%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. 2008-01-22 [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. 2007-09-25 [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] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes #2018. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch, 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. [jhuntwork] - Upgrade to GCC-4.2.1. Fixes #2002. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for preparing a discrete patch. [matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.6.19. Fixes #2051. [matthew] - Upgrade to Binutils-2.18. Fixes #2069. [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. LFS 6.3 released August 28, 2007.