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1<sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
2<title>Changelog</title>
3<?dbhtml filename="changelog.html" dir="chapter01"?>
4
5<para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
6
7<itemizedlist>
8
9<listitem><para>Upgraded to:
10<itemizedlist>
11<listitem><para>automake-1.6.3</para></listitem>
12<listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
13<listitem><para>binutils-2.13</para></listitem>
14<listitem><para>bison-1.35</para></listitem>
15<listitem><para>diffutils-2.8.1</para></listitem>
16<listitem><para>file-3.39</para></listitem>
17<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1</para></listitem>
18<listitem><para>gcc-3.2</para></listitem>
19<listitem><para>gettext-0.11.5</para></listitem>
20<listitem><para>groff-1.18</para></listitem>
21<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
22<listitem><para>linux-2.4.19</para></listitem>
23<listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.7</para></listitem>
24<listitem><para>man-1.5k</para></listitem>
25<listitem><para>man-pages-1.52</para></listitem>
26<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.19</para></listitem>
27<listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
28<listitem><para>perl-5.8.0</para></listitem>
29<listitem><para>psmisc-21</para></listitem>
30<listitem><para>texinfo-4.2</para></listitem>
31<listitem><para>textutils-2.1</para></listitem>
32<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
33</itemizedlist>
34</para></listitem>
35
36<listitem><para>Added:
37<itemizedlist>
38<listitem><para>ed-0.2.patch</para></listitem>
39<listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
40<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1-2.patch</para></listitem>
41<listitem><para>gcc-3.2.patch</para></listitem>
42<listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5-2.patch</para></listitem>
43<listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4b.patch</para></listitem>
44<listitem><para>ncurses-5.2.patch</para></listitem>
45<listitem><para>procps-2.0.7.patch</para></listitem>
46<listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch</para></listitem>
47<listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
48<listitem><para>zlib-1.1.4</para></listitem>
49</itemizedlist>
50</para></listitem>
51
52<listitem><para>Removed:
53<itemizedlist>
54<listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4a.patch</para></listitem>
55<listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
56</itemizedlist>
57</para></listitem>
58
59<listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Introduction:
60Removed paragraph about static linking since it seems misleading and is
61covered in better detail in <emphasis>Why Static</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
62
63<listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux:
64Removed <userinput>cd</userinput> command.</para></listitem>
65
66<listitem><para>September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses:
67Removed old <userinput>mv /lib/*.a /usr/lib</userinput> command
68explanation.</para></listitem>
69
70<listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added
71--libdir=/usr/lib to the configure script options. This way a proper
72<filename>libshadow.la</filename> is generated. Also changed the
73<userinput>mv</userinput> command to move all the
74<filename>libshadow.so*</filename> files to the <filename
75class="directory">/lib</filename> directory. The <filename>lib*a</filename>
76files are already in the <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>
77directory.</para></listitem>
78
79<listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Added
80another regex to the <userinput>sed</userinput> command that modifies the
81<filename>man.conf</filename> file. The added regex comments out the
82<emphasis>MANPATH /usr/man</emphasis> line which causes for duplicate
83results when using the <userinput>whatis</userinput>
84command</para></listitem>
85
86<listitem><para>September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added the
87<emphasis>Linux Threads Man Pages</emphasis> installation after the Perl
88installation.</para></listitem>
89
90<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Create mtab
91link: Made the <userinput>ln</userinput> command an <userinput>ln
92-sf</userinput> so the existing <filename>/etc/mtab</filename> file, created
93by the <userinput>mount</userinput> command, will be removed before
94re-creating it as a symlink.</para></listitem>
95
96<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Sh-utils: Added
97the sh-utils-hostname patch that supresses the build of the hostname
98program. This is done because the hostname program from the net-tools
99package is superior over this version.</para></listitem>
100
101<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Updated
102the Gawk patch. It also changes the <emphasis>DDEFPATH</emphasis> directory
103location now.</para></listitem>
104
105<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Added
106patch that fixes a locale problem that makes <userinput>top</userinput>
107crash under certain locale settings.</para></listitem>
108
109<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Creating a
110file system: Referenced alternative filesystems in BLFS.</para></listitem>
111
112<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all superfluous
113<filename>/usr/lib/*.so</filename> symbolic links from library
114installations.</para></listitem>
115
116<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
117lfs-bootscripts-1.10</para></listitem>
118
119<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure
120Sysvinit: Changed the sulogin line to <emphasis>once</emphasis> instead of
121having it respawn. This way it'll behave as expected (ie: a CTRL+D will
122continue instead of restart sulogin).</para></listitem>
123
124<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Added the
125<emphasis>--enable-clocale=gnu</emphasis> option to ensure the proper
126locale mode is used by the C++ libraries.</para></listitem>
127
128<listitem><para>September 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Grammatic
129changes.</para></listitem>
130
131<listitem><para>September 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's
132grammar changes patch.</para></listitem>
133
134<listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gzip:
135Added gzip-1.2.4b.patch.</para></listitem>
136
137<listitem><para>September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Textutils:
138Added re_max_failures2 for old host systems.</para></listitem>
139
140<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Bash: Removed
141creation of sh symlink. Creating the bash and sh symlinks: Added /bin/bash
142symlink, symlinked sh to bash. Gzip, Sysvinit, Util-Linux: Shortened cp
143command. Makedev: Removed /bin/bash creation and removal. Man: Modified sed
144statement to edit less call, so SGR will work.</para></listitem>
145
146<listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - About
147debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed
148statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences.</para></listitem>
149
150<listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Install all
151software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the
152compilation of symbols in static packages.</para></listitem>
153
154<listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Makedev:
155Put rm /bin/bash after device creation. Perl: Removed information
156about the old patch.</para></listitem>
157
158<listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Re-added
159HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN; removed --enable-__cxa-atexit which was incorrect and
160not needed in this chapter; added information about the
161patch.</para></listitem>
162
163<listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new Glibc patch and
164introducted a GCC patch.</para></listitem>
165
166<listitem><para>August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to automake-1.6.3,
167gcc-3.2, groff-1.18, makedev-1.7, perl-5.8.0,
168util-linux-2.11u</para></listitem>
169
170<listitem><para>August 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Appendix: Added
171missing URLs to patches.</para></listitem>
172
173<listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06:
174Changed ln -sf to ln -s wherever possible.</para></listitem>
175
176<listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Binutils: cp
177libiberty.h after install, as it is needed by certain software. Shadow:
178added command to remove the groups program installed by Shadow because
179Sh-utils installs a (better) groups program.</para></listitem>
180
181<listitem><para>August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Re-added
182sh-utils-2.0.patch.</para></listitem>
183
184<listitem><para>August 16th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move man-pages to
185just after the kernel headers installation.</para></listitem>
186
187<listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Move the MAKEDEV
188installation to before glibc and remove the temporary creation of
189<filename>/dev/null</filename> as we don't need it
190anymore.</para></listitem>
191
192<listitem><para>August 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Preparing a new
193partition: mentioned that a swap partition can be shared between the LFS
194and host systems, grammatic changes.</para></listitem>
195
196<listitem><para>August 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed the
197<emphasis>--with-curses</emphasis> switch from the Bash installation as
198it's unnecessary here.</para></listitem>
199
200<listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to modutils-2.4.19,
201linux-2.4.19, gettext-0.11.5, binutils-2.13, textutils-2.1.</para></listitem>
202
203<listitem><para>August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Vim: changed
204alternative editors link from hints to BLFS.</para></listitem>
205
206<listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: removed
207the <emphasis>--disable-termcap</emphasis> configure option. Termcap is
208disabled by default now, so no need for this option (left over from a long
209time ago when it was needed).</para></listitem>
210
211<listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added the
212command <userinput>cp include/asm-generic /usr/include</userinput>. There
213are programs which use the files in there, as well as headers in the
214<filename class="directory">asm</filename> directory may be split up in the
215future, and put in the
216<filename class="directory">asm-generic</filename>.</para></listitem>
217
218<listitem><para>August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: added the
219missing program description of msgcat.</para></listitem>
220
221<listitem><para>August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4.</para></listitem>
222
223<listitem><para>August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52,
224man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils-2.4.18.</para></listitem>
225
226<listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs.
227Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39.</para></listitem>
228
229<listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 &amp; 05 - Creating
230a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils,
231Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead
232of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to
233auto-host.h.</para></listitem>
234
235<listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: added
236--disable-profile flag.</para></listitem>
237
238<listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux:
239added information about modules and kernel documentation.</para></listitem>
240
241<listitem><para>July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
242system: added a command to remove the static directory.</para></listitem>
243
244<listitem><para>July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the
245system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step.</para></listitem>
246
247<listitem><para>July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Sysvinit: Simplified
248the sed command and updated the installation description because init now
249prints "Sending processes" instead of "Sending all processes".</para></listitem>
250
251<listitem><para>July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change - Made all
252patches use a &amp;package-patch-version; entity and removed all
253hardcoding of patch versions.</para></listitem>
254
255<listitem><para>June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and
256automake-1.6.2</para></listitem>
257
258<listitem><para>June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow, Util-linux,
259LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
260
261<listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Net-tools,
262Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison,
263Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps,
264Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
265
266<listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - M4,
267Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added "last checked against" for uniformity.
268GCC: Removed i686-specific programs.</para></listitem>
269
270<listitem><para>June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gettext:
271Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
272
273<listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Binutils,
274Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description
275of c++filt.</para></listitem>
276
277<listitem><para>June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - The End:
278Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-&version; to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version
279number inside this file.</para></listitem>
280
281<listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
282Modified the build instructions and command explanations to
283only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed
284until after the second GCC build.</para></listitem>
285
286<listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: grammatic
287changes.</para></listitem>
288
289<listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Gawk:
290Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils:
291Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC:
292Updated the package contents.</para></listitem>
293
294<listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the
295estimated required disk space.</para></listitem>
296
297<listitem><para>June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Creating
298Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p
299option to mkdir which will create the usr directory
300anyways.</para></listitem>
301
302<listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Reiserfsprogs:
303added a description for unpack.</para></listitem>
304
305<listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 - How to ask for
306help: mentioned the FAQ.</para></listitem>
307
308<listitem><para>June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up
309explanations following the /static change.</para></listitem>
310
311<listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface - Who would not want to
312read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar
313patch.</para></listitem>
314
315<listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors.
316Chapter 06 - Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 - Gawk: to avoid confusion,
317mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06.</para></listitem>
318
319<listitem><para>June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited
320to include reporting typos.</para></listitem>
321
322<listitem><para>May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the
323CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1
324systems.</para></listitem>
325
326<listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Update to
327binutils-2.12.1.</para></listitem>
328
329<listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed
330section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer
331have the commands referred to there.</para></listitem>
332
333<listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the
334various sed fixes with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
335
336<listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the
337sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
338
339<listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced
340the sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
341
342<listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the
343sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
344
345<listitem><para>May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership:
346removed the explicit command to chown <filename
347class="directory">/lost+found</filename>. This is done by the first command
348now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
349
350<listitem><para>May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
351ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used
352one).</para></listitem>
353
354<listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1,
355bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2,
356modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix
357patches for ncurses, perl and vim.</para></listitem>
358
359<listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed
360the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to
361chapter 06-binutils.</para></listitem>
362
363<listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk &amp; Findutils:
364simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We
365can live with a
366<filename class="directory">$LFS/static/libexecdir</filename> being created.
367The whole <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory is
368temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks
369like.</para></listitem>
370
371<listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories:
372removed the <userinput>cd /</userinput> command and changed the two
373<userinput>chmod</userinput> commands to use absolute paths
374instead.</para></listitem>
375
376<listitem><para>May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor
377corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't
378wanted.</para></listitem>
379
380<listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the
381keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added
382findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5
383into <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> and re-ordered the
384installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path
385(files from <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename>).</para></listitem>
386
387<listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
388more descriptions.</para></listitem>
389
390<listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some
391descriptions.</para></listitem>
392
393<listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some
394descriptions.</para></listitem>
395
396<listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
397more descriptions.</para></listitem>
398
399<listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
400descriptions.</para></listitem>
401
402<listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
403more descriptions.</para></listitem>
404
405<listitem><para>May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown
406X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info
407chown).</para></listitem>
408
409<listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added
410http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net</para></listitem>
411
412<listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
413more descriptions.</para></listitem>
414
415<listitem><para>May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the
416instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter
41705 gzip instructions.</para></listitem>
418
419<listitem><para>May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML
420fixups; mainly altering &lt;ulink&gt; tags to remove erroneous &amp;#13;
421in the HTML output.</para></listitem>
422
423<listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the
424missing descriptions.</para></listitem>
425
426<listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the
427symlink location of <filename class="symlink">vigr</filename> to
428<filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename></para></listitem>
429
430<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the
431two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be
432mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).</para></listitem>
433
434<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the
435<userinput>cd dir && ln -sf</userinput> commands to one single command
436(such as <userinput>ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh</userinput> Same goes for
437<userinput>cd dir && mv/cp</userinput> constructions which are now replaced
438with constructions like
439<userinput>mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin</userinput></para></listitem>
440
441<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS
442library files" section.</para></listitem>
443
444<listitem><para>May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds -
445gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the
446<userinput>export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR</userinput> constructions and
447changed them to <userinput>VAR=VALUE ./configure</userinput>
448constructions.</para></listitem>
449
450<listitem><para>April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added
451libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in
452updatedb.</para></listitem>
453
454<listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
455that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
456then you first need to create the
457<filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
458
459<listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to
460MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
461
462<listitem><para>April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to
463cvs and split up index.xml.</para></listitem>
464
465<listitem><para>April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following
466packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q
467</para></listitem>
468
469<listitem><para>April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp
470to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static
471pcre library.</para></listitem>
472
473<listitem><para>April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the
474http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement
475ftp://ftp.de).</para></listitem>
476
477</itemizedlist>
478
479<para>3.3 - April 7th, 2002</para>
480
481<itemizedlist>
482
483<listitem><para>Updated to:
484
485<itemizedlist>
486<listitem><para>autoconf-2.53</para></listitem>
487<listitem><para>automake-1.6</para></listitem>
488<listitem><para>bin86-0.16.2</para></listitem>
489<listitem><para>binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
490<listitem><para>bison-1.34</para></listitem>
491<listitem><para>bzip2-1.0.2</para></listitem>
492<listitem><para>diffutils-2.8</para></listitem>
493<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.27</para></listitem>
494<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.0</para></listitem>
495<listitem><para>gettext-0.11.1</para></listitem>
496<listitem><para>grep-2.5</para></listitem>
497<listitem><para>less-374</para></listitem>
498<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
499<listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
500<listitem><para>linux-2.4.18</para></listitem>
501<listitem><para>man-pages-1.48</para></listitem>
502<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.15</para></listitem>
503<listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
504<listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
505<listitem><para>texinfo-4.1</para></listitem>
506<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
507<listitem><para>vim-6.1</para></listitem>
508</itemizedlist>
509
510</para></listitem>
511
512<listitem><para>April 7th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new mirror site located
513in Freising, Germany</para></listitem>
514
515<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Added this
516page explaining that you can remove the loadkeys symlink from <filename
517class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d</filename> if you compiled a keymap
518directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>
519
520<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configuring
521Keyboard: explained you can also compile the keymap directly into the
522kernel which has additional benefits.</para></listitem>
523
524<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
525lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
526
527<listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - GCC: Added
528commands to remove the <filename class="directory">/usr/*-gnu</filename>
529directory.</para></listitem>
530
531<listitem><para>April 4th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Diffutils: Added
532--disable-nls</para></listitem>
533
534<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: Added the
535missing package descriptions.</para></listitem>
536
537<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Mounting $LFS/proc:
538Added <userinput>chown root.root $LFS/proc</userinput>. The recursive chown
539operation in chapter 6 doesn't touch proc, so this'll remain owned by user
540<emphasis>lfs</emphasis>. It's not a big deal, just not a very clean thing
541to do.</para></listitem>
542
543<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Added a few
544symlinks that are used by programs like <userinput>xman</userinput> and
545others.</para></listitem>
546
547<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Mounting partitions:
548Added some notes how to deal with multiple partitions ($LFS, $LFS/usr and
549so on).</para></listitem>
550
551<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - E2fsprogs: Added
552<userinput>install-info</userinput> command to finish off the info page
553installation.</para></listitem>
554
555<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Reversed the
556<userinput>make</userinput> and <userinput>make -f
557Makefile-libbz2_so</userinput>. This is needed so all object files are
558compiled with the PIC option (Position Independent Code).</para></listitem>
559
560<listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Linux: Shortened the
561installation instructions by cutting out the <userinput>make
562config</userinput> and <userinput>make dep</userinput>
563stages.</para></listitem>
564
565<listitem><para>April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 -
566Gawk: Added a warning to never run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on
567the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to <userinput>rm -rf
568/usr/bin/*</userinput> because we override the <filename
569class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition to <filename
570class="directory">/usr/bin</filename></para></listitem>
571
572<listitem><para>March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to
573diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting
574for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script.
575Removed sed to fix problem with shell syntax highlighting in vim as that
576is fixed in the new version.</para></listitem>
577
578<listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
579Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
580
581<listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
582library description.</para></listitem>
583
584<listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before we
585move <filename>/usr/bin/bzless</filename> and
586<filename>/usr/bin/bzmore</filename> to the <filename
587class="directory">/bin</filename> directory, we first remove the
588<filename>/bin/bzless</filename> and <filename>/bin/bzmore</filename>
589files. On some systems overwriting the existing files doesn't work due to
590hardlinks being used.</para></listitem>
591
592<listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Sysklogd: Updated
593the download location to <ulink url="http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/"/></para></listitem>
594
595<listitem><para>March 20th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure Dynamic
596Loader: Removed the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
597<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> directories from the
598<filename>ld.so.conf</filename> file. They were
599unnecessary.</para></listitem>
600
601<listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06+Appendix A: Removed
602the chroot dependencies. It's not a package so it's a bit out of
603place.</para></listitem>
604
605<listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Gawk: Added
606commands to sed the <filename>awklib/Makefile.in</filename> file to change
607the <emphasis>datadir</emphasis> and <emphasis>libexecdir</emphasis>
608definitions</para></listitem>
609
610<listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mailing lists:
611Added lfs-chat description</para></listitem>
612
613<listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06-Shadow: Move
614<filename>libmisc.*a</filename> to
615<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> too.</para></listitem>
616
617<listitem><para>March 14th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
618bison-1.34, gettext-0.11.1, grep-2.5, lfs-bootscripts-1.8,
619shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
620
621<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
622binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
623
624<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
625here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
626which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
627changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
628clock is set up.</para></listitem>
629
630<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
631the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
632The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used
633now).</para></listitem>
634
635<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk: Added
636-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 bug fix for glibc-2.1.x
637systems.</para></listitem>
638
639<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before
640installing, remove <filename>/usr/bin/bz*</filename>. The bzip2
641installation doesn't deal with existing files properly when making hard
642links, so we remove the files first.</para></listitem>
643
644<listitem><para>March 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure keyboard:
645Added section to configure keyboard keymap file by creating the <filename
646class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
647symlink.</para></listitem>
648
649<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Make bootable: Added
650a <userinput>cp</userinput> command that finds all the kernel images from
651<filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> automatically and copies them to
652<filename class="directory">$LFS/boot</filename>.</para></listitem>
653
654<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Moved the
655<filename>man.conf</filename> from <filename
656class="directory">/usr/share/misc</filename> to <filename
657class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para></listitem>
658
659<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07: Added a page about
660the sysklogd script and explain that the default script includes the
661<emphasis>-m 0</emphasis> option to
662<userinput>syslogd</userinput>.</para></listitem>
663
664<listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the Mawk package and
665replaced with the Gawk package. This was done because mawk is no longer
666being developed, while gawk is. Mawk has some POSIX compliance bugs that
667are fixed in Gawk.</para></listitem>
668
669<listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to the following
670packages: autoconf-2.53, automake-1.6, bin86-0.16.2, bison-1.33,
671bzip2-1.0.2, e2fsprogs-1.27, gawk-3.1.0, gettext-0.11, less-374, lilo-22.2,
672linux-2.4.18, man-pages-1.48, modutils-2.4.14, reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b,
673shadow-4.0.2, texinfo-4.1, util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
674
675</itemizedlist>
676
677<para>3.2 - March 7th, 2002</para>
678
679<itemizedlist>
680
681<listitem><para>Updated to:
682
683<itemizedlist>
684<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
685</itemizedlist>
686
687</para></listitem>
688
689<listitem><para>March 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Creating
690directories: Removed the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
691and <filename class="directory">/usr/local/var</filename> directories. They
692aren't recommended by the <emphasis>FHS</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
693
694<listitem><para>February 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Make: Added
695commands to remove the setgid kmem bit from
696<filename>/usr/bin/make</filename>. This isn't needed on Linux systems to
697deal with the system load and it causes some other problems too that are
698fixed by removing the setgid bit.</para></listitem>
699
700<listitem><para>February 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
701lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
702
703<listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Added
704the command again that moves $LFS/usr/bin/chroot to
705$LFS/usr/sbin</para></listitem>
706
707<listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard] Updated dependencies for all
708packages.</para></listitem>
709
710<listitem><para>February 15th, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 01: Added a new mirror
711to the list located in The Netherlands (www.nl and
712ftp.nl).</para></listitem>
713
714<listitem><para>February 11th, 2002 [markh] Chapter 05: Sh-utils:
715Removed extra &amp;&amp; from end of install
716instructions.</para></listitem>
717
718<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils:
719Removed <emphasis>su</emphasis> from the <emphasis>mv</emphasis> command
720as this isn't installed in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
721
722</itemizedlist>
723
724<para>3.2-RC1 - February 10th, 2002</para>
725
726<itemizedlist>
727
728<listitem><para>Updated to:
729
730<itemizedlist>
731<listitem><para>bison-1.31</para></listitem>
732<listitem><para>file-3.37</para></listitem>
733<listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5</para></listitem>
734<listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
735<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
736<listitem><para>linux-2.4.17</para></listitem>
737<listitem><para>man-pages-1.47</para></listitem>
738<listitem><para>psmisc-20.2</para></listitem>
739<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.84</para></listitem>
740<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11n</para></listitem>
741</itemizedlist>
742
743</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
744
745<itemizedlist>
746
747<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added a sed
748command to change gzexe's hardcoded /usr/bin/gzip path and change it to
749/bin/gzip.</para></listitem>
750
751<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 + 6: Moved
752additional programs to the ($LFS)/bin directory that are used by the
753bootscripts. No programs used by bootscripts (except daemons themselves)
754should be in the /usr directory in case /usr isn't available until far
755along in the boot process (when it's an NFS share for
756example).</para></listitem>
757
758<listitem><para>February 6th, 2002 [markh]: Appendix A - All
759descriptions now synced and updated.</para></listitem>
760
761<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Changing owner:
762Added <quote>cd /</quote> so the leading slash can be removed from all the
763directories in the chown commands. It's more pleasant to type out this
764way.</para></listitem>
765
766<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
767lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
768
769<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Removed the
770compress symlink. Gzip can uncompress .Z files but it can't compress into
771that format.</para></listitem>
772
773<listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
774lfs-bootscripts-1.3</para></listitem>
775
776<listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Glibc: Instead of
777sed'ing the <filename>config.make</filename> file, create the
778<filename>glibc-build/configparms</filename> file containing
779<quote>cross-compiling = no</quote>.</para></listitem>
780
781<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5: Changed
782the commands to copy the header files to support versions of cp older
783than 4.1.</para></listitem>
784
785<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Added
786CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" to the configure command for patch.
787This fixes compilation on PPC and m68k platforms and doesn't hurt on
788x86.</para></listitem>
789
790<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Mounting proc:
791Rephrased the text a bit (it implied you can only mount the proc fs more
792than once, which isn't true anymore these days).</para></listitem>
793
794<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 5: Enhanced the make
795mrproper explanation.</para></listitem>
796
797<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5+6: Removed
798the --libexecdir flag from fileutils' configure options.</para></listitem>
799
800<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 6: Added a
801symlink from vipw to vigr after installing shadow.</para></listitem>
802
803<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Changed
804binutils and e2fsprogs installation instructions to use separate
805directories ala gcc and glibc.</para></listitem>
806
807<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bootscripts: Added
808a chown root.root after the cp.</para></listitem>
809
810<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Texinfo: the info
811programs works on the /usr/share/info directory not
812/usr/doc/info.</para></listitem>
813
814<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Procps: Fixed typo
815the path to the app-defaults directory (it's
816/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and not
817usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults).</para></listitem>
818
819<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configure
820software: Simplified the commands to create the utmp, btmp, lastlog and
821wtmp files.</para></listitem>
822
823<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter1: Moved
824Acknowledgements to be displayed as the first page in chapter
8251.</para></listitem>
826
827<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Created a separate
828page to list the HTTP and FTP mirrors.</para></listitem>
829
830<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 4 - Creating
831partition: increased the suggested partition size from 750 MB to 1
832GB.</para></listitem>
833
834<listitem><para>January 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Combined
835the <quote>mv libshadow.a /usr/lib</quote> and
836<quote>mv libshadow.la /usr/lib</quote> commands into
837<quote>mv libshadow.*a /usr/lib</quote></para></listitem>
838
839<listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
840lfs-bootscripts-1.2</para></listitem>
841
842<listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Removed the
843datadir option from bisons configure flags, because recent bisons use the
844correct directory by default.</para></listitem>
845
846<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added the section
847Create /etc/mtab symlink.</para></listitem>
848
849<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the file -C command
850from the file installation. This package runs this command at the very end
851of the installation so we don't need to do this anymore.</para></listitem>
852
853<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 4+5+6: The static
854environment is now built as an unprivileged user, removing the risk of
855overwriting files of the host distribution.</para></listitem>
856
857<listitem><para>January 22nd, 2002 [markh]: Back out linuxthreads
858man-page installation instructions as they don't work (they need perl
859which we don't have installed at that point).</para></listitem>
860
861<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to glibc-2.2.5. At
862the same time, fixed the glibc installation so that the linuxthreads man
863pages are installed.</para></listitem>
864
865<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to bison-1.31,
866file-3.37, kernel-2.4.17, psmisc-20.2 and
867sysvinit-2.84.</para></listitem>
868
869<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to util-linux-2.11n
870and removed ADD_RAW=yes as it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>
871
872<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to man-pages-1.47
873and removed the man-pages patch.</para></listitem>
874
875<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A: Added bootscripts
876files (dependencies, download location, descriptions)</para></listitem>
877
878<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added bootscripts
879installation.</para></listitem>
880
881<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 7: Removed most of the
882scripts, only left the part of a few where we set up config files in
883/etc/sysconfig.</para></listitem>
884
885<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configuring
886Sysvinit: Changed the inittab contents to match the new
887bootscripts.</para></listitem>
888
889<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
890the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>
891
892<listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header
893files installation in chapter 5 so it's a bit more portable.</para></listitem>
894
895<listitem><para>January 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Reformatted the dependency
896lists.</para></listitem>
897
898<listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Happy New Year
899LFS!</para></listitem>
900
901<listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [markh]: First Changelog of New Year!
902Update copyright notice to cover 2002 ;-) OK - I'm
903sad...</para></listitem>
904
905<listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Reworded why
906ed is optional to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
907
908<listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Reworded
909the TEXMF explanation to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
910
911<listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 4: Replaced the "One
912partition hint" reference with lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt hint
913reference.</para></listitem>
914
915<listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [markh]: Finish Appendix merge. All
916of the old appendices A, B and D are now in one (large) Appendix
917A.</para></listitem>
918
919<listitem><para>December 14th, 2001 [markh]: Merged appendices A and
920B.</para></listitem>
921
922<listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix B: Changed dbhtml
923tag so that the flex page is now created as flex.html instead of
924flex</para></listitem>
925
926<listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix D: Moved
927metalab.unc.edu and ftp.ibiblio.org references to the proper URL
928ibiblio.org.</para></listitem>
929
930<listitem><para>December 12th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Moved
931the kbd patch to the default installation instructions; upgraded to
932kbd-1.06-2.patch to fix installation of some programs; added the
933descriptions for these programs; removed the loadkeys -d warning that
934was a leftover from the time where loadkeys -d wasn't fixed yet.</para></listitem>
935
936<listitem><para>December 11th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add the "why we
937cd $LFS before chroot" explanation.</para></listitem>
938
939<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add kbd patch
940for loadkeys -d behaviour (patch by Matthias Benkmann; originally posted
941to the lfs-dev list).</para></listitem>
942
943<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Re-create
944symlinks in bash, fileutils and gcc instructions to make the Chapter 6
945instructions independent of those in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
946
947<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: Cleaned
948up the sed commands to use the backup file that was created earlier instead
949of writing to an intermediate 'tmp~' file.</para></listitem>
950
951<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: 'make'
952command for diffutils installation changed to 'make PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr.'
953This bug was reported by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>
954
955<listitem><para>December 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Change the
956configure command from <emphasis>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr</emphasis> to
957<emphasis>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</emphasis>. This is more consistent
958with the installation instructions for the other packages, and the result
959is identical to the old way.</para></listitem>
960
961<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 2: Added the Which
962Platform? section.</para></listitem>
963
964</itemizedlist>
965
966<para>3.1 - December 3rd, 2001</para>
967
968<itemizedlist>
969
970<listitem><para>Added:
971
972<itemizedlist>
973<listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j</para></listitem>
974</itemizedlist>
975
976</para></listitem>
977
978<listitem><para>Updated to:
979
980<itemizedlist>
981<listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.4</para></listitem>
982<listitem><para>bash-2.05a</para></listitem>
983<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.25</para></listitem>
984<listitem><para>gettext-0.10.40</para></listitem>
985<listitem><para>libtool-1.4.2</para></listitem>
986<listitem><para>lilo-22.1</para></listitem>
987<listitem><para>linux-2.4.16</para></listitem>
988<listitem><para>man-1.5j</para></listitem>
989<listitem><para>man-pages-1.43</para></listitem>
990<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.12</para></listitem>
991<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.83</para></listitem>
992<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11m</para></listitem>
993<listitem><para>vim-6.0</para></listitem>
994</itemizedlist>
995
996</para></listitem>
997
998<listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Updated to
999man-1.5j. Removed the sed which we had to use with the old version as
1000the new one detects awk properly.</para></listitem>
1001
1002<listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5: Added static
1003library explanation originally posted on lfs-apps (when it still
1004existed) by Plasmatic.</para></listitem>
1005
1006<listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
1007kernel-2.4.16 and modutils-2.4.12.</para></listitem>
1008
1009<listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added FHS
1010compliance notes to the findutils installation.</para></listitem>
1011
1012<listitem><para>November 19th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
1013bash-2.05a, lilo-22.1, MAKEDEV-1.4, man-pages-1.43 and
1014util-linux-2.11m.</para></listitem>
1015
1016<listitem><para>November 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Created new lex
1017script instead of link to flex following comment on lfs-dev. (This is
1018similar to what we do with bison and yacc).</para></listitem>
1019
1020<listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: General: Large XML Tidy-up.
1021Shouldn't affect the book text or layout. If it does, something has
1022gone wrong!</para></listitem>
1023
1024<listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added
1025reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j and updated to lilo-22.0.2.</para></listitem>
1026
1027<listitem><para>October 24th, 2001 [markh]: General: Fixed a bundle of
1028spelling errors which were reported.</para></listitem>
1029
1030<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Kernel: Added
1031explanation as to why we copy the kernel headers rather than symlink
1032them.</para></listitem>
1033
1034<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added
1035uncompress to the gunzip description as it was
1036missing.</para></listitem>
1037
1038<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
1039Removed the USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin entry as it's no longer needed with
1040util-linux-2.11l.</para></listitem>
1041
1042<listitem><para>October 9th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Kbd: Removed the
1043--datadir option, kbd's default is set properly already.</para></listitem>
1044
1045<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Mentioned
1046the <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt"/>
1047lfs-hint</para></listitem>
1048
1049<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Vim: Changed the
1050installation instructions to fix a bug in vim-6.0's
1051<filename>syntax/sh.vim</filename> file, and added the CPPFLAGS variable
1052to specify the global vimrc file as
1053<filename>/etc/vimrc</filename></para></listitem>
1054
1055<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Updated to
1056libtool-1.4.2, lilo-22.0, man-pages-1.40, modutils-2.4.10, sysvinit-2.83,
1057util-linux-2.11l and vim-6.0</para></listitem>
1058
1059<listitem><para>October 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 9 - The End: Added the
1060reference to the LFS Counter at
1061<ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi"/></para></listitem>
1062
1063<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - News server:
1064Added reference to the news server</para></listitem>
1065
1066<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Changed
1067--with-root-prefix=/ to --with-root-prefix="" in e2fsprogs install
1068instructions. The reason for the change is that a value of / will cause
1069symlinks and installation paths to use things like //lib instead of
1070just /lib. This isn't bad perse, it just doesn't look
1071nice.</para></listitem>
1072
1073<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
1074e2fsprogs-1.25, gettext-0.10.40, linux-2.4.10, modutils-2.4.9 and
1075util-linux-2.11i.</para></listitem>
1076
1077<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
1078descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>
1079
1080</itemizedlist>
1081
1082<para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>
1083
1084<itemizedlist>
1085
1086<listitem><para>Updated to:
1087
1088<itemizedlist>
1089
1090<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>
1091
1092</itemizedlist>
1093
1094</para></listitem>
1095
1096<listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
1097mailing list information to reflect the new ml
1098structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
1099to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>
1100
1101<listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
1102Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
1103--enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads
1104when
1105not specified, it's clearer this way what's being
1106enabled.</para></listitem>
1107
1108<listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
1109Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
1110isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
1111configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
1112rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
1113/bin).</para></listitem>
1114
1115<listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
1116Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
1117/usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
1118/usr/bin.</para></listitem>
1119
1120<listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
1121Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>
1122
1123<listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
1124missing &amp;&amp; to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
1125instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
1126running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>
1127
1128</itemizedlist>
1129
1130</sect1>
1131
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