para>Added:</para>
  44. <itemizedlist>
  45. <listitem><para>bash-2.05b-2.patch</para></listitem>
  46. <listitem><para>bison-1.875-attribute.patch</para></listitem>
  47. <listitem><para>coreutils-5.0</para></listitem>
  48. <listitem><para>coreutils-5.0-uname.patch</para></listitem>
  49. <listitem><para>coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch</para></listitem>
  50. <listitem><para>dejagnu-1.4.3</para></listitem>
  51. <listitem><para>expect-5.39.0</para></listitem>
  52. <listitem><para>expect-5.39.0.patch</para></listitem>
  53. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.3.patch</para></listitem>
  54. <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
  55. <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3-2.patch</para></listitem>
  56. <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3-no-fixinc.patch</para></listitem>
  57. <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch</para></listitem>
  58. <listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1-no_fixincludes-2.patch</para></listitem>
  59. <listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1-specs-2.patch</para></listitem>
  60. <listitem><para>gcc-3.3.1-suppress-libiberty.patch</para></listitem>
  61. <listitem><para>grub-0.93</para></listitem>
  62. <listitem><para>grub-0.93-gcc33-1.patch</para></listitem>
  63. <listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2</para></listitem>
  64. <listitem><para>lfs-utils-0.3</para></listitem>
  65. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch</para></listitem>
  66. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch</para></listitem>
  67. <listitem><para>perl-5.8.0-libc-3.patch</para></listitem>
  68. <listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3-newgroup-fix.patch</para></listitem>
  69. <listitem><para>tcl-8.4.4</para></listitem>
  70. <listitem><para>zlib-1.1.4-vsnprintf.patch</para></listitem>
  71. </itemizedlist>
  72. </listitem>
  73. <listitem><para>Removed:</para>
  74. <itemizedlist>
  75. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
  76. <listitem><para>fileutils-4.1</para></listitem>
  77. <listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
  78. <listitem><para>findutils-4.1-segfault.patch</para></listitem>
  79. <listitem><para>findutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
  80. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch</para></listitem>
  81. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch</para></listitem>
  82. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
  83. <listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
  84. <listitem><para>netkit-base-0.17</para></listitem>
  85. <listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0</para></listitem>
  86. <listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0.patch</para></listitem>
  87. <listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch</para></listitem>
  88. <listitem><para>tar-1.13.patch</para></listitem>
  89. <listitem><para>textutils-2.1</para></listitem>
  90. <listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
  91. </itemizedlist>
  92. </listitem>
  93. <listitem><para>October 23rd, 2003 [gerard] Chapter 9 - The End: Changed
  94. the <filename>/etc/lfs</filename> filename to
  95. <filename>/etc/lfs-release</filename> to be more consistent with other
  96. distributions out there.</para></listitem>
  97. <listitem><para>October 23rd, 2003 [alex]: Changed most of the "Chapter"
  98. references to proper "xref" cross references .</para></listitem>
  99. <listitem><para>October 22nd, 2003 [gerard] Chapter 2: Added notes how to
  100. create installation dependency lists.</para></listitem>
  101. <listitem><para>October 22nd, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Gawk and Shadow:
  102. Adjusted the text. And added some markup elsewhere.</para></listitem>
  103. <listitem><para>October 22nd, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Entering the chroot
  104. environment: Dropped the <userinput>set +h</userinput> command, as it is
  105. pointless there: it's redone several sections later.</para></listitem>
  106. <listitem><para>October 15th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 9: Reworked final strip
  107. command. Relocated paragraphs about directory removal from Chapter
  108. 6.</para></listitem>
  109. <listitem><para>October 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Making the LFS system
  110. bootable: Expanded Grub details and added a warning.</para></listitem>
  111. <listitem><para>October 14th, 2003 [alex]: Appendix A - Updated the contents
  112. of Perl and Procps.</para></listitem>
  113. <listitem><para>October 14th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 4 and 5 - Added a suggestion
  114. to use $LFS/sources as the working and storage place.</para></listitem>
  115. <listitem><para>October 13th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 9 - Rebooting the system:
  116. Reworked umount commands.</para></listitem>
  117. <listitem><para>October 11th, 2003 [alex]: Adapted the required disk space
  118. values and SBUs, as posted by Bruce Dubbs.</para></listitem>
  119. <listitem><para>October 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 5 - Toolchain technical
  120. notes: Added and changed some markup.</para></listitem>
  121. <listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  122. lfs-bootscripts-1.12.</para></listitem>
  123. <listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [greg]: Performed internal markup reworking to
  124. fix an extraneous whitespace problem in "tidy generated" web site pages.
  125. Essentially replace all occurrences of &lt;para&gt;&lt;screen&gt; with
  126. &lt;screen&gt; (and the matching closing tags).</para></listitem>
  127. <listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Basic Networking: Moved
  128. one half to the Lfs-Utils section, the other half to Perl.</para></listitem>
  129. <listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 8 - Making bootable: Adapted
  130. the style of the screens, and reworded some paragraphs.</para></listitem>
  131. <listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Removed a series of unused
  132. entities.</para></listitem>
  133. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added notes to the linking tests
  134. in chapter 5 and 6 stating that blank output is a bad thing.</para></listitem>
  135. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [alex]: Changed the patch entities to contain
  136. the full filename instead of just the version number.</para></listitem>
  137. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 1 - Added a note regarding
  138. #LFS-support on IRC.</para></listitem>
  139. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [greg]: Preface: Add note about the Essential
  140. Pre-Reading Hint. Closes Bug 585.</para></listitem>
  141. <listitem><para>October 6th, 2003 [alex]: Changed the style of the Contents
  142. subsections in Chapters 5 and 6 and Appendix A.</para></listitem>
  143. <listitem><para>October 6th, 2003 [greg]: Simplified seds in "Locking in Glibc"
  144. and "Re-adjusting the toolchain" sections. Rearranged "How things are going to
  145. be done" section.</para></listitem>
  146. <listitem><para>October 5th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5: Added new section
  147. "Toolchain technical notes". Integrated and scaled back the old "Why we use
  148. static linking" section. Closes Bug 658.</para></listitem>
  149. <listitem><para>October 4th, 2003 [alex]: Minor rewordings and additions of
  150. markup here and there.</para></listitem>
  151. <listitem><para>October 4th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Binutils Pass 1: Added
  152. extra LDFLAGS to ensure static rebuild of ld.</para></listitem>
  153. <listitem><para>October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6: Reinstated
  154. INSTALL=/tools/bin/install for linker adjustment command due to issues on hosts
  155. where a ginstall symlink exists. This renders the "install" symlinks redundant,
  156. so removed those too.</para></listitem>
  157. <listitem><para>October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Enabled
  158. MD5 passwords. Closes Bug 600.</para></listitem>
  159. <listitem><para>September 27th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Expect: Tweaked
  160. install so that redundant scripts are not installed. Chapter 6 - Creating
  161. essential symlinks: Removed redundant links. Chapter 6 - man: Removed PATH,
  162. closes Bug 574.</para></listitem>
  163. <listitem><para>September 27th, 2003 [greg]: Added Tcl, Expect and DejaGnu
  164. items to Appendix A. Closes Bug 661.</para></listitem>
  165. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added new workaround for the
  166. devpts problems.</para></listitem>
  167. <listitem><para>September 24th, 2003 [greg]: Various changes across the board
  168. addressing Bug 675.</para></listitem>
  169. <listitem><para>September 24th, 2003 [alex]: Appendix A - Changed the style of
  170. the short descriptions, and the content of most of them too.</para></listitem>
  171. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Creating the /etc/fstab
  172. file: Made mounting devpts the default.</para></listitem>
  173. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Net-tools patch to fix
  174. mii-tool compilation.</para></listitem>
  175. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Updated the Why
  176. Static page to more accurately represent the difference between statically and
  177. dynamically linked binaries. Thanks to Ian Molton for pointing this out. Fixes
  178. Bug 602.</para></listitem>
  179. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed the make
  180. command from DejaGnu, since it performs nothing.</para></listitem>
  181. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed the -k from Tcl's make
  182. check, since it's not expected to have failures anymore</para></listitem>
  183. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Changed the reference to the
  184. man hint to a pointer to BLFS.</para></listitem>
  185. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Added a note to remember to
  186. mount devpts if you exit and re-enter chroot.</para></listitem>
  187. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed make check from Patch
  188. and Diffutils, since these tests perform no actions.</para></listitem>
  189. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Setting up the
  190. environment: Added unset CC CXX CPP LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD to
  191. .bash_profile to stop accidental build breakage.</para></listitem>
  192. <listitem><para>September 20th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Updated
  193. to gcc-3.3.1-specs-2.patch. Ncurses: added --enable-overwrite and description.
  194. </para></listitem>
  195. <listitem><para>September 19th, 2003 [jeremy]: Corrected bash tags for proper
  196. use of the +h flag to bash.</para></listitem>
  197. <listitem><para>September 19th, 2003 [jwrober]: Various updates to the
  198. acknowledgments page.</para></listitem>
  199. <listitem><para>September 18th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Added
  200. some extra comments regarding the 3 tarballs to unpack.</para></listitem>
  201. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
  202. rationale notes.</para></listitem>
  203. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgments
  204. page to match the website.</para></listitem>
  205. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Upgraded File to 4.04.</para></listitem>
  206. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Changed 2 of the
  207. occurrences of exec bash --login to include the +h directive. </para></listitem>
  208. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in
  209. Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Do "make -C ld install" instead of "make
  210. -C ld install-data-local" to install a whole new linker instead of just the
  211. new ldscripts.</para></listitem>
  212. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Normalized the spelling of 'Tcl'
  213. and 'DejaGnu', following their own documentation.</para></listitem>
  214. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Properly alphabetized the
  215. dependencies.</para></listitem>
  216. <listitem><para>September 16th, 2003 [alex]: Finally updated the dependencies
  217. for the new Coreutils.</para></listitem>
  218. <listitem><para>September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in
  219. Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Added sanity checks.</para></listitem>
  220. <listitem><para>September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Binutils, GCC,
  221. and Glibc: Added notes on the test suites.</para></listitem>
  222. <listitem><para>September 15th, 2003 [alex]: Corrected several typos and
  223. some inconsistencies.</para></listitem>
  224. <listitem><para>September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Revised chroot
  225. command: Removed no longer needed set +h.</para></listitem>
  226. <listitem><para>September 14th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed some typos, and added some
  227. markup. Dropped the removal of program files from the Stripping section in
  228. Chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  229. <listitem><para>September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Create essential
  230. symlinks: Add symlink /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to allow GCC abi_check to run.
  231. Future NPTL needs this as well.</para></listitem>
  232. <listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Added PLFS hint text to the
  233. page in Chapter 6 for creating passwd and group: bug 596.</para></listitem>
  234. <listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the "How things are
  235. going to be done" page to include more of the PLFS hint's
  236. text.</para></listitem>
  237. <listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Preface - Merged whoread and
  238. whonotread into a single audience page.</para></listitem>
  239. <listitem><para>September 13th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 2 - Added new section
  240. about the test suites.</para></listitem>
  241. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Ncurses: Added
  242. description for the --without-ada configure switch.</para></listitem>
  243. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Gawk: Added the
  244. test suite</para></listitem>
  245. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Grep: Added
  246. descriptions of configure switches courtesy of Anderson Lizardo</para></listitem>
  247. <listitem><para>September 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed /usr/lib/locale
  248. directory creation - it's created during Chapter 6 - Glibc where it's more
  249. relevant.</para></listitem>
  250. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Fixed GCC Pass 2
  251. specs patch text to be more vague, but in actuality more accurate - provided by
  252. Anderson Lizardo.</para></listitem>
  253. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Grammar fix in
  254. Tcl install directions provided by Anderson Lizardo.</para></listitem>
  255. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Small textual
  256. change in the locking in Glibc page for /lib/ld.so.1 provided by Anderson
  257. Lizardo.</para></listitem>
  258. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added bootloader setup to
  259. Chapter 8, after the addition of Grub to the book.</para></listitem>
  260. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Bin86 and LILO and
  261. replaced it with Grub.</para></listitem>
  262. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Dropped non-toolchain tests
  263. to optional actions. Added a note to use the Wiki for failed tests.</para></listitem>
  264. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Bison patch, backported
  265. from CVS, to fix pwlib compilation problems</para></listitem>
  266. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Greg's patch to GCC to
  267. suppress the installation of libiberty, and changed Binutils to allow its
  268. libiberty to stay.</para></listitem>
  269. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added caution tags around the
  270. reminder to not delete the Binutils source and build directories in Chapter 5.
  271. </para></listitem>
  272. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added new perl-libc-3 patch
  273. from Anderson Lizardo</para></listitem>
  274. <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jwrober]: Fixed the Findutils package
  275. download link on the packages page closing bug 578.</para></listitem>
  276. <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC 2.95.3:
  277. Removed compilation of C++, added Zack's return-type patch.</para></listitem>
  278. <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Coreutils:
  279. Added coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch, which suppresses the build of the
  280. hostname binary, and also suppresses its check.</para></listitem>
  281. <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added some notes regarding failed
  282. tests to Glibc and DejaGnu.</para></listitem>
  283. <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Glibc - Added commands to both
  284. Chapter 5 and 6 to include minimum locales necessary for
  285. checks.</para></listitem>
  286. <listitem><para>September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed Zlib's
  287. munging of CFLAGS in favor of a note to add -fPIC.</para></listitem>
  288. <listitem><para>September 8th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 5 - Fixed the rm command
  289. that deletes unneeded documentation from /tools/share.</para></listitem>
  290. <listitem><para>September 6th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Removed a reference
  291. to "the static" directory in the intro.</para></listitem>
  292. <listitem><para>September 6th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Updated
  293. download locations for some packages.</para></listitem>
  294. <listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2:
  295. Corrected the make check error explanation</para></listitem>
  296. <listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Makedev:
  297. Changed the default device creation to generic-nopty, because we now use devpts
  298. by default.</para></listitem>
  299. <listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC: Corrected
  300. wording to reflect the removal of the /usr/lib/cpp symlink.</para></listitem>
  301. <listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Corrected perl libc patch to -2,
  302. changing the old /stage1 structure to /tools</para></listitem>
  303. <listitem><para>September 5th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated GCC specs patch
  304. and upgraded to man-1.5m2</para></listitem>
  305. <listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Creating
  306. Directories: Eliminated the creation of /usr/tmp - Closes bug 176.</para></listitem>
  307. <listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc:
  308. Added mounting the devpts filesystem into chroot here. Closes bug 533.</para>
  309. </listitem>
  310. <listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc:
  311. Added a warning at the end regarding checking that proc is still mounted
  312. if you stop and restart the lfs process.</para></listitem>
  313. <listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Gzip:
  314. Altered text to better explain the reason behind the sed command
  315. used in the gzip installation. Closes bug 551.</para></listitem>
  316. <listitem><para>September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Downloading
  317. patches: Added a note regarding Tushar's patches project, and a link
  318. to the patches home page.</para></listitem>
  319. <listitem><para>September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Fixed issue with Util-linux not
  320. utilizing headers and libraries installed in /stage1.</para></listitem>
  321. <listitem><para>September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Removed "rm /bin/pwd" instruction
  322. from Chapter 6 kernel-headers installation as the link is still required by
  323. Glibc's installation.</para></listitem>
  324. <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Adjusted all the SBUs from the
  325. values posted by Jeremy.</para></listitem>
  326. <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Finally got around to renaming
  327. /stage1 to /tools.</para></listitem>
  328. <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Merged several of the main
  329. book structure files.</para></listitem>
  330. <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Alphabetized download lists,
  331. added note to Tcl instructions.</para></listitem>
  332. <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Reworded Organization, $LFS
  333. and SBUs sections.</para></listitem>
  334. <listitem><para>September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 -
  335. Groff - Added note about choice of A4 or letter for the
  336. PAGE variable.</para></listitem>
  337. <listitem><para>September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in shadow
  338. newgrp patch from Greg Schafer</para></listitem>
  339. <listitem><para>August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 -
  340. Inetutils - added the --disable-whois and --disable-servers
  341. flags</para></listitem>
  342. <listitem><para>August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in Greg's new instructions
  343. for GCC 3.3.1 with respect to the fixincludes process. Also added extra
  344. verbiage to the locking-in and GCC pass 2 pages on the fixincludes
  345. process.</para></listitem>
  346. <listitem><para>August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Reworded some paragraphs, added
  347. missing markup, and rearranged the changelog.</para></listitem>
  348. <listitem><para>August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Wrapped the 'Last checked' lines
  349. in parentheses. Several other small retouches.</para></listitem>
  350. <listitem><para>August 30, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated fix-includes
  351. patch to GCC 3.3.1</para></listitem>
  352. <listitem><para>August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Glibc - updated
  353. instructions with the sscanf patch from patches.</para></listitem>
  354. <listitem><para>August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated GCC
  355. to version 3.3.1, including fixes based on Zack's mini-hint
  356. for GCC 3.3, and patches from his docs.</para></listitem>
  357. <listitem><para>August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Removed obsolete Netkit-base,
  358. Fileutils, Sh-utils, and Textutils files.</para></listitem>
  359. <listitem><para>August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Added some missing markup, changed
  360. a few /static's to /stage1's.</para></listitem>
  361. <listitem><para>August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Added all the missing
  362. text lines before the make checks, and reworded other lines.</para></listitem>
  363. <listitem><para>August 28, 2003 [matt] - Updated packages
  364. to linux-2.4.22, man-pages-1.60, expect-5.39.0,
  365. findutils-4.1.20 and tcl-8.4.4</para></listitem>
  366. <listitem><para>August 28, 2003 [jeremy] - New
  367. bash-2.05b-2.patch file to include the 7 patches
  368. from ftp.gnu.org</para></listitem>
  369. <listitem><para>August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Re-adjusting toolchain:
  370. Added a forgotten backslash.</para></listitem>
  371. <listitem><para>August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed a few typos and added some
  372. missing markup.</para></listitem>
  373. <listitem><para>August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Binutils and GCC:
  374. Integrated text from the pure-lfs hint.</para></listitem>
  375. <listitem><para>August 27, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 -
  376. Inetutils: Added --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
  377. and moved the ping binary from /usr/bin to /bin</para>
  378. </listitem>
  379. <listitem><para>August 27th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Integrated text
  380. from the pure-lfs hint.</para></listitem>
  381. <listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 07 -
  382. Creating /etc/hosts: Changed www.mydomain.org to
  383. &lt;value of HOSTNAME&gt;.mydomain.org</para></listitem>
  384. <listitem><para>August 26th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 &amp; 08 - Moved the
  385. installation of the kernel manpages from chapter 6 to 8.</para></listitem>
  386. <listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 04 -
  387. Mounting the LFS partition: Added text regarding mounting
  388. with too restrictive permissions.</para></listitem>
  389. <listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 -
  390. Creating Directories: Added the creation of the /dev/shm
  391. directory.</para></listitem>
  392. <listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 -
  393. Creating fstab: Added the mount of tmpfs filesystem to
  394. /dev/shm.</para></listitem>
  395. <listitem><para>August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 -
  396. Kernel Installation: Added a reminder to compile tmpfs
  397. support into the kernel.</para></listitem>
  398. <listitem><para>August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Rewrote the installation
  399. text of Shadow and Util-Linux while correcting some typos.</para></listitem>
  400. <listitem><para>August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Made the
  401. "Locking in" and "Re-adjusting" look similar.</para></listitem>
  402. <listitem><para>August 24th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Merged the many little
  403. files into one file. Gave packages and patches a separate page.</para></listitem>
  404. <listitem><para>August 17th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Bash to Perl:
  405. put text in between commands. Added a section on stripping unneeded
  406. symbols to decrease the size of the tools.</para></listitem>
  407. <listitem><para>August 16th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Make to Texinfo:
  408. put text in between commands.</para></listitem>
  409. <listitem><para>August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Binutils Pass 1 to
  410. Findutils: several small textual adjustments. For the second passes not giving
  411. the contents and dependencies.</para></listitem>
  412. <listitem><para>August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Listed separate
  413. core, g++, and test suite tarballs for GCC.</para></listitem>
  414. <listitem><para>August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Suppressed the
  415. mention of a wget script.</para></listitem>
  416. <listitem><para>August 9th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2 and GCC
  417. Pass 2: integrated some text from the pure-lfs hint.</para></listitem>
  418. <listitem><para>August 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Tcl, Expect, and DejaGnu:
  419. added some text.</para></listitem>
  420. <listitem><para>August 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Applied Alex Groenewoud's patch
  421. that adds Appendix B, providing a list of all installed programs and
  422. libraries plus references to the installation pages.</para></listitem>
  423. <listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Changed the way
  424. the global <filename>vimrc</filename> and <filename>gvimrc</filename>
  425. locations are defined.</para></listitem>
  426. <listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2:
  427. removed the lib patch, it's no longer needed with the binutils-2.14
  428. upgrade.</para></listitem>
  429. <listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 Binutils Pass1: Added
  430. <userinput>make configure-host</userinput>.</para></listitem>
  431. <listitem><para>July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to binutils-2.14,
  432. linux-2.4.21, expect-5.38.4, gawk-3.1.3, texinfo-4.6, util-linux-2.12,
  433. man-pages-1.58, lfs-utils-0.3, vim-6.2, gettext-0.12.1, automake-1.7.6,
  434. file-4.03, e2fsprogs-1.34, procps-3.1.11, psmisc-21.3</para></listitem>
  435. <listitem><para>June 3rd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: removed the
  436. removal of <filename>/bin/awk</filename>. This symlink isn't created
  437. anymore.</para></listitem>
  438. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
  439. /opt/gcc-2.95.3/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file so the libraries can be
  440. found during run-time.</para></listitem>
  441. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Simplified
  442. commands.</para></listitem>
  443. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Simplified
  444. commands.</para></listitem>
  445. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added the
  446. <userinput>grpconv</userinput> command to complement the enabling of all
  447. shadowed passwords.</para></listitem>
  448. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating Files: All
  449. those <userinput>ln</userinput> commands can be made into a few long ln
  450. commands.</para></listitem>
  451. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing
  452. Glibc: Create an ld.so.conf file before building Glibc, to prevent an
  453. (harmless) error.</para></listitem>
  454. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc:
  455. Don't bother doing the 'exec /stage1/bin/bash' stuff, it doesn't do anything
  456. now that we use PLFS.</para></listitem>
  457. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Installing
  458. Coreutils: Only test the non-root stuff in Chapter 05, but test everything
  459. in Chapter 06.</para></listitem>
  460. <listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Expect:
  461. Don't bother passing anything more than --prefix=/stage1. None of it is
  462. needed.</para></listitem>
  463. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Net-tools: Changed
  464. <userinput>make install</userinput> to <userinput>make
  465. update</userinput>.</para></listitem>
  466. <listitem><para>May 15th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05: Installing Patch:
  467. Added <userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE</userinput> before
  468. <userinput>./configure</userinput> to fix patch build on PPC.</para></listitem>
  469. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: When we
  470. <userinput>exec /path/to/bash --login</userinput>, also run <userinput>set
  471. +h</userinput> to keep the hashing option turned off. Fixes bug
  472. #531</para></listitem>
  473. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network:
  474. Changed the single quotes to double quotes in the echo command. Without it,
  475. $(hostname) won't expand which defeats the sole purpose of this command -
  476. to make Perl's hostname check work.</para></listitem>
  477. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed all occurrences &amp;&amp;.
  478. Updated bug syntax. Added "make check/test" where necessary in Chapter
  479. 6.</para></listitem>
  480. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Changing
  481. ownership" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #511.</para></listitem>
  482. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Configuring
  483. system components" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #510.</para></listitem>
  484. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed Tcl, Expect
  485. and DejaGnu. Nothing uses this once past GCC in chapter 6. The versions
  486. in /stage1/bin do the job just fine.</para></listitem>
  487. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Shadow:
  488. Touching the /usr/bin/passwd file before installation. Not doing so results in
  489. Shadow thinking passwd will be in /bin/passwd.</para></listitem>
  490. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps:
  491. Remove the /lib/libproc.so symlink. No package outside of Procps itself
  492. uses this library, and none should.</para></listitem>
  493. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools:
  494. Run "make config" before doing make. Fixes bugs #462 and
  495. #497.</para></listitem>
  496. <listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: Added the
  497. vsscanf patch.</para></listitem>
  498. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Removed
  499. <userinput>make check</userinput>. It doesn't do
  500. anything.</para></listitem>
  501. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Texinfo:
  502. Don't install the texmf data. It's not used by anything.</para></listitem>
  503. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Installing
  504. Ncurses: In Chapter 6, symlink creation has been updated to include
  505. libcurses.*, and libncurses++.a has its properties changed to 644.
  506. Chapter 5 doesn't need any libcurses.* so those are removed.</para></listitem>
  507. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network: Added
  508. $(hostname) to /etc/hosts, without it Perl's hostname test doesn't
  509. pass.</para></listitem>
  510. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC:
  511. Don't try to remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It isn't installed in the
  512. first place.</para></listitem>
  513. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to findutils-4.1.7,
  514. gzip-1.3.5, and tar-1.13.25.</para></listitem>
  515. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Perl:
  516. Added extra commands to build certain modules into Perl. This is to accommodate
  517. the Coreutils "make check". Partially fixes bug #528.</para></listitem>
  518. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Gzip:
  519. Nothing in Chapter 6 checks for or uses the uncompress command,
  520. therefore we shouldn't create it.</para></listitem>
  521. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Bzip2:
  522. Running "make" implies "make check", therefore there is no reason
  523. whatsoever for us to run it manually.</para></listitem>
  524. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing
  525. Lfs-Utils: Removed. The only package that checks for mktemp before it is
  526. installed is GCC, and that's only for gccbug.</para></listitem>
  527. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
  528. --enable-threads=posix as well to complete the C++ addition.</para></listitem>
  529. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
  530. --enable-languages=c,c++ to fix that GCC's version bug with regards to
  531. -Wreturn-type. Fixes bug #525</para></listitem>
  532. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed the
  533. --without-bash-malloc configure option.</para></listitem>
  534. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Updated to
  535. gcc-3.2.3-specs-4.patch.</para></listitem>
  536. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Setting up Basic
  537. Networking: Added section. Create a basic /etc/hosts files, and create
  538. /etc/services and /etc/protocols from IANA. Fixes bugs #359 &amp;
  539. #515.</para></listitem>
  540. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgrading to lfs-utils-0.2.2.
  541. This adds two files needed for proper networking configuration.</para></listitem>
  542. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed Netkit-base 0.17. Added
  543. Inetutils 1.4.2. Fixes bug #490.</para></listitem>
  544. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Added lfs-utils-0.2.1. Fixes bug
  545. #493.</para></listitem>
  546. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses:
  547. Fix up the symlinks so that they follow suit of other library symlinks.
  548. No more weirdness here.</para></listitem>
  549. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps:
  550. Removed XSCPT="" cruft and its corresponding paragraph. This stuff
  551. isn't needed anymore.</para></listitem>
  552. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses:
  553. Pass --without-debug to the configure script. It seems to have gotten
  554. lost at some point.</para></listitem>
  555. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 5 &amp; 6 - Installing
  556. Bzip2, Installing Zlib: Modified build commands per bug #524.</para></listitem>
  557. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc:
  558. Install the linuxthreads man pages, too. This got lost somewhere.</para></listitem>
  559. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Grep:
  560. Added --with-included-regex to prevent Grep from using Glibc's somewhat
  561. bugged regex.</para></listitem>
  562. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Coreutils:
  563. Fix some functionality of the uname command with a patch.</para></listitem>
  564. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools:
  565. Just do regular old "make install" instead of "make update". The latter
  566. works fine now.</para></listitem>
  567. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC:
  568. After installation, remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It is not used
  569. outside of the GCC build tree.</para></listitem>
  570. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to Bash 2.05b and
  571. added its patch.</para></listitem>
  572. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Zlib:
  573. Apply a patch to fix the buffer overflow in gzprintf().</para></listitem>
  574. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Configuring system
  575. components: Moved the creation of the btmp, wtmp, lastlog and utmp to
  576. just before Shadow, so that they are detected at their proper locations.</para></listitem>
  577. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Automake:
  578. Run "make" before installing. This is needed now with the newer releases
  579. of Automake.</para></listitem>
  580. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Vim:
  581. Removed the patch. It hasn't been required since GCC 3.2.1.</para></listitem>
  582. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating the mtab
  583. file: Removed. Mounting /proc has the side effect of creating /etc/mtab
  584. for us.</para></listitem>
  585. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Make:
  586. Removed modification of /usr/bin/make file. It is no longer mistakenly
  587. installed with strange ownership or permissions.</para></listitem>
  588. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc:
  589. Made /etc/localtime a file instead of a symlink. The symlink method breaks
  590. on systems where /usr is a separate partition.</para></listitem>
  591. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing E2fsprogs:
  592. Removed install-info commands for e2fsprogs. The "make install" target
  593. handles this for us.</para></listitem>
  594. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed all CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
  595. variables where they are not essential (so, not including static binutils,
  596. GCC and compiling Zlib with -fPIC).</para></listitem>
  597. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils (pass1,
  598. pass2), locking in Glibc and adjusting toolchain: Changed tooldir to /stage1
  599. (likewise we use tooldir=/usr in Chapter 6).</para></listitem>
  600. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Kernel headers:
  601. Removed the usage of <userinput>cp -H</userinput> because there are
  602. distributions out there that do not know about the
  603. <userinput>-H</userinput> option.</para></listitem>
  604. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: New
  605. gcc-3.2.3-specs-3.patch.</para></listitem>
  606. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Adjusting toolchain:
  607. Made it more architecture-independent.</para></listitem>
  608. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Locking in Glibc:
  609. Made it more architecture-independent.</para></listitem>
  610. <listitem><para>May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed GCC No Debug patches. No
  611. longer assume gcc-core and gcc-g++ packages are downloaded, so added
  612. appropriate --enable-languages options.</para></listitem>
  613. <listitem><para>May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Chapter 6 - Glibc-Pass2.
  614. It's not needed anymore with the pure-lfs integration.</para></listitem>
  615. <listitem><para>May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Downgraded to flex-2.5.4a again.
  616. Newer versions just don't work properly.</para></listitem>
  617. <listitem><para>May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed zlib installation from
  618. chapter 5 (its inclusion was a mistake).</para></listitem>
  619. <listitem><para>May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Various bug fixes that were
  620. introduced during the pure-lfs integration.</para></listitem>
  621. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.7.4,
  622. e2fsprogs-1.33, file-4.02, flex-2.5.31, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2,
  623. grep-2.5.1, groff-1.19, less-381, libtool-1.5, man-1.5l, man-pages-1.56,
  624. modutils-2.4.25, procps-3.1.8, sed-4.0.7, sysvinit-2.85, texinfo-4.5,
  625. util-linux-2.11z</para></listitem>
  626. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Removed fileutils-4.1,
  627. sh-utils-2.0, textutils-2.1 (all replaced with
  628. coreutils-5.0).</para></listitem>
  629. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Added binutils-2.13.2-libc.patch,
  630. coreutils-5.0, dejagnu-1.4.3, expect-5.38, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-2.95.3,
  631. tcl-8.4.2</para></listitem>
  632. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard] - Integrated new installation method
  633. from the Pure LFS hint written by Greg Schafer and Ryan Oliver.</para></listitem>
  634. </itemizedlist>
  635. <para>Release of version 4.1 on April 28th, 2003.</para>
  636. </sect1>