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Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC and changed their format.
Resolves ticket #1768.

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11 <title>Changelog</title>
12
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
17
18 <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
19 book.</para>
20
21 <itemizedlist>
22 <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26 <listitem>
27 <para>Date</para>
28 <itemizedlist>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 </itemizedlist>
36 </listitem>
37-->
38
39 <listitem>
40 <para>May 2, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC
44 and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
48 it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
49 </listitem>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
58 </listitem>
59 </itemizedlist>
60 </listitem>
61
62 <listitem>
63 <para>May 1, 2006</para>
64 <itemizedlist>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
67 Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
68 and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
72 re-install its binaries.</para>
73 </listitem>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
76 </listitem>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
79 udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
80 program.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 </itemizedlist>
83 </listitem>
84
85 <listitem>
86 <para>April 27, 2006</para>
87 <itemizedlist>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
90 acknowledgements.</para>
91 </listitem>
92 </itemizedlist>
93 </listitem>
94
95 <listitem>
96 <para>April 23, 2006</para>
97 <itemizedlist>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
100 ownewrship. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
101 </listitem>
102 </itemizedlist>
103 </listitem>
104
105 <listitem>
106 <para>April 22, 2006</para>
107 <itemizedlist>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
110 wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
111 ticket #1779.</para>
112 </listitem>
113 </itemizedlist>
114 </listitem>
115
116 <listitem>
117 <para>April 21, 2006</para>
118 <itemizedlist>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
121 required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
122 for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for review the wording.</para>
123 </listitem>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
126 R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
127 </listitem>
128 </itemizedlist>
129 </listitem>
130
131 <listitem>
132 <para>April 20, 2006</para>
133 <itemizedlist>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
136 Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
137 </listitem>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
140 is required on the host system.</para>
141 </listitem>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
144 for the patch.</para>
145 </listitem>
146 </itemizedlist>
147 </listitem>
148
149 <listitem>
150 <para>April 19, 2006</para>
151 <itemizedlist>
152 <listitem>
153 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
154 software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
155 and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
156 Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
157 </listitem>
158 </itemizedlist>
159 </listitem>
160
161 <listitem>
162 <para>April 18, 2006</para>
163 <itemizedlist>
164 <listitem>
165 <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
166 Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
167 build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
168 information is complete enough at this point to close out the
169 long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
170 and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
171 </listitem>
172 </itemizedlist>
173 </listitem>
174
175 <listitem>
176 <para>April 15, 2006</para>
177 <itemizedlist>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
180 </listitem>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
183 that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
184 </listitem>
185 </itemizedlist>
186 </listitem>
187
188 <listitem>
189 <para>April 14, 2006</para>
190 <itemizedlist>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
193 </listitem>
194 <listitem>
195 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
196 command changes.</para>
197 </listitem>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
200 replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
201 inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
202 Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
203 </listitem>
204 </itemizedlist>
205 </listitem>
206
207 <listitem>
208 <para>April 13, 2006</para>
209 <itemizedlist>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
212 removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
213 </listitem>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
216 </listitem>
217 <listitem>
218 <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
219 Shadow.</para>
220 </listitem>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
223 </listitem>
224 </itemizedlist>
225 </listitem>
226
227 <listitem>
228 <para>April 12, 2006</para>
229 <itemizedlist>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
232 Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
233 </listitem>
234 <listitem>
235 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
236 Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
237 convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
238 Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
239 </listitem>
240 <listitem>
241 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
242 in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
243 the symlink we used to create.</para>
244 </listitem>
245 </itemizedlist>
246 </listitem>
247
248 <listitem>
249 <para>April 11, 2006</para>
250 <itemizedlist>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
253 </listitem>
254 </itemizedlist>
255 </listitem>
256
257 <listitem>
258 <para>April 8, 2006</para>
259 <itemizedlist>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
262 in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
263 programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
264 slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
265 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
266 </listitem>
267 </itemizedlist>
268 </listitem>
269
270 <listitem>
271 <para>April 6, 2006</para>
272 <itemizedlist>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
275 links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
276 </listitem>
277 <listitem>
278 <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
279 </listitem>
280 </itemizedlist>
281 </listitem>
282
283 <listitem>
284 <para>April 2, 2006</para>
285 <itemizedlist>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
288 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
289 mounting of kernel filesystems before pkgmgt page and rewrote the page
290 to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel filesystems while
291 outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering chroot and remounting
292 kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list of dirs created in
293 chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
294 </listitem>
295 </itemizedlist>
296 </listitem>
297
298 <listitem>
299 <para>March 30, 2006</para>
300 <itemizedlist>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
303 Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
304 </listitem>
305 <listitem>
306 <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
307 and Udev-088.</para>
308 </listitem>
309 </itemizedlist>
310 </listitem>
311
312 <listitem>
313 <para>March 29, 2006</para>
314 <itemizedlist>
315 <listitem>
316 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
317 to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
318 the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
319 </listitem>
320 </itemizedlist>
321 </listitem>
322
323 <listitem>
324 <para>March 22, 2006</para>
325 <itemizedlist>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>[archaic] - Updated to
328 lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
329 </listitem>
330 </itemizedlist>
331 </listitem>
332
333 <listitem>
334 <para>March 21, 2006</para>
335 <itemizedlist>
336 <listitem>
337 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
338 hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
339 udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
340 </para>
341 </listitem>
342 </itemizedlist>
343 </listitem>
344
345 <listitem>
346 <para>March 18, 2006</para>
347 <itemizedlist>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
350 is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
351 patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
352 </listitem>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
355 tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
356 #1713.</para>
357 </listitem>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
360 </listitem>
361 <listitem>
362 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
363 </listitem>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
366 </listitem>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
369 </listitem>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
372 </listitem>
373 <listitem>
374 <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
375 patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
376 installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
377 </listitem>
378 </itemizedlist>
379 </listitem>
380
381 <listitem>
382 <para>March 11, 2006</para>
383 <itemizedlist>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
386 </listitem>
387 </itemizedlist>
388 </listitem>
389
390 <listitem>
391 <para>March 8, 2006</para>
392 <itemizedlist>
393 <listitem>
394 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
395 </listitem>
396 <listitem>
397 <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
398 does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
399 Patrakov.</para>
400 </listitem>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
403 </listitem>
404 <listitem>
405 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
406 </listitem>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
409 present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
410 </listitem>
411 </itemizedlist>
412 </listitem>
413
414 <listitem>
415 <para>March 7, 2006</para>
416 <itemizedlist>
417 <listitem>
418 <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
419 upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
420 device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
421 </listitem>
422 <listitem>
423 <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
424 LFS-style patch.</para>
425 </listitem>
426 </itemizedlist>
427 </listitem>
428
429 <listitem>
430 <para>March 3, 2006</para>
431 <itemizedlist>
432 <listitem>
433 <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
434 to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
435 </listitem>
436 </itemizedlist>
437 </listitem>
438
439 <listitem>
440 <para>March 1, 2006</para>
441 <itemizedlist>
442 <listitem>
443 <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
444 symlinks.</para>
445 </listitem>
446 <listitem>
447 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
448 help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
449 </listitem>
450 </itemizedlist>
451 </listitem>
452
453 <listitem>
454 <para>February 27, 2006</para>
455 <itemizedlist>
456 <listitem>
457 <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
458 upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
459 </listitem>
460 </itemizedlist>
461 </listitem>
462
463 <listitem>
464 <para>February 20, 2006</para>
465 <itemizedlist>
466 <listitem>
467 <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
468 keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
469 expanded by the shell.</para>
470 </listitem>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
473 </listitem>
474 <listitem>
475 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
476 </listitem>
477 </itemizedlist>
478 </listitem>
479
480 <listitem>
481 <para>February 19, 2006</para>
482 <itemizedlist>
483 <listitem>
484 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
485 to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
486 </listitem>
487 <listitem>
488 <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
489 every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
490 </listitem>
491 <listitem>
492 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
493 </listitem>
494 <listitem>
495 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
496 </listitem>
497 <listitem>
498 <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
499 --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
500 for the report and the fix.</para>
501 </listitem>
502 <listitem>
503 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
504 </listitem>
505 <listitem>
506 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
507 </listitem>
508 <listitem>
509 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
510 </listitem>
511 <listitem>
512 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
513 </listitem>
514 <listitem>
515 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
516 </listitem>
517 <listitem>
518 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
519 </listitem>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
522 vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
523 </listitem>
524 <listitem>
525 <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
526 Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
527 </listitem>
528 <listitem>
529 <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
530 instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
531 &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
532 <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
533 can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
534 </listitem>
535 </itemizedlist>
536 </listitem>
537
538 <listitem>
539 <para>February 10, 2006</para>
540 <itemizedlist>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
543 changes.</para>
544 </listitem>
545 </itemizedlist>
546 </listitem>
547
548 <listitem>
549 <para>February 8, 2006</para>
550 <itemizedlist>
551 <listitem>
552 <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
553 reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
554 module loading.</para>
555 </listitem>
556 </itemizedlist>
557 </listitem>
558
559 <listitem>
560 <para>February 3, 2006</para>
561 <itemizedlist>
562 <listitem>
563 <para>[matthew] - Create the
564 <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
565 can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
566 </para>
567 </listitem>
568 <listitem>
569 <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
570 </listitem>
571 <listitem>
572 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
573 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
574 </listitem>
575 <listitem>
576 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
577 download.</para>
578 </listitem>
579 <listitem>
580 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
581 </listitem>
582 </itemizedlist>
583 </listitem>
584
585 <listitem>
586 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
587 <itemizedlist>
588 <listitem>
589 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
590 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
591 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
592 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
593 </listitem>
594 <listitem>
595 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript
596 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
597 </listitem>
598 <listitem>
599 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
600 </listitem>
601 </itemizedlist>
602 </listitem>
603
604 <listitem>
605 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
606 <itemizedlist>
607 <listitem>
608 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
609 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
610 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
611 </listitem>
612 <listitem>
613 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
614 Staub.</para>
615 </listitem>
616 <listitem>
617 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
618 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
619 </listitem>
620 </itemizedlist>
621 </listitem>
622
623 <listitem>
624 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
625 <itemizedlist>
626 <listitem>
627 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
628 </listitem>
629 <listitem>
630 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
631 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
632 </listitem>
633 </itemizedlist>
634 </listitem>
635
636 <listitem>
637 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
638 <itemizedlist>
639 <listitem>
640 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
641 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
642 </listitem>
643 <listitem>
644 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
645 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
646 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
647 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
648 </listitem>
649 <listitem>
650 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
651 section.</para>
652 </listitem>
653 </itemizedlist>
654 </listitem>
655
656 <listitem>
657 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
658 <itemizedlist>
659 <listitem>
660 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
661 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
662 </listitem>
663 <listitem>
664 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
665 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
666 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
667 </listitem>
668 <listitem>
669 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
670 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
671 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
672 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
673 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
674 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
675 issue.</para>
676 </listitem>
677 <listitem>
678 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
679 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
680 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
681 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
682 </listitem>
683 <listitem>
684 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
685 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
686 </listitem>
687 </itemizedlist>
688 </listitem>
689
690 <listitem>
691 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
692 <itemizedlist>
693 <listitem>
694 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
695 </listitem>
696 </itemizedlist>
697 </listitem>
698
699 <listitem>
700 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
701 <itemizedlist>
702 <listitem>
703 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
704 </listitem>
705 <listitem>
706 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
707 </listitem>
708 <listitem>
709 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
710 </listitem>
711 <listitem>
712 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
713 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
714 </listitem>
715 <listitem>
716 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
717 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
718 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
719 </listitem>
720 </itemizedlist>
721 </listitem>
722
723 <listitem>
724 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
725 <itemizedlist>
726 <listitem>
727 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
728 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
729 it out.</para>
730 </listitem>
731 </itemizedlist>
732 </listitem>
733
734 <listitem>
735 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
736 <itemizedlist>
737 <listitem>
738 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
739 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
740 </listitem>
741 </itemizedlist>
742 </listitem>
743
744 <listitem>
745 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
746 <itemizedlist>
747 <listitem>
748 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
749 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
750 to Greg Schafer.</para>
751 </listitem>
752 <listitem>
753 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
754 gccbug.</para>
755 </listitem>
756 </itemizedlist>
757 </listitem>
758
759 <listitem>
760 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
761 <itemizedlist>
762 <listitem>
763 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
764 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
765 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
766 for explaining this.</para>
767 </listitem>
768 <listitem>
769 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
770 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
771 </listitem>
772 <listitem>
773 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
774 use mktemp.</para>
775 </listitem>
776 <listitem>
777 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
778 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
779 Randy McMurchy.</para>
780 </listitem>
781 </itemizedlist>
782 </listitem>
783
784 <listitem>
785 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
786 <itemizedlist>
787 <listitem>
788 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
789 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
790 </listitem>
791 <listitem>
792 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
793 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
794 </listitem>
795 </itemizedlist>
796 </listitem>
797
798 <listitem>
799 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
800 <itemizedlist>
801 <listitem>
802 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
803 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
804 </listitem>
805 <listitem>
806 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
807 </listitem>
808 <listitem>
809 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
810 </listitem>
811 <listitem>
812 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
813 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
814 </listitem>
815 </itemizedlist>
816 </listitem>
817
818 <listitem>
819 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
820 <itemizedlist>
821 <listitem>
822 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
823 to be repeatable.</para>
824 </listitem>
825 </itemizedlist>
826 </listitem>
827
828 <listitem>
829 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
830 <itemizedlist>
831 <listitem>
832 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
833 </listitem>
834 </itemizedlist>
835 </listitem>
836
837 <listitem>
838 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
839 <itemizedlist>
840 <listitem>
841 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
842 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
843 </listitem>
844 </itemizedlist>
845 </listitem>
846
847 <listitem>
848 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
849 <itemizedlist>
850 <listitem>
851 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
852 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
853 </listitem>
854 <listitem>
855 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
856 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
857 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
858 </listitem>
859 <listitem>
860 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
861 </listitem>
862 <listitem>
863 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
864 </listitem>
865 </itemizedlist>
866 </listitem>
867
868 <listitem>
869 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
870 <itemizedlist>
871 <listitem>
872 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
873 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
874 </listitem>
875 </itemizedlist>
876 </listitem>
877
878 <listitem>
879 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
880 <itemizedlist>
881 <listitem>
882 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
883 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
884 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
885 bug 1670).</para>
886 </listitem>
887 </itemizedlist>
888 </listitem>
889
890 <listitem>
891 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
892 <itemizedlist>
893 <listitem>
894 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
895 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
896 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
897 </listitem>
898 </itemizedlist>
899 </listitem>
900
901 <listitem>
902 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
903 <itemizedlist>
904 <listitem>
905 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
906 </listitem>
907 <listitem>
908 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
909 </listitem>
910 <listitem>
911 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
912 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
913 </listitem>
914 <listitem>
915 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
916 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
917 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
918 </listitem>
919 <listitem>
920 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
921 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
922 </listitem>
923 </itemizedlist>
924 </listitem>
925
926 <listitem>
927 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
928 <itemizedlist>
929 <listitem>
930 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
931 </listitem>
932 <listitem>
933 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
934 </para>
935 </listitem>
936 <listitem>
937 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
938 </listitem>
939 </itemizedlist>
940 </listitem>
941
942 <listitem>
943 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
944 <itemizedlist>
945 <listitem>
946 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
947 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
948 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
949 </listitem>
950 </itemizedlist>
951 </listitem>
952
953 <listitem>
954 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
955 <itemizedlist>
956 <listitem>
957 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
958 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
959 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
960 </listitem>
961 <listitem>
962 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
963 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
964 </listitem>
965 <listitem>
966 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
967 </listitem>
968 <listitem>
969 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
970 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
971 McMurchy for the report).</para>
972 </listitem>
973 <listitem>
974 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
975 </listitem>
976 <listitem>
977 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
978 </listitem>
979 <listitem>
980 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
981 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
982 </listitem>
983 </itemizedlist>
984 </listitem>
985
986 <listitem>
987 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
988 <itemizedlist>
989 <listitem>
990 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
991 </listitem>
992 </itemizedlist>
993 </listitem>
994
995 <listitem>
996 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
997 <itemizedlist>
998 <listitem>
999 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
1000 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
1001 </listitem>
1002 </itemizedlist>
1003 </listitem>
1004
1005 <listitem>
1006 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
1007 <itemizedlist>
1008 <listitem>
1009 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
1010 package.</para>
1011 </listitem>
1012 </itemizedlist>
1013 </listitem>
1014
1015 <listitem>
1016 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
1017 <itemizedlist>
1018 <listitem>
1019 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
1020 </listitem>
1021 </itemizedlist>
1022 </listitem>
1023
1024 <listitem>
1025 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
1026 <itemizedlist>
1027 <listitem>
1028 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
1029 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
1030 </listitem>
1031 </itemizedlist>
1032 </listitem>
1033
1034 <listitem>
1035 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
1036 <itemizedlist>
1037 <listitem>
1038 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
1039 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
1040 </listitem>
1041 </itemizedlist>
1042 </listitem>
1043
1044 <listitem>
1045 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
1046 <itemizedlist>
1047 <listitem>
1048 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
1049 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
1050 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
1051 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
1052 </listitem>
1053 </itemizedlist>
1054 </listitem>
1055
1056 <listitem>
1057 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
1058 <itemizedlist>
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
1061 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
1062 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
1063 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
1064 </listitem>
1065 <listitem>
1066 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
1067 </listitem>
1068 <listitem>
1069 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
1070 Chris Staub.</para>
1071 </listitem>
1072 </itemizedlist>
1073 </listitem>
1074
1075 <listitem>
1076 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
1077 <itemizedlist>
1078 <listitem>
1079 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
1080 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
1081 </listitem>
1082 </itemizedlist>
1083 </listitem>
1084
1085 <listitem>
1086 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
1087 <itemizedlist>
1088 <listitem>
1089 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
1090 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
1091 </listitem>
1092 </itemizedlist>
1093 </listitem>
1094
1095 <listitem>
1096 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
1097 <itemizedlist>
1098 <listitem>
1099 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
1100 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
1101 </listitem>
1102 <listitem>
1103 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
1104 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
1105 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
1106 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
1107 </listitem>
1108 </itemizedlist>
1109 </listitem>
1110
1111 <listitem>
1112 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
1113 <itemizedlist>
1114 <listitem>
1115 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
1116 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
1117 </listitem>
1118 <listitem>
1119 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
1120 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
1121 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
1122 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
1123 </listitem>
1124 <listitem>
1125 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
1126 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
1127 report and the fix.</para>
1128 </listitem>
1129 <listitem>
1130 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
1131 </listitem>
1132 <listitem>
1133 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
1134 </listitem>
1135 <listitem>
1136 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
1137 </listitem>
1138 </itemizedlist>
1139 </listitem>
1140
1141 <listitem>
1142 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
1143 <itemizedlist>
1144 <listitem>
1145 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
1146 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
1147 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
1148 </listitem>
1149 </itemizedlist>
1150 </listitem>
1151
1152 <listitem>
1153 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
1154 <itemizedlist>
1155 <listitem>
1156 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
1157 </listitem>
1158 <listitem>
1159 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
1160 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
1161 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
1162 </listitem>
1163 </itemizedlist>
1164 </listitem>
1165
1166 <listitem>
1167 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
1168 <itemizedlist>
1169 <listitem>
1170 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
1171 </listitem>
1172 <listitem>
1173 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
1174 </listitem>
1175 <listitem>
1176 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
1177 </listitem>
1178 <listitem>
1179 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
1180 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
1181 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
1182 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
1183 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
1184 of LFS.</para>
1185 </listitem>
1186 </itemizedlist>
1187 </listitem>
1188
1189 <listitem>
1190 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
1191 <itemizedlist>
1192 <listitem>
1193 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
1194 </listitem>
1195 <listitem>
1196 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
1197 </listitem>
1198 <listitem>
1199 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
1200 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
1201 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
1202 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
1203 </listitem>
1204 </itemizedlist>
1205 </listitem>
1206
1207 <listitem>
1208 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
1209 <itemizedlist>
1210 <listitem>
1211 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
1212 </listitem>
1213 </itemizedlist>
1214 </listitem>
1215
1216 <listitem>
1217 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
1218 <itemizedlist>
1219 <listitem>
1220 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
1221 </listitem>
1222 <listitem>
1223 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
1224 </listitem>
1225 <listitem>
1226 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
1227 </listitem>
1228 </itemizedlist>
1229 </listitem>
1230
1231 <listitem>
1232 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
1233 <itemizedlist>
1234 <listitem>
1235 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
1236 </listitem>
1237 <listitem>
1238 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
1239 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
1240 </listitem>
1241 <listitem>
1242 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
1243 file</para>
1244 </listitem>
1245 </itemizedlist>
1246 </listitem>
1247
1248 <listitem>
1249 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
1250 <itemizedlist>
1251 <listitem>
1252 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
1253 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
1254 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
1255 </listitem>
1256 </itemizedlist>
1257 </listitem>
1258
1259 <listitem>
1260 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
1261 <itemizedlist>
1262 <listitem>
1263 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
1264 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
1265 </listitem>
1266 <listitem>
1267 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
1268 </listitem>
1269 </itemizedlist>
1270 </listitem>
1271
1272 <listitem>
1273 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
1274 <itemizedlist>
1275 <listitem>
1276 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
1277 </listitem>
1278 </itemizedlist>
1279 </listitem>
1280
1281 <listitem>
1282 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
1283 <itemizedlist>
1284 <listitem>
1285 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
1286 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
1287 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
1288 </listitem>
1289 </itemizedlist>
1290 </listitem>
1291
1292 <listitem>
1293 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
1294 <itemizedlist>
1295 <listitem>
1296 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
1297 bug 1629).</para>
1298 </listitem>
1299 <listitem>
1300 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
1301 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
1302 </listitem>
1303 </itemizedlist>
1304 </listitem>
1305
1306 <listitem>
1307 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
1308 <itemizedlist>
1309 <listitem>
1310 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
1311 </listitem>
1312 </itemizedlist>
1313 </listitem>
1314
1315 <listitem>
1316 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
1317 <itemizedlist>
1318 <listitem>
1319 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
1320 </listitem>
1321 <listitem>
1322 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
1323 </listitem>
1324 <listitem>
1325 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
1326 </listitem>
1327 </itemizedlist>
1328 </listitem>
1329
1330 <listitem>
1331 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
1332 <itemizedlist>
1333 <listitem>
1334 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
1335 </listitem>
1336 </itemizedlist>
1337 </listitem>
1338
1339 <listitem>
1340 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
1341 <itemizedlist>
1342 <listitem>
1343 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
1344 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
1345 </listitem>
1346 <listitem>
1347 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
1348 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
1349 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
1350 </listitem>
1351 </itemizedlist>
1352 </listitem>
1353
1354 <listitem>
1355 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
1356 <itemizedlist>
1357 <listitem>
1358 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
1359 vulnerability.</para>
1360 </listitem>
1361 </itemizedlist>
1362 </listitem>
1363
1364 <listitem>
1365 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
1366 <itemizedlist>
1367 <listitem>
1368 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
1369 </listitem>
1370 </itemizedlist>
1371 </listitem>
1372
1373 <listitem>
1374 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
1375 <itemizedlist>
1376 <listitem>
1377 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
1378 </listitem>
1379 </itemizedlist>
1380 </listitem>
1381
1382 <listitem>
1383 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
1384 <itemizedlist>
1385 <listitem>
1386 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
1387 </listitem>
1388 </itemizedlist>
1389 </listitem>
1390
1391 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
1392 <itemizedlist>
1393 <listitem>
1394 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
1395 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
1396 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
1397 </listitem>
1398 <listitem>
1399 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
1400 </listitem>
1401 <listitem>
1402 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
1403 </listitem>
1404 </itemizedlist>
1405 </listitem>
1406
1407 <listitem>
1408 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
1409 <itemizedlist>
1410 <listitem>
1411 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
1412 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
1413 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
1414 to actually work.</para>
1415 </listitem>
1416 <listitem>
1417 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
1418 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
1419 </listitem>
1420 </itemizedlist>
1421 </listitem>
1422
1423 <listitem>
1424 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
1425 <itemizedlist>
1426 <listitem>
1427 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
1428 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
1429 </listitem>
1430 <listitem>
1431 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
1432 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
1433 </listitem>
1434 <listitem>
1435 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
1436 </listitem>
1437 <listitem>
1438 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
1439 gcc-pass2.</para>
1440 </listitem>
1441 </itemizedlist>
1442 </listitem>
1443
1444 <listitem>
1445 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
1446 <itemizedlist>
1447 <listitem>
1448 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
1449 builds for consistency</para>
1450 </listitem>
1451 </itemizedlist>
1452 </listitem>
1453
1454 <listitem>
1455 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
1456 <itemizedlist>
1457 <listitem>
1458 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
1459 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
1460 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
1461 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
1462 </listitem>
1463 <listitem>
1464 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
1465 rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
1466 </listitem>
1467 <listitem>
1468 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
1469 </listitem>
1470 </itemizedlist>
1471 </listitem>
1472
1473 <listitem>
1474 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
1475 <itemizedlist>
1476 <listitem>
1477 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
1478 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
1479 </listitem>
1480 </itemizedlist>
1481 </listitem>
1482
1483 <listitem>
1484 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
1485 <itemizedlist>
1486 <listitem>
1487 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
1488 </listitem>
1489 <listitem>
1490 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
1491 </listitem>
1492 <listitem>
1493 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
1494 </listitem>
1495 </itemizedlist>
1496 </listitem>
1497
1498 <listitem>
1499 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
1500 <itemizedlist>
1501 <listitem>
1502 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
1503 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
1504 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
1505 </listitem>
1506 <listitem>
1507 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
1508 filenames.</para>
1509 </listitem>
1510 </itemizedlist>
1511 </listitem>
1512
1513 <listitem>
1514 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
1515 <itemizedlist>
1516 <listitem>
1517 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
1518 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
1519 </listitem>
1520 <listitem>
1521 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
1522 </listitem>
1523 </itemizedlist>
1524 </listitem>
1525
1526 <listitem>
1527 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
1528 <itemizedlist>
1529 <listitem>
1530 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
1531 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
1532 </listitem>
1533 </itemizedlist>
1534 </listitem>
1535
1536 <listitem>
1537 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
1538 <itemizedlist>
1539 <listitem>
1540 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
1541 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
1542 </listitem>
1543 <listitem>
1544 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
1545 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
1546 </listitem>
1547 <listitem>
1548 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
1549 bug 1603).</para>
1550 </listitem>
1551 <listitem>
1552 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
1553 </listitem>
1554 <listitem>
1555 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
1556 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
1557 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
1558 </listitem>
1559 <listitem>
1560 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
1561 test (bug 1611).</para>
1562 </listitem>
1563 </itemizedlist>
1564 </listitem>
1565
1566 <listitem>
1567 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
1568 <itemizedlist>
1569 <listitem>
1570 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
1571 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
1572 </listitem>
1573 <listitem>
1574 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
1575 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
1576 </listitem>
1577 <listitem>
1578 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1579 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1580 </listitem>
1581 <listitem>
1582 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1583 of chapter 6.</para>
1584 </listitem>
1585 <listitem>
1586 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1587 library (Bug 1608)</para>
1588 </listitem>
1589 </itemizedlist>
1590 </listitem>
1591
1592 <listitem>
1593 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1594 <itemizedlist>
1595 <listitem>
1596 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1597 from BLFS first.</para>
1598 </listitem>
1599 </itemizedlist>
1600 </listitem>
1601
1602 <listitem>
1603 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1604 <itemizedlist>
1605 <listitem>
1606 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1607 </listitem>
1608 <listitem>
1609 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1610 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1611 </listitem>
1612 </itemizedlist>
1613 </listitem>
1614
1615 <listitem>
1616 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1617 <itemizedlist>
1618 <listitem>
1619 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1620 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1621 </listitem>
1622 <listitem>
1623 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1624 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1625 </listitem>
1626 </itemizedlist>
1627 </listitem>
1628
1629 <listitem>
1630 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1631 <itemizedlist>
1632 <listitem>
1633 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1634 </listitem>
1635 </itemizedlist>
1636 </listitem>
1637
1638 <listitem>
1639 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1640 <itemizedlist>
1641 <listitem>
1642 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
1643 </listitem>
1644 <listitem>
1645 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
1646 </listitem>
1647 <listitem>
1648 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1649 The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
1650 </listitem>
1651 <listitem>
1652 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
1653 </listitem>
1654 </itemizedlist>
1655 </listitem>
1656
1657 <listitem>
1658 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1659 <itemizedlist>
1660 <listitem>
1661 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1662 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1663 </listitem>
1664 </itemizedlist>
1665 </listitem>
1666
1667 <listitem>
1668 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1669 <itemizedlist>
1670 <listitem>
1671 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1672 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1673 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1674 </listitem>
1675 <listitem>
1676 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1677 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1678 </listitem>
1679 </itemizedlist>
1680 </listitem>
1681
1682 <listitem>
1683 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1684 <itemizedlist>
1685 <listitem>
1686 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1687 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1688 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1689 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1690 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1691 </listitem>
1692 <listitem>
1693 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1694 </listitem>
1695 <listitem>
1696 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1697 </listitem>
1698 </itemizedlist>
1699 </listitem>
1700
1701 <listitem>
1702 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1703 <itemizedlist>
1704 <listitem>
1705 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1706 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1707 </listitem>
1708 </itemizedlist>
1709 </listitem>
1710
1711 <listitem>
1712 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1713 <itemizedlist>
1714 <listitem>
1715 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
1716 </listitem>
1717 <listitem>
1718 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1719 needed.</para>
1720 </listitem>
1721 </itemizedlist>
1722 </listitem>
1723
1724 <listitem>
1725 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1726 <itemizedlist>
1727 <listitem>
1728 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1729 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1730 </listitem>
1731 </itemizedlist>
1732 </listitem>
1733
1734 <listitem>
1735 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1736 <itemizedlist>
1737 <listitem>
1738 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1739 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1740 of the specs patch.</para>
1741 </listitem>
1742 <listitem>
1743 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1744 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1745 </listitem>
1746 </itemizedlist>
1747 </listitem>
1748
1749 <listitem>
1750 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1751 <itemizedlist>
1752 <listitem>
1753 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1754 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1755 </listitem>
1756 <listitem>
1757 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1758 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1759 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1760 </listitem>
1761 </itemizedlist>
1762 </listitem>
1763
1764 <listitem>
1765 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1766 <itemizedlist>
1767 <listitem>
1768 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1769 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1770 </listitem>
1771 <listitem>
1772 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1773 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1774 </listitem>
1775 <listitem>
1776 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1777 5 and 6.</para>
1778 </listitem>
1779 </itemizedlist>
1780 </listitem>
1781
1782 <listitem>
1783 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1784 <itemizedlist>
1785 <listitem>
1786 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1787 </listitem>
1788 <listitem>
1789 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1790 </listitem>
1791 <listitem>
1792 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1793 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1794 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1795 </listitem>
1796 <listitem>
1797 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1798 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1799 </listitem>
1800 <listitem>
1801 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1802 </listitem>
1803 <listitem>
1804 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1805 </listitem>
1806 </itemizedlist>
1807 </listitem>
1808
1809 <listitem>
1810 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1811 <itemizedlist>
1812 <listitem>
1813 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1814 </listitem>
1815 </itemizedlist>
1816 </listitem>
1817
1818 <listitem>
1819 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1820 <itemizedlist>
1821 <listitem>
1822 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1823 </listitem>
1824 <listitem>
1825 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1826 </listitem>
1827 <listitem>
1828 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1829 </listitem>
1830 <listitem>
1831 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1832 </listitem>
1833 <listitem>
1834 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1835 </listitem>
1836 </itemizedlist>
1837 </listitem>
1838
1839 <listitem>
1840 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1841 <itemizedlist>
1842 <listitem>
1843 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1844 as it is not needed.</para>
1845 </listitem>
1846 <listitem>
1847 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1848 </listitem>
1849 <listitem>
1850 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1851 </listitem>
1852 </itemizedlist>
1853 </listitem>
1854
1855 <listitem>
1856 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1857 <itemizedlist>
1858 <listitem>
1859 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1860 </listitem>
1861 <listitem>
1862 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1863 </listitem>
1864 <listitem>
1865 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1866 </listitem>
1867 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1868 </listitem>
1869 </itemizedlist>
1870 </listitem>
1871
1872 <listitem>
1873 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1874 <itemizedlist>
1875 <listitem>
1876 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1877 </listitem>
1878 <listitem>
1879 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1880 </listitem>
1881 <listitem>
1882 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1883 </listitem>
1884 <listitem>
1885 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1886 </listitem>
1887 </itemizedlist>
1888 </listitem>
1889
1890 <listitem>
1891 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1892 <itemizedlist>
1893 <listitem>
1894 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1895 </listitem>
1896 </itemizedlist>
1897 </listitem>
1898
1899 <listitem>
1900 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1901 <itemizedlist>
1902 <listitem>
1903 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1904 </listitem>
1905 </itemizedlist>
1906 </listitem>
1907
1908 <listitem>
1909 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1910 <itemizedlist>
1911 <listitem>
1912 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1913 </listitem>
1914 <listitem>
1915 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1916 </listitem>
1917 <listitem>
1918 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1919 </listitem>
1920 <listitem>
1921 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1922 </listitem>
1923 </itemizedlist>
1924 </listitem>
1925
1926 <listitem>
1927 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1928 <itemizedlist>
1929 <listitem>
1930 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1931 </listitem>
1932 <listitem>
1933 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1934 </listitem>
1935 <listitem>
1936 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
1937 </listitem>
1938 </itemizedlist>
1939 </listitem>
1940
1941 <listitem>
1942 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
1943 <itemizedlist>
1944 <listitem>
1945 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
1946 </listitem>
1947 </itemizedlist>
1948 </listitem>
1949
1950 <listitem>
1951 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
1952 <itemizedlist>
1953 <listitem>
1954 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
1955 </listitem>
1956 <listitem>
1957 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
1958 </listitem>
1959 </itemizedlist>
1960 </listitem>
1961
1962 <listitem>
1963 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
1964 <itemizedlist>
1965 <listitem>
1966 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
1967 </listitem>
1968 </itemizedlist>
1969 </listitem>
1970
1971 <listitem>
1972 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
1973 <itemizedlist>
1974 <listitem>
1975 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
1976 </listitem>
1977 </itemizedlist>
1978 </listitem>
1979
1980 <listitem>
1981 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
1982 <itemizedlist>
1983 <listitem>
1984 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
1985 </listitem>
1986 </itemizedlist>
1987 </listitem>
1988
1989 </itemizedlist>
1990
1991 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
1992 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
1993
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