Changelog

5.0-pre1 - September 17th, 2003

• Upgraded to:

  • automake-1.7.6

  • bash-2.05b

  • binutils-2.14

  • e2fsprogs-1.34

  • file-4.04

  • findutils-4.1.20

  • gawk-3.1.3

  • gcc-3.3.1

  • gettext-0.12.1

  • glibc-2.3.2

  • glibc-2.3.2-sscanf-1.patch

  • grep-2.5.1

  • groff-1.19

  • gzip-1.3.5

  • less-381

  • libtool-1.5

  • linux-2.4.22

  • man-1.5m2

  • man-1.5m2-80cols.patch

  • man-1.5m2-manpath.patch

  • man-1.5m2-pager.patch

  • man-pages-1.60

  • modutils-2.4.25

  • procps-3.1.11

  • procps-3.1.11.patch

  • psmisc-21.3

  • sed-4.0.7

  • sysvinit-2.85

  • tar-1.13.25

  • texinfo-4.6

  • util-linux-2.12

  • vim-6.2

• Added:

  • bash-2.05b-2.patch

  • bison-1.875-attribute.patch

  • coreutils-5.0

  • coreutils-5.0-uname.patch

  • coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch

  • dejagnu-1.4.3

  • expect-5.39.0

  • expect-5.39.0.patch

  • gawk-3.1.3.patch

  • gcc-2.95.3

  • gcc-2.95.3-2.patch

  • gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch

  • gcc-3.3.1-no_fixincludes-2.patch

  • gcc-3.3.1-specs-1.patch

  • gcc-3.3.1-suppress-libiberty.patch

  • grub-0.93

  • grub-0.93-gcc33-1.patch

  • inetutils-1.4.2

  • lfs-utils-0.3

  • ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch

  • ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch

  • perl-5.8.0-libc-3.patch

  • shadow-4.0.3-newgroup-fix.patch

  • tcl-8.4.4

  • zlib-1.1.4-vsnprintf.patch

• Removed:

  • bin86-0.16.3

  • fileutils-4.1

  • fileutils-4.1.patch

  • findutils-4.1-segfault.patch

  • findutils-4.1.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch

  • gzip-1.2.4b.patch

  • lilo-22.2

  • netkit-base-0.17

  • sh-utils-2.0

  • sh-utils-2.0.patch

  • sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch

  • tar-1.13.patch

  • textutils-2.1

  • vim-6.1.patch

• September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added rationale notes.

• September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgements page to match the website.

• September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Upgraded File to 4.04

• September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - changed 2 of the occurances of exec bash --login to include the +h directive.

• September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Do "make -C ld install" instead of "make -C ld install-data-local" to install a whole new linker instead of just the new ldscripts.

• September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Normalized the spelling of 'Tcl' and 'DejaGnu', following their own documentation.

• September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Properly alphabetized the dependencies.

• September 16th, 2003 [alex]: Finally updated the dependencies for the new Coreutils.

• September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Added sanity checks.

• September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Binutils, GCC, and Glibc: Added notes on the test suites.

• September 15th, 2003 [alex]: Corrected several typos and some inconsistencies.

• September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Revised chroot command: Removed no longer needed set +h.

• September 14th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed some typos, and added some markup. Dropped the removal of program files from the Stripping section in Chapter 5.

• September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Create essential symlinks: Add symlink /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to allow gcc abi_check to run. Future NPTL needs this as well.

• September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Added PLFS hint text to the page in Chapter 6 for creating passwd and group: bug 596.

• September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the "How things are going to be done" page to include more of the PLFS hint's text.

• September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Preface - Merged whoread and whonotread into a single audience page.

• September 13th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 2 - Added new section about the test suites.

• September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Ncurses: Added description for the --without-ada configure switch.

• September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Gawk: Added the testsuite

• September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Grep: Added descriptions of configure switches courtesy of Anderson Lizardo

• September 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed /usr/lib/locale directory creation - it's created during Chapter 6 - Glibc where it's more relevant.

• September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Fixed GCC Pass 2 specs patch text to be more vague, but in actuality more accurate - provided by Anderson Lizardo.

• September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Grammar fix in Tcl install directions provided by Anderson Lizardo.

• September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Small textual change in the locking in Glibc page for /lib/ld.so.1 provided by Anderson Lizardo.

• September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added bootloader setup to Chapter 8, after the addition of Grub to the book.

• September 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Bin86 and LILO and replaced it with Grub.

• September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Dropped non-toolchain tests to optional actions. Added a note to use the Wiki for failed tests.

• September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Bison patch, backported from CVS, to fix pwlib compilation problems

• September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Greg's patch to GCC to suppress the installation of libiberty, and changed Binutils to allow its libiberty to stay.

• September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added caution tags around the reminder to not delete the Binutils source and build directories in Chapter 5.

• September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added new perl-libc-3 patch from Anderson Lizardo

• September 9th, 2003 [jwrober]: Fixed the Findutils package download link on the packages page closing bug 578.

• September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC 2.95.3: Removed compilation of C++, added Zack's return-type patch.

• September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Coreutils: Added coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch, which suppresses the build of the hostname binary, and also suppresses its check.

• September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added some notes regarding failed tests to Glibc and DejaGnu.

• September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Glibc - Added commands to both Chapter 5 and 6 to include minimum locales necessary for checks.

• September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed Zlib's munging of CFLAGS in favor of a note to add -fPIC.

• September 8th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 5 - Fixed the rm command that deletes unneeded documentation from /tools/share.

• September 6th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Removed a reference to "the static" directory in the intro.

• September 6th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Updated download locations for some packages.

• September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Corrected the make check error explanation

• September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Makedev: Changed the default device creation to generic-nopty, because we now use devpts by default.

• September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC: Corrected wording to reflect the removal of the /usr/lib/cpp symlink.

• September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Corrected perl libc patch to -2, changing the old /stage1 structure to /tools

• September 5th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated gcc specs patch and upgraded to man-1.5m2

• September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Creating Directories: Eliminated the creation of /usr/tmp - Closes bug 176.

• September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc: Added mounting the devpts filesystem into chroot here. Closes bug 533.

• September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc: Added a warning at the end regarding checking that proc is still mounted if you stop and restart the lfs process.

• September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Altered text to better explain the reason behind the sed command used in the gzip installation. Closes bug 551.

• September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Downloading patches: Added a note regarding Tushar's patches project, and a link to the patches home page.

• September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Fixed issue with util-linux not utilising headers and libraries installed in /stage1.

• September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Removed "rm /bin/pwd" instruction from chapter06 kernel-headers installation as the link is still required by Glibc's installation.

• September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Adjusted all the SBUs from the values posted by Jeremy.

• September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Finally got around to renaming /stage1 to /tools.

• September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Merged several of the main book structure files.

• September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Alphabetized download lists, added note to Tcl instructions.

• September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Reworded Organization, $LFS and SBUs sections.

• September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 - Groff - Added note about choice of A4 or letter for the PAGE variable.

• September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in shadow newgrp patch from Greg Schafer

• August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 - Inetutils - added the --disable-whois and --disable-servers flags

• August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in Greg's new instructions for GCC 3.3.1 with respect to the fixincludes process. Also added extra verbiage to the locking-in and GCC pass 2 pages on the fixincludes process.

• August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Added user nobody to passwd and group files, so coreutils tests will pass.

• August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Reworded some paragraphs, added missing markup, and rearranged the changelog.

• August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Wrapped the 'Last checked' lines in parentheses. Several other small retouches.

• August 30, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated fix-includes patch to GCC 3.3.1

• August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Glibc - updated instructions with the sscanf patch from patches.

• August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated GCC to version 3.3.1, including fixes based on Zack's mini-hint for GCC 3.3, and patches from his docs.

• August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Removed obsolete Netkit-base, Fileutils, Sh-utils, and Textutils files.

• August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Added some missing markup, changed a few /static's to /stage1's.

• August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Added all the missing text lines before the make checks, and reworded other lines.

• August 28, 2003 [matt] - Updated packages to linux-2.4.22, man-pages-1.60, expect-5.39.0, findutils-4.1.20 and tcl-8.4.4

• August 28, 2003 [jeremy] - New bash-2.05b-2.patch file to include the 7 patches from ftp.gnu.org

• August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Re-adjusting toolchain: Added a forgotten backslash.

• August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed a few typos and added some missing markup.

• August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Binutils and GCC: Integrated text from the pure-lfs hint.

• August 27, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 - Inetutils: Added --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var and moved the ping binary from /usr/bin to /bin

• August 27th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Integrated text from the pure-lfs hint.

• August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 07 - Creating /etc/hosts: Changed www.mydomain.org to <value of HOSTNAME>.mydomain.org

• August 26th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 & 08 - Moved the installation of the kernel manpages from chapter 6 to 8.

• August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 04 - Mounting the LFS partition: Added text regarding mounting with too restrictive permissions.

• August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 - Creating Directories: Added the creation of the /dev/shm directory.

• August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 - Creating fstab: Added the mount of tmpfs filesystem to /dev/shm.

• August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 - Kernel Installation: Added a reminder to compile tmpfs support into the kernel.

• August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Rewrote the installation text of Shadow and Util-Linux while correcting some typos.

• August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Made the "Locking in" and "Re-adjusting" look similar.

• August 24th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Merged the many little files into one file. Gave packages and patches a separate page.

• August 17th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Bash to Perl: put text in between commands. Added a section on stripping unneeded symbols to decrease the size of the tools.

• August 16th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Make to Texinfo: put text in between commands.

• August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Binutils Pass 1 to Findutils: several small textual adjustments. For the second passes not giving the contents and dependencies.

• August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Listed separate core, g++, and test suite tarballs for GCC.

• August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Suppressed the mention of a wget script.

• August 9th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2 and GCC Pass 2: integrated some text from the pure-lfs hint.

• August 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Tcl, Expect, and DejaGnu: added some text.

• August 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Applied Alex Groenewoud's patch that adds Appendix B, providing a list of all installed programs and libraries plus references to the installation pages.

• July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Changed the way the global vimrc and gvimrc locations are defined.

• July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2: removed the lib patch, it's no longer needed with the binutils-2.14 upgrade.

• July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 Binutils Pass1: Added make configure-host.

• July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to binutils-2.14, linux-2.4.21, expect-5.38.4, gawk-3.1.3, texinfo-4.6, util-linux-2.12, man-pages-1.58, lfs-utils-0.3, vim-6.2, gettext-0.12.1, automake-1.7.6, file-4.03, e2fsprogs-1.34, procps-3.1.11, psmisc-21.3

• June 3rd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: removed the removal of /bin/awk. This symlink isn't created anymore.

• May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added /opt/gcc-2.95.3/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file so the libraries can be found during run-time.

• May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Simplified commands.

• May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Simplified commands.

• May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added the grpconv command to complement the enabling of all shadowed passwords.

• May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating Files: All those ln commands can be made into a few long ln commands.

• May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Glibc: Create an ld.so.conf file before building Glibc, to prevent an (harmless) error.

• May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc: Don't bother doing the 'exec /stage1/bin/bash' stuff, it doesn't do anything now that we use PLFS.

• May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Installing Coreutils: Only test the non-root stuff in Chapter 05, but test everything in Chapter 06.

• May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Expect: Don't bother passing anything more than --prefix=/stage1. None of it is needed.

• May 16th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Net-tools: Changed make install to make update.

• May 15th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05: Installing Patch: Added CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE before ./configure to fix patch build on PPC.

• May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: When we exec /path/to/bash --login, also run set +h to keep the hashing option turned off. Fixes bug #531

• May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network: Changed the single quotes to double quotes in the echo command. Without it, $(hostname) won't expand which defeats the sole purpose of this command - to make Perl's hostname check work.

• May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed all occurrences &&. Updated bug syntax. Added "make check/test" where necessary in Chapter 6.

• May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Changing ownership" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #511.

• May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Configuring system components" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #510.

• May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed Tcl, Expect and DejaGnu. Nothing uses this once past GCC in chapter 6. The versions in /stage1/bin do the job just fine.

• May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Shadow: Touching the /usr/bin/passwd file before installation. Not doing so results in Shadow thinking passwd will be in /bin/passwd.

• May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps: Remove the /lib/libproc.so symlink. No package outside of Procps itself uses this library, and none should.

• May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools: Run "make config" before doing make. Fixes bugs #462 and #497.

• May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: Added the vsscanf patch.

• May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Removed make check. It doesn't do anything.

• May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Texinfo: Don't install the texmf data. It's not used by anything.

• May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Installing Ncurses: In Chapter 6, symlink creation has been updated to include libcurses.*, and libncurses++.a has its properties changed to 644. Chapter 5 doesn't need any libcurses.* so those are removed.

• May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network: Added $(hostname) to /etc/hosts, without it Perl's hostname test doesn't pass.

• May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC: Don't try to remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It isn't installed in the first place.

• May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to findutils-4.1.7, gzip-1.3.5, and tar-1.13.25.

• May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Perl: Added extra commands to build certain modules into Perl. This is to accommodate the Coreutils "make check". Partially fixes bug #528.

• May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Gzip: Nothing in Chapter 6 checks for or uses the uncompress command, therefore we shouldn't create it.

• May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Bzip2: Running "make" implies "make check", therefore there is no reason whatsoever for us to run it manually.

• May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Lfs-Utils: Removed. The only package that checks for mktemp before it is installed is GCC, and that's only for gccbug.

• May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added --enable-threads=posix as well to complete the C++ addition.

• May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added --enable-languages=c,c++ to fix that GCC's version bug with regards to -Wreturn-type. Fixes bug #525

• May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed the --without-bash-malloc configure option.

• May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Updated to gcc-3.2.3-specs-4.patch.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Setting up Basic Networking: Added section. Create a basic /etc/hosts files, and create /etc/services and /etc/protocols from IANA. Fixes bugs #359 & #515.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgrading to lfs-utils-0.2.2. This adds two files needed for proper networking configuration.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed Netkit-base 0.17. Added Inetutils 1.4.2. Fixes bug #490.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Added lfs-utils-0.2.1. Fixes bug #493.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses: Fix up the symlinks so that they follow suit of other library symlinks. No more weirdness here.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps: Removed XSCPT="" cruft and its corresponding paragraph. This stuff isn't needed anymore.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses: Pass --without-debug to the configure script. It seems to have gotten lost at some point.

• May 11th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 5 & 6 - Installing Bzip2, Installing Zlib: Modified build commands per bug #524.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc: Install the linuxthreads man pages, too. This got lost somewhere.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Grep: Added --with-included-regex to prevent Grep from using Glibc's somewhat bugged regex.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Coreutils: Fix some functionality of the uname command with a patch.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools: Just do regular old "make install" instead of "make update". The latter works fine now.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC: After installation, remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It is not used outside of the GCC build tree.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to Bash 2.05b and added its patch.

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Zlib: Apply a patch to fix the buffer overflow in gzprintf().

• May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Configuring system components: Moved the creation of the btmp, wtmp, lastlog and utmp to just before Shadow, so that they are detected at their proper locations.

• May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Automake: Run "make" before installing. This is needed now with the newer releases of Automake.

• May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Vim: Removed the patch. It hasn't been required since GCC 3.2.1.

• May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating the mtab file: Removed. Mounting /proc has the side effect of creating /etc/mtab for us.

• May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Make: Removed modification of /usr/bin/make file. It is no longer mistakenly installed with strange ownership or permissions.

• May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc: Made /etc/localtime a file instead of a symlink. The symlink method breaks on systems where /usr is a separate partition.

• May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing E2fsprogs: Removed install-info commands for e2fsprogs. The "make install" target handles this for us.

• May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed all CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables where they are not essential (so, not including static binutils, GCC and compiling Zlib with -fPIC).

• May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils (pass1, pass2), locking in Glibc and adjusting toolchain: Changed tooldir to /stage1 (likewise we use tooldir=/usr in Chapter 6).

• May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Kernel headers: Removed the usage of cp -H because there are distributions out there that do not know about the -H option.

• May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: New gcc-3.2.3-specs-3.patch.

• May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Adjusting toolchain: Made it more architecture-independent.

• May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Locking in Glibc: Made it more architecture-independent.

• May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed GCC No Debug patches. No longer assume gcc-core and gcc-g++ packages are downloaded, so added appropriate --enable-languages options.

• May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Chapter 6 - Glibc-Pass2. It's not needed anymore with the pure-lfs integration.

• May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Downgraded to flex-2.5.4a again. Newer versions just don't work properly.

• May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed zlib installation from chapter 5 (its inclusion was a mistake).

• May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Various bug fixes that were introduced during the pure-lfs integration.

• May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.7.4, e2fsprogs-1.33, file-4.02, flex-2.5.31, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2, grep-2.5.1, groff-1.19, less-381, libtool-1.5, man-1.5l, man-pages-1.56, modutils-2.4.25, procps-3.1.8, sed-4.0.7, sysvinit-2.85, texinfo-4.5, util-linux-2.11z

• May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Removed fileutils-4.1, sh-utils-2.0, textutils-2.1 (all replaced with coreutils-5.0).

• May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Added binutils-2.13.2-libc.patch, coreutils-5.0, dejagnu-1.4.3, expect-5.38, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-2.95.3, tcl-8.4.2

• May 2nd, 2003 [gerard] - Integrated new installation method from the Pure LFS hint written by Greg Schafer and Ryan Oliver.

4.1 - April 28th, 2003

• Upgraded to:

  • autoconf-2.57

  • automake-1.7.2

  • bison-1.875

  • e2fsprogs-1.32

  • gawk-3.1.1-3.patch

  • gcc-3.2.1

  • glibc-2.3.1

  • groff-1.18.1

  • kbd-1.08

  • less-378

  • lfs-bootscripts-1.11

  • libtool-1.4.3

  • linux-2.4.20

  • make-3.80

  • man-1.5k-2.patch

  • man-pages-1.54

  • modutils-2.4.22

  • ncurses-5.3

  • procps-3.1.5

  • psmisc-21.2

  • sed-4.0.5

  • texinfo-4.3

  • util-linux-2.11y

• Added:

  • findutils-4.1-segfault.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch

  • kbd-1.08.patch

  • man-1.5k-80cols.patch

  • man-1.5k-manpath.patch

  • man-1.5k-pager.patch

• Removed:

  • gcc-3.2.1-nofixincludes-2.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1.patch

  • kbd-1.06-3.patch

  • man-1.5k-2.patch

  • ncurses-5.2-2.patch

• February 3rd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to lfs-bootscripts-1.11 to implement Seth Klein's mtab changes (see entry below this one).

• February 3rd, 2003 [sklein]: Chapter 06: Changed /etc/mtab from a symlink to a file.

• January 29th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Changed the install target to install-no-fixedincludes.

• January 29th, 2003 [gerard]: Downgraded to binutils-2.13.2 due to a GCC bug that can't parse the version string of binutils 2.13.2.1. The only changes between 2.13.2 and 2.13.2.1 are documentation changes, so there is no actual code downgrade. A better fix will be added to the book later.

• January 27th, 2003 [gerard, timothy, billy]: Converted the software installation pages into a new format. Also merged software installations with their configure components from "Configuring essential software".

• January 22nd, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Configuring essential software: Corrected kernel directory for keymap location.

• January 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Added a new chroot command after the second Glibc installation that is to be used from that point onwards.

• January 9th, 2003 [timothy]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added patch URL.

• January 9th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Findutils: Removed -D_GNU_SOURCE flag for now because it's breaking compilation; 4 people have reported this bug.

• January 8th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added missing / before configure line.

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bison: removed yacc script creation. Bison now installs this by default.

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to Binutils-2.13.2.1, Bison-1.875 and Man-pages-1.54

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Findutils: Added CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE to promote proper compiling on non-x86 architectures.

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Zlib: Added CFLAGS variable to define -fPIC so the dynamic library gets compiled properly at all times.

• January 5th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Applied a revised version of Alex's patch to split the Install all software as an unprivileged user page into two pages: Adding the user lfs and Setting up the environment.

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - All packages whose configure script supports the LDFLAGS environment variable now use it rather than passing the variable down to make.

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Fixed the gawk patch. make uninstall will no longer wipe out the /usr/bin directory. Also, renamed /usr/share/gawk to /usr/share/gawk-3.1.1.

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the glibc-2.3.1 mega-patch with two separate patches (glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch and glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch).

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the man-1.5k mega-patch with three separate patches (man-1.5k-80cols.patch, man-1.5k-manpath.patch and man-1.5k-pager.patch).

• January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc Second Pass: Fixed typo in linuxthreads man pages installation.

• January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux Kernel: The man pages can't be installed here because it requires Perl. Moved to end of chapter 6.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Updated the patch so man pages are formatted properly on screens with more than 80 columns.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added make mandocs to create man pages and copy them to /usr/share/man/man9

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Changed the download location to http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added second Glibc installation at the end of the chapter. Removed the separate linuxthreads man-pages installation and moved that to the second Glibc installation.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to Glibc-2.3.1

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed nofixincludes patch and use the built-in install-no-fixedincludes make target.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN, added --with-ld and --with-as configure switches.

• December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to binutils-2.13.2, procps-3.1.5.

• December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05: Changed all LDFLAGS=-static to LDFLAGS="-static".

• December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Flex: Added symlink from libfl.a to libl.a.

• December 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to sed-4.0.5.

• December 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to procps-3.1.4.

• December 17th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 5 & 6: Modified paragraphs about unpacking patches since they are no longer compressed.

• December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.2, binutils-2.13.1, e2fsprogs-1.32, gcc-3.2.1, libtool-1.4.3, linux-2.4.20, modutils-2.4.22, procps-3.1.3, sed-4.0.4, texinfo-4.3, util-linux-2.11y.

• December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Removed warning about --enable-kernel.

• December 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Changed all links into Freshmeat.net project links, removed lfs-packages tarball. This was done because the LFS FTP archive won't contain the packages anymore, instead you have to go to the package's download sites to get them.

• December 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Renamed usbdevfs into usbfs as the kernel guys made this change to reduce confusion with devfs.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sed: Added --disable-nls

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 03 - Creating filesystem: Added a note that mkswap has to be run if a new swap partition has been created.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed unnecessary lines that first create a symlink, then remove it again.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Updated the download URL.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Removed the PROCESSEDEXAMPLEFILES="" variables.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Added "Prerequisites" section.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09: Added "What now?" section.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Appendix B.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Which Platform" section.

• October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Swapped chapter03 and chapter04.

• October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Where to store the downloaded software" and "How to install the software" sections.

• October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to bison-1.75, sed-4.0. Moved m4 before bison to meet its dependency.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Linux-2.4.19: Replaced mkdir /usr/include/asm and cp command with cp -HR.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added findutils-4.1-segfault.patch to fix a segfault in locate when it encounters a very long path name.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added libtool-1.4.2.patch to fix an incompatibility between Autoconf 2.53 and Libtool 1.4.x.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to automake-1.7.1, modutils-2.4.21, man-pages-1.53, kbd-1.08, util-linux-2.11w, autoconf-2.54, e2fsprogs-1.29, groff-1.18.1, psmisc-21.2, less-378, procps-3.0.4, make-3.80, ncurses-5.3.

• October 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Uncompressed patches.

• October 13th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Added -s to CC argument to make it consistent.

• October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Switched to gcc-core and gcc-g++.

• October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.