1 | <sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
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2 | <title>Changelog</title>
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3 |
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4 | <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
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5 |
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6 | <itemizedlist>
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7 |
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8 | <listitem><para>Updated to:
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10 | <itemizedlist>
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11 |
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12 | <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.3</para></listitem>
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13 | <listitem><para>autoconf-2.52</para></listitem>
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14 | <listitem><para>automake-1.5</para></listitem>
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15 | <listitem><para>binutils-2.11.2</para></listitem>
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16 | <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.23</para></listitem>
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17 | <listitem><para>file-3.36</para></listitem>
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18 | <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
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19 | <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.39</para></listitem>
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20 | <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.4</para></listitem>
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21 | <listitem><para>groff-1.17.2</para></listitem>
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22 | <listitem><para>linux-2.4.8</para></listitem>
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23 | <listitem><para>man-pages-1.39</para></listitem>
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24 | <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.7</para></listitem>
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25 | <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.81</para></listitem>
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26 | <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11h</para></listitem>
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27 |
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28 | </itemizedlist>
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29 |
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30 | </para></listitem>
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31 |
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32 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter6 - Kbd: Removed the
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33 | removal of the defkeymap file. Instead just make install it, added a
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34 | note that loadkeys -d doesn't work properly and leave it with
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35 | that..</para></listitem>
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36 |
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37 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Binutils:
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38 | removed the -e options to 'make' which aren't necessary anymore. They
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39 | were removed in chapter 5 already, but forgotten to commit changes to
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40 | chapter 6.</para></listitem>
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41 |
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42 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bin86: Added a
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43 | note that this package may not be needed if lilo isn't
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44 | used.</para></listitem>
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45 |
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46 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Added a note
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47 | that nothing in LFS depends on Ed (except for patch, but ed formatted
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48 | patch files are very rare these days), so you can safely skip
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49 | it.</para></listitem>
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50 |
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51 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Various updates to the text
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52 | through the entire book (mostly grammatical fixes and
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53 | such).</para></listitem>
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54 |
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55 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Texinfo: Added
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56 | the explanation of the make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex
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57 | command.</para></listitem>
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58 |
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59 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-M4: Removed the note
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60 | about linking m4 statically outside of chroot. LFS doesn't use
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61 | Glibc-2.1.x anymore, so this claim may not be true. It'll have to be
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62 | tested again.</para></listitem>
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63 |
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64 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6+*: Removed the
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65 | -f flags from cp commands. cp's behaviour has changed with
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66 | fileutils-4.1, doing something totally different than
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67 | expected.</para></listitem>
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68 |
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69 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6: Removed some
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70 | unnecessary line breaks (so a command continues on a next
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71 | line).</para></listitem>
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72 |
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73 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5: The former two sed
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74 | operations are combined into one sed operation now.</para></listitem>
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75 |
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76 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Preface: Inserted the
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77 | currrent LFS website's introduction into "Who wants to read this
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78 | book".</para></listitem>
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79 |
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80 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Synchronized the
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81 | changelog, http and ftp mirrors with the LFS website.</para></listitem>
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82 |
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83 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Glibc and Bash:
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84 | simplified the installation instructions. We no longer exit chroot to
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85 | finish the installation. This _may_ not work properly if your host
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86 | distribution is an old 2.0.x based kernel, but we have no way of testing
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87 | this at the moment. We'll deal with that when bug reports come
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88 | in.</para></listitem>
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89 |
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90 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Moved rebooting into LFS from
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91 | chapter 8 to chapter 9, after we run that find
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92 | command.</para></listitem>
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93 |
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94 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Updated the find command in
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95 | chapter 9.</para></listitem>
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96 |
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97 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [markh]: upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.23 and
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98 | MAKEDEV-1.3.</para></listitem>
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99 |
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100 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Added dependency lists for
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101 | all installed packages. You now can see which programs from which
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102 | packages you need in order to compile and install a
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103 | package.</para></listitem>
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104 |
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105 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [markh]: After a discussion on #lfs,
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106 | we've downgraded the book to linux-2.4.8 due to performance problems
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107 | with 2.4.9.</para></listitem>
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108 |
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109 | <listitem><para>August 26th, 2001 [markh]: Moved appendix c --> appendix d and
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110 | appendix b --> appendix c in order to create room for the dependency
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111 | information to go into appendix b.</para></listitem>
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112 |
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113 | <listitem><para>After much testing and discussing, it's been decided to
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114 | downgrade to gcc-2.95.3 for the time being, until problems with the new
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115 | gcc-3.0 version have been fixed.</para></listitem>
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116 |
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117 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: sed commands for bzip2 and mawk static
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118 | compiles have been replaced with a simpler flag to gcc.</para></listitem>
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119 |
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120 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: A sed for fileutils-4.1 static has been added to
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121 | avoid Segmentation Fault problems on glibc-2.2.3 systems.</para></listitem>
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122 |
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123 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Binutils doens't require us passing -e to
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124 | make in order for LDFLAGS=-static to work properly.</para></listitem>
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125 |
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126 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: GCC isn't statically linked anymore by using
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127 | make -e LDFLAGS=-static, but by make BOOT_LDFLAGS=-static.</para></listitem>
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128 |
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129 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed kernel patch for gcc-3.0
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130 | compilation</para></listitem>
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131 |
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132 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added gcc-patch to fix re_max_failure
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133 | compile problems</para></listitem>
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134 |
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135 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added missing chown root.root
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136 | $LFS/usr/include/linux to kernel installation </para></listitem>
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137 |
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138 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5 & 6: Changed tar patch to use -j for bzip2
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139 | files instead of -y in order to be compatible with next tar release. Also
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140 | renamed patch file to tar-1.13.patch</para></listitem>
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141 |
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142 | <listitem><para>Chapters 5 & 6: Added a new patch for gcc-2.95.3
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143 | which fixes various problems such as the weak symbol
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144 | bug.</para></listitem>
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145 |
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146 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Bzip2 and shadowutils static libraries
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147 | are now put in /usr/lib instead of /lib. There are now also links
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148 | from /usr/lib to their dynamic libraries in /lib to enable the linker to
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149 | still find the dynamic versions.</para></listitem>
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150 |
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151 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: ncurses patch totally
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152 | removed. Static libraries now moved to /usr/lib and libcurses.a symlink
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153 | created manually. A symlink is also created from /usr/lib to the
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154 | dynamic libraries in /lib so that the linker still sees them.</para></listitem>
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155 |
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156 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Yacc script in bison page now uses exec bison
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157 | which replaces the shell.</para></listitem>
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158 |
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159 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Util-linux sed command has been replaced with a
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160 | flag to make.</para></listitem>
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161 |
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162 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Man patch replaced with
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163 | sed command.</para></listitem>
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164 |
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165 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed shadow-utils patch in favour of a sed
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166 | command</para></listitem>
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167 |
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168 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed sysvinit patch in favour of a sed
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169 | command.</para></listitem>
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170 |
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171 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed the Groff command explanation
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172 | regarding CXXFLAGS which has been made obsolete with the update
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173 | to groff-1.17.1</para></listitem>
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174 |
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175 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Moved the net-tools installation until after
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176 | sh-utils so that net-tools can replace sh-utils's
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177 | /bin/hostname.</para></listitem>
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178 |
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179 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: After installing Glibc, run exec /bin/bash
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180 | --login instead of exiting and re-entering the chroot'ed
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181 | environment.</para></listitem>
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182 |
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183 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Changed $* into "$@" in the functions and rc
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184 | scripts. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks.</para></listitem>
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185 |
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186 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added print_error_msg from the rcS script as
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187 | it appears in the rc script as well.</para></listitem>
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188 |
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189 | </itemizedlist>
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190 |
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191 | <para>3.0-pre4 - June 22nd, 2001</para>
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192 |
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193 | <itemizedlist>
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194 |
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195 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Reordered the installations
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196 | alphabetically.</para></listitem>
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197 |
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198 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Moved the installations of ed and
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199 | patch into their alphabetical positions.</para></listitem>
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200 |
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201 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added [ ATTN ] warning message to
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202 | the functions script. When you attemp to start a service that's
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203 | already running or stop a service that's not running, it'll not
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204 | print FAILED anymore but [ ATTN ] along with "Already running"
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205 | or "Not running".</para></listitem>
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206 |
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207 | <listitem><para>Chapter 9: Renamed the network-scripts
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208 | directory in nic-config.</para></listitem>
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209 |
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210 | </itemizedlist>
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211 |
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212 | <para>3.0-pre3 - May 12th, 2001</para>
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213 |
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214 | <itemizedlist>
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215 |
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216 | <listitem><para>Added numerous FHS compliance notes. These
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217 | instructions can be followed if one wishes to build a fully
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218 | FHS-compliant system.</para></listitem>
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219 |
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220 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Updated the directory list to be more
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221 | FHS compliant. Mainly this meant adding the opt directories and
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222 | removing /usr/tmp and /usr/local/tmp</para></listitem>
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223 |
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224 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: We now copy the kernel include directories
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225 | instead of linking to them. This is theoretically safer if we plan on
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226 | upgrading the kernel.</para></listitem>
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227 |
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228 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Removed fileutils-patch. After upgrading
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229 | to fileutils-4.1 the patch isn't needed anymore.</para></listitem>
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230 |
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231 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Put back the instructions on how to
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232 | copy/remove the old NSS library files, in case the original distribution
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233 | uses glibc-2.0.x.</para></listitem>
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234 |
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235 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added the notice about an old version
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236 | of install-info.</para></listitem>
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237 |
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238 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed the installation of a static
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239 | gettext.</para></listitem>
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240 |
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241 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed bin86's installation from
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242 | "make PREFIX=/usr install" to "make INSTALL_OPTS="-m 755"
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243 | PREFIX=/usr install". This will prevent install from invoking strip -s
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244 | on the files. This fails because a couple of the installed files are
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245 | shell scripts rather than programs, so they can't be stripped.</para></listitem>
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246 |
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247 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed the ld.so section since we
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248 | only used the man pages and replaced it with a patch to man-pages.</para></listitem>
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249 |
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250 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7+8: Moved the creation of /etc/fstab
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251 | to chapter 8.</para></listitem>
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252 |
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253 | <listitem><para>Appendix A: Added missing descriptions of frcode,
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254 | code and bigram in the findutils-4.1 package.</para></listitem>
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255 |
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256 | </itemizedlist>
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257 |
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258 | <para>3.0-pre2 - April 14th, 2001</para>
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259 |
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260 | <itemizedlist>
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261 |
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262 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Simplified ln commands.</para></listitem>
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263 |
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264 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed prefix=$LFS/usr from tar's
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265 | make install.</para></listitem>
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266 |
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267 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Removed --disable-nls from configuration
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268 | of programs that don't need it (bash, diffutils, gzip, sed,
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269 | m4).</para></listitem>
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270 |
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271 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Changed from "cd dir && make"
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272 | to "make -C dir" (gettext-static, sysvinit).</para></listitem>
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273 |
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274 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Beautified the static link process
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275 | for mawk.</para></listitem>
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276 |
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277 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Changed the links we create during
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278 | gcc-installation to $LFS/usr/bin/cpp.</para></listitem>
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279 |
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280 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed the procps installation
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281 | from sed'ing to an easier way.</para></listitem>
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282 |
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283 | <listitem><para> Chapter 6: Changed all "rm file && ln -s dest
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284 | file" into "ln -sf file" (in glibc, bzip2 and gzip
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285 | installations).</para></listitem>
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286 |
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287 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Added a sed to fix a problem during
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288 | glibc-installation. pt_chown can not be installed setuid root,
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289 | because "root" is not known by glibc yet (kind of hen and
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290 | egg-problem).</para></listitem>
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291 |
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292 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed consoledata/tools to kbd, which
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293 | is more actively developed, and less of a pain to install.</para></listitem>
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294 |
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295 | <listitem><para>Appendix A: Added the description of the Netkit-base
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296 | and Net-tools packages.</para></listitem>
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297 |
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298 | </itemizedlist>
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299 |
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300 | <para>3.0-pre1 - February 27th, 2001</para>
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301 |
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302 | <itemizedlist>
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303 |
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304 | <listitem><para>Converted the SGML source to XML.</para></listitem>
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305 |
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306 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Tell the user to use cfdisk rather than
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307 | fdisk. The fdisk man page recommends cfdisk over fdisk because
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308 | it's more stable.</para></listitem>
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309 |
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310 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Changed the wording to make it more general
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311 | as ext2 no longer is the only used file system. Reiser for example is
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312 | often used too now.</para></listitem>
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313 |
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314 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo and partially
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315 | gettext to faciliate the move of Glibc from Chapter 5
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316 | to Chapter 6.</para></listitem>
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317 |
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318 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added Makedev to chapter 5. We don't create
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319 | the device files here, only copy the MAKEDEV script and make a temp
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320 | copy which will be used to create device files. This second file
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321 | (MAKEDEV-temp) doesn't contain user names and group names but only user
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322 | id's and group id's. We need a few device files to get Glibc installed,
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323 | but before GLibc is installed user and group names are not recognized yet;
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324 | only the numeric id's. This requires a slightly modified MAKEDEV script
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325 | which will be generated by patching the original one. This patching is done
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326 | here in chapter 5. Also, fixed the explanations on both
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327 | makedev installations.</para></listitem>
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328 |
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329 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Recommended to install all the software
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330 | while logged in (or su'ed to) user root.</para></listitem>
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331 |
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332 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is
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333 | needed to compile the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems
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334 | (such as the upcoming LFS-3.0 system).</para></listitem>
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335 |
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336 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Upgraded from gcc-2.95.2 to
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337 | gcc-2.95.2.1</para></listitem>
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338 |
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339 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Moved Glibc from chapter 5 to
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340 | chapter 6</para></listitem>
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341 |
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342 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils
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343 | to libexecdir=/bin</para></listitem>
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344 |
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345 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Updated Glibc installation instructions.
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346 | 'configparms' file creation has been deleted. No need to pick a compiler
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347 | (either distro's native or the /usr/local/gcc2952/bin/gcc one);
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348 | we're in chroot now so we'll use the one we have</para></listitem>
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349 |
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350 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Only copy the man pages from the
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351 | ld.so package. We don't need the ldconfig and ldd programs anymore;
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352 | Glibc-2.2.1 comes with good working versions.</para></listitem>
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353 |
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354 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Added the creation of the lex symlink
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355 | to the flex installation.</para></listitem>
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356 |
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357 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed $* into "$@" in the yacc script
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358 | during bison's installation. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments
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359 | with blanks. </para></listitem>
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360 |
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361 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Fixed the man page installation during
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362 | console-tools' installation.</para></listitem>
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363 |
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364 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: When entering chroot the $TERM variable
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365 | inside chroot is set properly. This is accomplished by: chroot ...
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366 | -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM...</para></listitem>
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367 |
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368 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Merged the different sulogin lines from
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369 | the inittab file into one line.</para></listitem>
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370 |
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371 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Fixed the delays in the killproc function
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372 | in the functions script. Now after kill, first check PIDs, then
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373 | sleep 2 if needed. More details can be read in the comments
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374 | in the script itself.</para></listitem>
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375 |
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376 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added the explanation how the runlevels
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377 | and boot process works when using the LFS scripts.</para></listitem>
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378 |
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379 | <listitem><para>Chapter 10: Added this chapter. It contains "thanks
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380 | and good luck"notes and suggest creating the /etc/lfs-&version;
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381 | file</para></listitem>
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382 |
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383 | </itemizedlist>
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384 |
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385 | </sect1>
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386 |
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