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1<sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
2<title>Changelog</title>
3<?dbhtml filename="changelog.html" dir="chapter01"?>
4
5<para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
6
7<itemizedlist>
8
9<listitem><para>Updated to:
10
11<itemizedlist>
12<listitem><para>bison-1.35</para></listitem>
13<listitem><para>diffutils-2.8.1</para></listitem>
14<listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
15<listitem><para>texinfo-4.2</para></listitem>
16<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11q</para></listitem>
17</itemizedlist>
18
19</para></listitem>
20
21<listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
22that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
23then you first need to create the
24<filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
25
26<listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to
27MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
28
29<listitem><para>April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to
30cvs and split up index.xml.</para></listitem>
31
32<listitem><para>April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following
33packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q
34</para></listitem>
35
36<listitem><para>April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp
37to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static
38pcre library.</para></listitem>
39
40<listitem><para>April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the
41http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement
42ftp://ftp.de).</para></listitem>
43
44</itemizedlist>
45
46<para>3.3 - April 7th, 2002</para>
47
48<itemizedlist>
49
50<listitem><para>Updated to:
51
52<itemizedlist>
53<listitem><para>autoconf-2.53</para></listitem>
54<listitem><para>automake-1.6</para></listitem>
55<listitem><para>bin86-0.16.2</para></listitem>
56<listitem><para>binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
57<listitem><para>bison-1.34</para></listitem>
58<listitem><para>bzip2-1.0.2</para></listitem>
59<listitem><para>diffutils-2.8</para></listitem>
60<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.27</para></listitem>
61<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.0</para></listitem>
62<listitem><para>gettext-0.11.1</para></listitem>
63<listitem><para>grep-2.5</para></listitem>
64<listitem><para>less-374</para></listitem>
65<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
66<listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
67<listitem><para>linux-2.4.18</para></listitem>
68<listitem><para>man-pages-1.48</para></listitem>
69<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.15</para></listitem>
70<listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
71<listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
72<listitem><para>texinfo-4.1</para></listitem>
73<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
74<listitem><para>vim-6.1</para></listitem>
75</itemizedlist>
76
77</para></listitem>
78
79<listitem><para>April 7th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new mirror site located
80in Freising, Germany</para></listitem>
81
82<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Added this
83page explaining that you can remove the loadkeys symlink from <filename
84class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d</filename> if you compiled a keymap
85directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>
86
87<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configuring
88Keyboard: explained you can also compile the keymap directly into the
89kernel which has additional benefits.</para></listitem>
90
91<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
92lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
93
94<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - GCC: Added
95commands to remove the <filename class="directory">/usr/*-gnu</filename>
96directory.</para></listitem>
97
98<listitem><para>April 4th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Diffutils: Added
99--disable-nls</para></listitem>
100
101<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: Added the
102missing package descriptions.</para></listitem>
103
104<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Mounting $LFS/proc:
105Added <userinput>chown root.root $LFS/proc</userinput>. The recursive chown
106operation in chapter 6 doesn't touch proc, so this'll remain owned by user
107<emphasis>lfs</emphasis>. It's not a big deal, just not a very clean thing
108to do.</para></listitem>
109
110<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Added a few
111symlinks that are used by programs like <userinput>xman</userinput> and
112others.</para></listitem>
113
114<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Mounting partitions:
115Added some notes how to deal with multiple partitions ($LFS, $LFS/usr and
116so on).</para></listitem>
117
118<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - E2fsprogs: Added
119<userinput>install-info</userinput> command to finish off the info page
120installation.</para></listitem>
121
122<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Reversed the
123<userinput>make</userinput> and <userinput>make -f
124Makefile-libbz2_so</userinput>. This is needed so all object files are
125compiled with the PIC option (Position Independent Code).</para></listitem>
126
127<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Linux: Shortened the
128installation instructions by cutting out the <userinput>make
129config</userinput> and <userinput>make dep</userinput>
130stages.</para></listitem>
131
132<listitem><para>April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 -
133Gawk: Added a warning to never run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on
134the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to <userinput>rm -rf
135/usr/bin/*</userinput> because we override the <filename
136class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition to <filename
137class="directory">/usr/bin</filename></para></listitem>
138
139<listitem><para>March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to
140diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting
141for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script.
142Removed sed to fix problem with shell syntax highlighting in vim as that
143is fixed in the new version.</para></listitem>
144
145<listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
146Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
147
148<listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
149library description.</para></listitem>
150
151<listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before we
152move <filename>/usr/bin/bzless</filename> and
153<filename>/usr/bin/bzmore</filename> to the <filename
154class="directory">/bin</filename> directory, we first remove the
155<filename>/bin/bzless</filename> and <filename>/bin/bzmore</filename>
156files. On some systems overwriting the existing files doesn't work due to
157hardlinks being used.</para></listitem>
158
159<listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Sysklogd: Updated
160the download location to <ulink url="http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/">http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/</ulink></para></listitem>
161
162<listitem><para>March 20th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure Dynamic
163Loader: Removed the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
164<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> directories from the
165<filename>ld.so.conf</filename> file. They were
166unnecessary.</para></listitem>
167
168<listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06+Appendix A: Removed
169the chroot dependencies. It's not a package so it's a bit out of
170place.</para></listitem>
171
172<listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Gawk: Added
173commands to sed the <filename>awklib/Makefile.in</filename> file to change
174the <emphasis>datadir</emphasis> and <emphasis>libexecdir</emphasis>
175definitions</para></listitem>
176
177<listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mailing lists:
178Added lfs-chat description</para></listitem>
179
180<listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06-Shadow: Move
181<filename>libmisc.*a</filename> to
182<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> too.</para></listitem>
183
184<listitem><para>March 14th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
185bison-1.34, gettext-0.11.1, grep-2.5, lfs-bootscripts-1.8,
186shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
187
188<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
189binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
190
191<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
192here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
193which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
194changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
195clock is setup.</para></listitem>
196
197<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
198the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
199The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used
200now).</para></listitem>
201
202<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk: Added
203-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 bug fix for glibc-2.1.x
204systems.</para></listitem>
205
206<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before
207installing, remove <filename>/usr/bin/bz*</filename>. The bzip2
208installation doesn't deal with existing files properly when making hard
209links, so we remove the files first.</para></listitem>
210
211<listitem><para>March 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure keyboard:
212Added section to configure keyboard keymap file by creating the <filename
213class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
214symlink.</para></listitem>
215
216<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Make bootable: Added
217a <userinput>cp</userinput> command that finds all the kernel images from
218<filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> automatically and copies them to
219<filename class="directory">$LFS/boot</filename>.</para></listitem>
220
221<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Moved the
222<filename>man.conf</filename> from <filename
223class="directory">/usr/share/misc</filename> to <filename
224class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para></listitem>
225
226<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07: Added a page about
227the sysklogd script and explain that the default script includes the
228<emphasis>-m 0</emphasis> option to
229<userinput>syslogd</userinput>.</para></listitem>
230
231<listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the Mawk package and
232replaced with the Gawk package. This was done because mawk is no longer
233being developed, while gawk is. Mawk has some POSIX compliance bugs that
234are fixed in Gawk.</para></listitem>
235
236<listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to the following
237packages: autoconf-2.53, automake-1.6, bin86-0.16.2, bison-1.33,
238bzip2-1.0.2, e2fsprogs-1.27, gawk-3.1.0, gettext-0.11, less-374, lilo-22.2,
239linux-2.4.18, man-pages-1.48, modutils-2.4.14, reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b,
240shadow-4.0.2, texinfo-4.1, util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
241
242</itemizedlist>
243
244<para>3.2 - March 7th, 2002</para>
245
246<itemizedlist>
247
248<listitem><para>Updated to:
249
250<itemizedlist>
251<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
252</itemizedlist>
253
254</para></listitem>
255
256<listitem><para>March 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Creating
257directories: Removed the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
258and <filename class="directory">/usr/local/var</filename> directories. They
259aren't recommended by the <emphasis>FHS</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
260
261<listitem><para>February 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Make: Added
262commands to remove the setgid kmem bit from
263<filename>/usr/bin/make</filename>. This isn't needed on Linux systems to
264deal with the system load and it causes some other problems too that are
265fixed by removing the setgid bit.</para></listitem>
266
267<listitem><para>February 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
268lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
269
270<listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Added
271the command again that moves $LFS/usr/bin/chroot to
272$LFS/usr/sbin</para></listitem>
273
274<listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard] Updated dependencies for all
275packages.</para></listitem>
276
277<listitem><para>February 15th, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 01: Added a new mirror
278to the list located in The Netherlands (www.nl and
279ftp.nl).</para></listitem>
280
281<listitem><para>February 11th, 2002 [markh] Chapter 05: Sh-utils:
282Removed extra &amp;&amp; from end of install
283instructions.</para></listitem>
284
285<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils:
286Removed <emphasis>su</emphasis> from the <emphasis>mv</emphasis> command
287as this isn't installed in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
288
289</itemizedlist>
290
291<para>3.2-RC1 - February 10th, 2002</para>
292
293<itemizedlist>
294
295<listitem><para>Updated to:
296
297<itemizedlist>
298<listitem><para>bison-1.31</para></listitem>
299<listitem><para>file-3.37</para></listitem>
300<listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5</para></listitem>
301<listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
302<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
303<listitem><para>linux-2.4.17</para></listitem>
304<listitem><para>man-pages-1.47</para></listitem>
305<listitem><para>psmisc-20.2</para></listitem>
306<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.84</para></listitem>
307<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11n</para></listitem>
308</itemizedlist>
309
310</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
311
312<itemizedlist>
313
314<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added a sed
315command to change gzexe's hardcoded /usr/bin/gzip path and change it to
316/bin/gzip.</para></listitem>
317
318<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 + 6: Moved
319additional programs to the ($LFS)/bin directory that are used by the
320bootscripts. No programs used by bootscripts (except daemons themselves)
321should be in the /usr directory in case /usr isn't available until far
322along in the boot process (when it's an NFS share for
323example).</para></listitem>
324
325<listitem><para>February 6th, 2002 [markh]: Appendix A - All
326descriptions now synced and updated.</para></listitem>
327
328<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Changing owner:
329Added <quote>cd /</quote> so the leading slash can be removed from all the
330directories in the chown commands. It's more pleasant to type out this
331way.</para></listitem>
332
333<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
334lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
335
336<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Removed the
337compress symlink. Gzip can uncompress .Z files but it can't compress into
338that format.</para></listitem>
339
340<listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
341lfs-bootscripts-1.3</para></listitem>
342
343<listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Glibc: Instead of
344sed'ing the <filename>config.make</filename> file, create the
345<filename>glibc-build/configparms</filename> file containing
346<quote>cross-compiling = no</quote>.</para></listitem>
347
348<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5: Changed
349the commands to copy the header files to support versions of cp older
350than 4.1.</para></listitem>
351
352<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Added
353CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" to the configure command for patch.
354This fixes compilation on PPC and m68k platforms and doesn't hurt on
355x86.</para></listitem>
356
357<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Mounting proc:
358Rephrased the text a bit (it implied you can only mount the proc fs more
359than once, which isn't true anymore these days).</para></listitem>
360
361<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 5: Enhanced the make
362mrproper explanation.</para></listitem>
363
364<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5+6: Removed
365the --libexecdir flag from fileutils' configure options.</para></listitem>
366
367<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 6: Added a
368symlink from vipw to vigr after installing shadow.</para></listitem>
369
370<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Changed
371binutils and e2fsprogs installation instructions to use separate
372directories ala gcc and glibc.</para></listitem>
373
374<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bootscripts: Added
375a chown root.root after the cp.</para></listitem>
376
377<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Texinfo: the info
378programs works on the /usr/share/info directory not
379/usr/doc/info.</para></listitem>
380
381<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Procps: Fixed typo
382the path to the app-defaults directory (it's
383/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and not
384usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults).</para></listitem>
385
386<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configure
387software: Simplified the commands to create the utmp, btmp, lastlog and
388wtmp files.</para></listitem>
389
390<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter1: Moved
391Acknowledgements to be displayed as the first page in chapter
3921.</para></listitem>
393
394<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Created a separate
395page to list the HTTP and FTP mirrors.</para></listitem>
396
397<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 4 - Creating
398partition: increased the suggested partition size from 750 MB to 1
399GB.</para></listitem>
400
401<listitem><para>January 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Combined
402the <quote>mv libshadow.a /usr/lib</quote> and
403<quote>mv libshadow.la /usr/lib</quote> commands into
404<quote>mv libshadow.*a /usr/lib</quote></para></listitem>
405
406<listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
407lfs-bootscripts-1.2</para></listitem>
408
409<listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Removed the
410datadir option from bisons configure flags, because recent bisons use the
411correct directory by default.</para></listitem>
412
413<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added the section
414Create /etc/mtab symlink.</para></listitem>
415
416<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the file -C command
417from the file installation. This package runs this command at the very end
418of the installation so we don't need to do this anymore.</para></listitem>
419
420<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 4+5+6: The static
421environment is now built as an unprivileged user, removing the risk of
422overwriting files of the host distribution.</para></listitem>
423
424<listitem><para>January 22nd, 2002 [markh]: Back out linuxthreads
425man-page installation instructions as they don't work (they need perl
426which we don't have installed at that point).</para></listitem>
427
428<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to glibc-2.2.5. At
429the same time, fixed the glibc installation so that the linuxthreads man
430pages are installed.</para></listitem>
431
432<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to bison-1.31,
433file-3.37, kernel-2.4.17, psmisc-20.2 and
434sysvinit-2.84.</para></listitem>
435
436<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to util-linux-2.11n
437and removed ADD_RAW=yes as it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>
438
439<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to man-pages-1.47
440and removed the man-pages patch.</para></listitem>
441
442<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A: Added bootscripts
443files (dependencies, download location, descriptions)</para></listitem>
444
445<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added bootscripts
446installation.</para></listitem>
447
448<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 7: Removed most of the
449scripts, only left the part of a few where we setup up config files in
450/etc/sysconfig.</para></listitem>
451
452<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configuring
453Sysvinit: Changed the inittab contents to match the new
454bootscripts.</para></listitem>
455
456<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
457the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>
458
459<listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header
460files installation in chapter 5 so it's a bit more portable.</para></listitem>
461
462<listitem><para>January 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Reformatted the dependency
463lists.</para></listitem>
464
465<listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Happy New Year
466LFS!</para></listitem>
467
468<listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [markh]: First Changelog of New Year!
469Update copyright notice to cover 2002 ;-) OK - I'm
470sad...</para></listitem>
471
472<listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Reworded why
473ed is optional to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
474
475<listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Reworded
476the TEXMF explanation to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
477
478<listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 4: Replaced the "One
479partition hint" reference with lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt hint
480reference.</para></listitem>
481
482<listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [markh]: Finish Appendix merge. All
483of the old appendices A, B and D are now in one (large) Appendix
484A.</para></listitem>
485
486<listitem><para>December 14th, 2001 [markh]: Merged appendices A and
487B.</para></listitem>
488
489<listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix B: Changed dbhtml
490tag so that the flex page is now created as flex.html instead of
491flex</para></listitem>
492
493<listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix D: Moved
494metalab.unc.edu and ftp.ibiblio.org references to the proper URL
495ibiblio.org.</para></listitem>
496
497<listitem><para>December 12th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Moved
498the kbd patch to the default installation instructions; upgraded to
499kbd-1.06-2.patch to fix installation of some programs; added the
500descriptions for these programs; removed the loadkeys -d warning that
501was a leftover from the time where loadkeys -d wasn't fixed yet.</para></listitem>
502
503<listitem><para>December 11th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add the "why we
504cd $LFS before chroot" explanation.</para></listitem>
505
506<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add kbd patch
507for loadkeys -d behaviour (patch by Matthias Benkmann; originally posted
508to the lfs-dev list).</para></listitem>
509
510<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Re-create
511symlinks in bash, fileutils and gcc instructions to make the Chapter 6
512instructions independent of those in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
513
514<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: Cleaned
515up the sed commands to use the backup file that was created earlier instead
516of writing to an intermediate 'tmp~' file.</para></listitem>
517
518<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: 'make'
519command for diffutils installation changed to 'make PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr.'
520This bug was reported by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>
521
522<listitem><para>December 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Change the
523configure command from <emphasis>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr</emphasis> to
524<emphasis>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</emphasis>. This is more consistent
525with the installation instructions for the other packages, and the result
526is identical to the old way.</para></listitem>
527
528<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 2: Added the Which
529Platform? section.</para></listitem>
530
531</itemizedlist>
532
533<para>3.1 - December 3rd, 2001</para>
534
535<itemizedlist>
536
537<listitem><para>Added:
538
539<itemizedlist>
540<listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j</para></listitem>
541</itemizedlist>
542
543</para></listitem>
544
545<listitem><para>Updated to:
546
547<itemizedlist>
548<listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.4</para></listitem>
549<listitem><para>bash-2.05a</para></listitem>
550<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.25</para></listitem>
551<listitem><para>gettext-0.10.40</para></listitem>
552<listitem><para>libtool-1.4.2</para></listitem>
553<listitem><para>lilo-22.1</para></listitem>
554<listitem><para>linux-2.4.16</para></listitem>
555<listitem><para>man-1.5j</para></listitem>
556<listitem><para>man-pages-1.43</para></listitem>
557<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.12</para></listitem>
558<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.83</para></listitem>
559<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11m</para></listitem>
560<listitem><para>vim-6.0</para></listitem>
561</itemizedlist>
562
563</para></listitem>
564
565<listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Updated to
566man-1.5j. Removed the sed which we had to use with the old version as
567the new one detects awk properly.</para></listitem>
568
569<listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5: Added static
570library explanation originally posted on lfs-apps (when it still
571existed) by Plasmatic.</para></listitem>
572
573<listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
574kernel-2.4.16 and modutils-2.4.12.</para></listitem>
575
576<listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added FHS
577compliance notes to the findutils installation.</para></listitem>
578
579<listitem><para>November 19th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
580bash-2.05a, lilo-22.1, MAKEDEV-1.4, man-pages-1.43 and
581util-linux-2.11m.</para></listitem>
582
583<listitem><para>November 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Created new lex
584script instead of link to flex following comment on lfs-dev. (This is
585similar to what we do with bison and yacc).</para></listitem>
586
587<listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: General: Large XML Tidy-up.
588Shouldn't affect the book text or layout. If it does, something has
589gone wrong!</para></listitem>
590
591<listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added
592reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j and updated to lilo-22.0.2.</para></listitem>
593
594<listitem><para>October 24th, 2001 [markh]: General: Fixed a bundle of
595spelling errors which were reported.</para></listitem>
596
597<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Kernel: Added
598explanation as to why we copy the kernel headers rather than symlink
599them.</para></listitem>
600
601<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added
602uncompress to the gunzip description as it was
603missing.</para></listitem>
604
605<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
606Removed the USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin entry as it's no longer needed with
607util-linux-2.11l.</para></listitem>
608
609<listitem><para>October 9th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Kbd: Removed the
610--datadir option, kbd's default is set properly already.</para></listitem>
611
612<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Mentioned
613the <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt">http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt</ulink>
614lfs-hint</para></listitem>
615
616<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Vim: Changed the
617installation instructions to fix a bug in vim-6.0's
618<filename>syntax/sh.vim</filename> file, and added the CPPFLAGS variable
619to specify the global vimrc file as
620<filename>/etc/vimrc</filename></para></listitem>
621
622<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Updated to
623libtool-1.4.2, lilo-22.0, man-pages-1.40, modutils-2.4.10, sysvinit-2.83,
624util-linux-2.11l and vim-6.0</para></listitem>
625
626<listitem><para>October 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 9 - The End: Added the
627reference to the LFS Counter at
628<ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi">
629http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi</ulink></para></listitem>
630
631<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - News server:
632Added reference to the news server</para></listitem>
633
634<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Changed
635--with-root-prefix=/ to --with-root-prefix="" in e2fsprogs install
636instructions. The reason for the change is that a value of / will cause
637symlinks and installation paths to use things like //lib instead of
638just /lib. This isn't bad perse, it just doesn't look
639nice.</para></listitem>
640
641<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
642e2fsprogs-1.25, gettext-0.10.40, linux-2.4.10, modutils-2.4.9 and
643util-linux-2.11i.</para></listitem>
644
645<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
646descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>
647
648</itemizedlist>
649
650<para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>
651
652<itemizedlist>
653
654<listitem><para>Updated to:
655
656<itemizedlist>
657
658<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>
659
660</itemizedlist>
661
662</para></listitem>
663
664<listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
665mailing list information to reflect the new ml
666structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
667to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>
668
669<listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
670Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
671--enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads
672when
673not specified, it's clearer this way what's being
674enabled.</para></listitem>
675
676<listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
677Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
678isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
679configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
680rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
681/bin).</para></listitem>
682
683<listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
684Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
685/usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
686/usr/bin.</para></listitem>
687
688<listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
689Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>
690
691<listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
692missing &amp;&amp; to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
693instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
694running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>
695
696</itemizedlist>
697
698</sect1>
699
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