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