%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. First a summary, then a detailed log. Upgraded to: Automake &automake-version; Bash &bash-version; Binutils &binutils-version; Bison &bison-version; Coreutils &coreutils-version; E2fsprogs &e2fsprogs-version; File &file-version; Findutils &findutils-version; Gawk &gawk-version; GCC &gcc-version; Gettext &gettext-version; Glibc &glibc-version; GRUB &grub-version; IANA-Etc &iana-etc-version; Less &less-version; Libtool &libtool-version; Linux &linux-version; Linux-Libc-Headers &linux-libc-headers-version; M4 &m4-version; Man-pages &man-pages-version; Ncurses &ncurses-version; Perl &perl-version; Procps &procps-version; Psmisc &psmisc-version; Readline &readline-version; Shadow &shadow-version; TCL &tcl-version; Udev &udev-version; Vim &vim-version; Zlib &zlib-version; Downgraded to: Groff &groff-version;-&groff-patchlevel; Added: &bzip2-bzgrep-patch; &bzip2-docs-patch; &gawk-segfault-patch; &gcc-specs-patch; Berkeley DB-&db-version; &inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch; &kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch; MAN-DB-&man-db-version; &mktemp-tempfile-patch; &perl-libc-patch; &shadow-configure-patch; &tar-gcc4_fix-patch; &texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch; Removed: gcc-3.4.3-linkonce-1.patch gcc-3.4.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch iproute2-2.6.11-050330-remove_db-1.patch Man-1.6b mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-2.patch perl-5.8.6-libc-1.patch vim-6.3-security_fix-1.patch zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch January 7, 2006 [ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will use mktemp. January 7, 2006 [ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the '-lpthread' overrides. January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually have one. Thanks Randy. January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. January 3, 2006 [matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc configure parameter (fixes bug 1667). January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22. January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18. January 3, 2006 [matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674). December 31, 2005 [ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot, to be repeatable. December 23, 2005 [jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink December 21, 2005 [matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix. December 17, 2005 [matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch December 17, 2005 [matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix. December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9 December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17 December 13, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include, allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes bug 1670). December 12, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix. December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12 December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394. December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0 and readline-5.0 specific patches. December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately, Greg Schafer for the fix. December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix. December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16 December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2 December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27 December 7, 2005 [matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and analysis of affected packages. November 26, 2005 [matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the man-pages package (fixes bug 1660). November 26, 2005 [matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662). November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1. November 26, 2005 [matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages for Shadow's groups binary (thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report). November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14. November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26 November 26, 2005 [manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package. November 24, 2005 [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release. November 23, 2005 [gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML documentation' in chapter 6/sec November 18, 2005 [manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite package. November 17, 2005 [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release. November 16, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared November 15, 2005 [archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option to reflect the new location of the less binary. November 14, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Only install msgfmt from gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host. Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out. November 12, 2005 [matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642). Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes. November 11, 2005 [matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step, as make runs it automatically (bug 1652). November 7, 2005 [matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead of /bin (fixes bug 1643). November 7, 2005 [matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644). November 6, 2005 [matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the toolchain packages (bug 1650). November 6, 2005 [matt]: Install Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy Huntwork for the fix. November 7, 2005 [matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the report and the fix. November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93. November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8. November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6. November 5, 2005 [matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken toolchain (bug 1581). November 3, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13. November 3, 2005 [matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools' testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch. October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13. October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4. October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6. October 31, 2005 [matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635). Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card" and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside of LFS. October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-071 October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11. October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml. October 22, 2005 [archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4. October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16. October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10. October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5. October 15, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09. October 15, 2005 [matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file (fixes bug 1639). October 15, 2005 [matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules file October 9, 2005 [matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638. Thanks to Chris Staub. October 8, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack. October 8, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007. October 7, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2. October 4, 2005 [matt]: Prevent GCC from running the fixincludes script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar and Greg for their contributions on this issue. September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes bug 1629). September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add -v to commands that accept it (fixes bug 1612). September 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08. September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5. September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b. September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r. September 20, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1. September 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary "udevdir=/dev" parameter. September 17, 2005 [matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX and bash compatibility and to recognise "\xhh" syntax as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later. September 15, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount vulnerability. September 8, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2 September 6, 2005 [ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures. September 5, 2005 [ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc. September 4, 2005 [matt]: Add patch to stop cfdisk segfaulting when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2, ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604) September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20 September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25 September 2, 2005 [matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from configure rather than MCONFIG, so adjust the sed in order for the segfault fix to actually work. September 2, 2005 [matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking find to remove GCC's fixed headers. August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604). August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602). August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12 August 30th, 2005 [ken]: Remove sed -i commands from gcc-pass2. August 28th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter six builds for consistency August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: find may fail due to a race condition when deleting files. Remove the && construct in chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621). August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring rules (fixes bug 1622) August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a August 20th, 2005 [matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620). August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068 August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00 August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15 August 18th, 2005 [matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't assume the host's sed supports the -i switch. August 18th, 2005 [ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of filenames. August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600). August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5. August 15th, 2005 [matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer) August 14th, 2005 [ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as advised by Greg Schafer. August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC (fixes bug 1615). August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes bug 1603). August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4. August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609). August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing test (bug 1611). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files (fixes bug 1601). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start of chapter 6. August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed library (Bug 1608) August 7th, 2005 [archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib from BLFS first. August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files. August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest modeline vulnerability. July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation (Randy McMurchy). July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml as it's no longer used in the book July 29th, 2005 [manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc. July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB. The test no longer fails under GCC-4 July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar July 27th, 2005 [matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs). July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Remove groups from the list of programs installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils instead (Randy McMurchy). July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds license and copyright information to the previous version. July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book, so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page document (PDF). Now at least we publically acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors. July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07. July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3. July 22nd, 2005 [manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output. July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer needed. July 19th, 2005 [matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy) July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description of the specs patch. July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent multiple seds from adversely affecting them. July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal of pthread.h and sigthread.h. July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host. July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h. July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters 5 and 6. July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3. July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1 July 15th, 2005 [matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default. Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file where GCC will find it, then alter it. July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with gcc-4.0.1 July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1. July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-063. July 13th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-062. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10. July 6th, 2005 [archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again as it is not needed. July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38. July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-1.6. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to file 4.14. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03. May 24th, 2005 [jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2. May 23nd, 2005 [jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Udev-058. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16. May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97. May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16. April 15, 2005 [jim]: Updated to udev 057. April 14, 2005 [jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02. April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5. April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4. April 12, 2005 [manuel]: Small redaction changes. April 11, 2005 [manuel]: Several tags and text corrections. April 6, 2005 [jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver). Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.