%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. 2008-01-29 [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.24. Fixes #2137. [matthew] - Upgraded to Findutils-4.2.32. Fixes #2136. [matthew] - Upgraded to Automake-1.10.1. Fixes #2132. 2008-01-22 [matthew] - Replaced Util-Linux-2.12r, with Util-Linux-NG-2.13.1. Fixes #2077. [matthew] - Upgraded to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes #2131. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.76. Fixes #2129. [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.14. Fixes #2128. 2008-01-19 [matthew] - Add Perl to the list of host requirements, as it is required by Glibc. Thanks to Ben Collver for the report. Fixes #2112. [matthew] - Mention strace as another means of logging installed files, and correct the URL of the Linux Standard Base specifications. Fixes #2073 and #2130. 2008-01-04 [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. [matthew] - Upgraded to Less-418. Fixes #2124. [matthew] - Upgraded to File-4.23. Fixes #2125. [matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.4. Fixes #2123. 2007-12-23 [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Readline. Fixes #2122. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.74. Fixes #2119. [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.12. Fixes #2118. [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Bash. Fixes #2121. 2007-12-08 [matthew] - Upgraded to latest upstream fixes for Vim. Fixes #2108. [matthew] - Upgraded to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes #2074. [matthew] - Upgraded to Psmisc-22.6. Fixes #2104. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-Pages-2.70. Fixes #2110. [matthew] - Upgraded to Man-DB-2.5.0. Fixes #2109. [matthew] - Upgraded to Linux-2.6.23.9. Fixes #2106. [matthew] - Upgraded to Less-416. Fixes #2105. [matthew] - Upgraded to Gettext-0.17. Fixes #2103. [matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around. Fixes #2107. Thanks to Erik-Jan for the report. [matthew] - Removed the modifications to Gawk's config.h as Gawk-3.1.6 fixes the bug that they were working around. Fixes #2107. Thanks to Erik-Jan for the report. [matthew] - Upgraded to E2fsprogs-1.40.3. Fixes #2116. 2007-11-25 [bdubbs] - Fixed test for Debian binutils. 2007-10-29 [bdubbs] - Removed obsolete note from Creating Symlinks section about continuation lines in udev rules. Changed dailout group to uucp for udev rule compatability. [matthew] - Upgrade to the latest upstream patches for Vim. [matthew] - Add a patch to fix a segfault in usb_id. [matthew] - Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.16. Fixes #2084. [matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.19. Fixes #2090. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.67. Fixes #2078. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.23.1. Fixes #2088. [matthew] - Upgrade to Less-409. Fixes #2087. [matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.23. Fixes #2091. [matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.7. Fixes #2095. [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.2. Fixes #2089. [matthew] - Upgrade to Gawk-3.1.6. Fixes #2098. [matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.21. Fixes #2086. 2007-10-06 [jhuntwork] - Made book buildable by powerpc. [jhuntwork] - Moved GCC's bootstrap to pass 2. 2007-10-05 [bdubbs] - Added -mtune to Glibc CFLAGS. 2007-10-04 [jhuntwork] - Fixed grep syntax in Glibc. 2007-09-25 [manuel] - More updates in dependencies list. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 2007-09-23 [manuel] - Updated dependencies list. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 2007-09-21 [manuel] - Fixed glibc-libidn tarball extension. 2007-09-18 [manuel] - Added remap attributes to userinput tags in packages pages to help adding package manager support and other extensions into jhalfs. Made all testsuite commands screen blocks for consistency. 2007-09-16 [manuel] - Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 2007-09-15 [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Vim. [matthew] - Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes #2055. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Readline. Fixes #2068. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.64. Fixes #2061. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.6. Fixes #2070. [jhuntwork] - Remove --with-arch for GCC and adjust CFLAGS for Glibc instead. Thanks to Robert Connolly and Dan Nicholson for investigating how best to adjust CFLAGS, and Greg Schafer for showing the technical benefits of using CFLAGS with Glibc. [matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes #2051. [matthew] - Add latest upstream patches for Bash. Fixes #2067. 2007-09-07 [manuel] - Added sect1info metainformation blocks to packages pages to help adding package manager support into jhalfs. 2007-09-03 [jhuntwork] - Remove -m64 from binutils and gcc pass 1. Tests show that the 32-bit binary versions still produce the wanted 64-bit code. 2007-08-31 [jhuntwork] - Update explanatory text for the use of -m64. [jhuntwork] - Update explanatory text for GCC's --with-arch parameter. [jhuntwork] - Add --disable-bootstrap flags to GCC pass 2 and chapter 6 GCC, to achieve traditional LFS build methods with GCC 4.2.1. 2007-08-30 [jhuntwork] - Upgraded to FSF Binutils version 2.18. [jhuntwork] - Use --with-arch=i486 only for x86. Also force '-m64' for 64-bit builds. Lastly, use 'make' instead of 'make bootstrap' on gcc pass 1. The bootstrap is now default. 2007-08-20 [jhuntwork] - Use --with-arch=i486 on GCC instead of -march=i486 with Glibc. 2007-08-11 [jhuntwork] - Add -march=i486 to Glibc for x86 builds as default of i386 is incompatible. [jhuntwork] - Make the sed to Glibc's test-installation.pl file architecture independent. 2007-08-07 [jhuntwork] - Fix Perl-5.8.8 to build with GCC-4.2.1. Have makedepend.SH check for 'command-line' as well as 'command line'. [jhuntwork] - Fix Coreutils-6.9 and Gzip-1.3.12 to work with Glibc-2.6.1. Rename the futimens function. [jhuntwork] - Use a loop, find and sed instead of the gcc specs patch [jhuntwork] - Upgraded to Glibc 2.6.1 [jhuntwork] - Add --disable-shared to gcc pass 1. Requires adding a libgcc_eh.a -> libgcc.a symlink. [jhuntwork] - Since we're using HJL Binutils, add m4, bison and flex back to chatper 5. [jhuntwork] - Upgraded to GCC 4.2.1 [jhuntwork] - Upgraded to HJL Binutils-2.17.50.0.18 [jhuntwork] - Update commands to work with both x86 and x86_64 [jhuntwork] - Use '-n' when creating /tools/lib64 symlink. Will fail if that directory or symlink already exists, instead of creating an unwanted lib -> lib symlink inside of /tools/lib. Fix from Dan Nicholson. LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.