%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via . Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. 2006-09-20 [dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux than in the book to reflect current versions. 2006-09-18 [dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++ in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by Glibc-2.4. 2006-09-17 [dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban for textual suggestions. 2006-09-09 [matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report. [matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13. [matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6. 2006-09-06 [bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab). 2006-08-31 [matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870. 2006-08-24 [matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream. 2006-08-17 [matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly. [matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to Peter Ennis. [matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8. [matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097. [matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28. [matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39. [matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report. [matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report. 2006-08-08 [dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report. 2006-08-05 [matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous versions. 2006-08-03 [manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch. 2006-07-31 [matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17. [matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7. [matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36. [matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81. [matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5. [matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15. [matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1. [matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97. [matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3. [matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17. [matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60. LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.