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10
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>February 3, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
44 download.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 </itemizedlist>
47 </listitem>
48
49 <listitem>
50 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
51 <itemizedlist>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
54 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
55 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
56 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript
60 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 </itemizedlist>
66 </listitem>
67
68 <listitem>
69 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
70 <itemizedlist>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
73 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
74 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
75 </listitem>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
78 Staub.</para>
79 </listitem>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
82 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
83 </listitem>
84 </itemizedlist>
85 </listitem>
86
87 <listitem>
88 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
89 <itemizedlist>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
92 </listitem>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
95 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
96 </listitem>
97 </itemizedlist>
98 </listitem>
99
100 <listitem>
101 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
102 <itemizedlist>
103 <listitem>
104 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
105 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
106 </listitem>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
109 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
110 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
111 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
112 </listitem>
113 <listitem>
114 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
115 section.</para>
116 </listitem>
117 </itemizedlist>
118 </listitem>
119
120 <listitem>
121 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
122 <itemizedlist>
123 <listitem>
124 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
125 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
126 </listitem>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
129 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
130 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
131 </listitem>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
134 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
135 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
136 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
137 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
138 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
139 issue.</para>
140 </listitem>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
143 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
144 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
145 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
146 </listitem>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
149 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
150 </listitem>
151 </itemizedlist>
152 </listitem>
153
154 <listitem>
155 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
156 <itemizedlist>
157 <listitem>
158 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
159 </listitem>
160 </itemizedlist>
161 </listitem>
162
163 <listitem>
164 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
165 <itemizedlist>
166 <listitem>
167 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
168 </listitem>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
171 </listitem>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
174 </listitem>
175 <listitem>
176 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
177 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
178 </listitem>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
181 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
182 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
183 </listitem>
184 </itemizedlist>
185 </listitem>
186
187 <listitem>
188 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
189 <itemizedlist>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
192 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
193 it out.</para>
194 </listitem>
195 </itemizedlist>
196 </listitem>
197
198 <listitem>
199 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
200 <itemizedlist>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
203 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
204 </listitem>
205 </itemizedlist>
206 </listitem>
207
208 <listitem>
209 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
210 <itemizedlist>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
213 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
214 to Greg Schafer.</para>
215 </listitem>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
218 gccbug.</para>
219 </listitem>
220 </itemizedlist>
221 </listitem>
222
223 <listitem>
224 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
225 <itemizedlist>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
228 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
229 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
230 for explaining this.</para>
231 </listitem>
232 <listitem>
233 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
234 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
235 </listitem>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
238 use mktemp.</para>
239 </listitem>
240 <listitem>
241 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
242 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
243 Randy McMurchy.</para>
244 </listitem>
245 </itemizedlist>
246 </listitem>
247
248 <listitem>
249 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
250 <itemizedlist>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
253 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
254 </listitem>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
257 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
258 </listitem>
259 </itemizedlist>
260 </listitem>
261
262 <listitem>
263 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
264 <itemizedlist>
265 <listitem>
266 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
267 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
268 </listitem>
269 <listitem>
270 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
271 </listitem>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
274 </listitem>
275 <listitem>
276 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
277 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
278 </listitem>
279 </itemizedlist>
280 </listitem>
281
282 <listitem>
283 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
284 <itemizedlist>
285 <listitem>
286 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
287 to be repeatable.</para>
288 </listitem>
289 </itemizedlist>
290 </listitem>
291
292 <listitem>
293 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
294 <itemizedlist>
295 <listitem>
296 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
297 </listitem>
298 </itemizedlist>
299 </listitem>
300
301 <listitem>
302 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
303 <itemizedlist>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
306 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
307 </listitem>
308 </itemizedlist>
309 </listitem>
310
311 <listitem>
312 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
313 <itemizedlist>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
316 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
317 </listitem>
318 <listitem>
319 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
320 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
321 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
322 </listitem>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
325 </listitem>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
328 </listitem>
329 </itemizedlist>
330 </listitem>
331
332 <listitem>
333 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
334 <itemizedlist>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
337 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
338 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
339 bug 1670).</para>
340 </listitem>
341 </itemizedlist>
342 </listitem>
343
344 <listitem>
345 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
346 <itemizedlist>
347 <listitem>
348 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
349 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
350 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
351 </listitem>
352 </itemizedlist>
353 </listitem>
354
355 <listitem>
356 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
357 <itemizedlist>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
360 </listitem>
361 <listitem>
362 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
363 </listitem>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
366 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
367 </listitem>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
370 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
371 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
372 </listitem>
373 <listitem>
374 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
375 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
376 </listitem>
377 </itemizedlist>
378 </listitem>
379
380 <listitem>
381 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
382 <itemizedlist>
383 <listitem>
384 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
385 </listitem>
386 <listitem>
387 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
388 </para>
389 </listitem>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
392 </listitem>
393 </itemizedlist>
394 </listitem>
395
396 <listitem>
397 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
398 <itemizedlist>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
401 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
402 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
403 </listitem>
404 </itemizedlist>
405 </listitem>
406
407 <listitem>
408 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
409 <itemizedlist>
410 <listitem>
411 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
412 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
413 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
414 </listitem>
415 <listitem>
416 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
417 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
418 </listitem>
419 <listitem>
420 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
421 </listitem>
422 <listitem>
423 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
424 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
425 McMurchy for the report).</para>
426 </listitem>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
429 </listitem>
430 <listitem>
431 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
432 </listitem>
433 <listitem>
434 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
435 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
436 </listitem>
437 </itemizedlist>
438 </listitem>
439
440 <listitem>
441 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
442 <itemizedlist>
443 <listitem>
444 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
445 </listitem>
446 </itemizedlist>
447 </listitem>
448
449 <listitem>
450 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
451 <itemizedlist>
452 <listitem>
453 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
454 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
455 </listitem>
456 </itemizedlist>
457 </listitem>
458
459 <listitem>
460 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
461 <itemizedlist>
462 <listitem>
463 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
464 package.</para>
465 </listitem>
466 </itemizedlist>
467 </listitem>
468
469 <listitem>
470 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
471 <itemizedlist>
472 <listitem>
473 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
474 </listitem>
475 </itemizedlist>
476 </listitem>
477
478 <listitem>
479 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
480 <itemizedlist>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
483 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
484 </listitem>
485 </itemizedlist>
486 </listitem>
487
488 <listitem>
489 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
490 <itemizedlist>
491 <listitem>
492 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
493 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
494 </listitem>
495 </itemizedlist>
496 </listitem>
497
498 <listitem>
499 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
500 <itemizedlist>
501 <listitem>
502 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
503 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
504 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
505 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
506 </listitem>
507 </itemizedlist>
508 </listitem>
509
510 <listitem>
511 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
512 <itemizedlist>
513 <listitem>
514 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
515 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
516 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
517 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
518 </listitem>
519 </itemizedlist>
520 </listitem>
521
522 <listitem>
523 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
524 <itemizedlist>
525 <listitem>
526 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
527 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
528 </listitem>
529 </itemizedlist>
530 </listitem>
531
532 <listitem>
533 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
534 <itemizedlist>
535 <listitem>
536 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
537 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
538 </listitem>
539 <listitem>
540 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
541 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
542 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
543 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
544 </listitem>
545 </itemizedlist>
546 </listitem>
547
548 <listitem>
549 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
550 <itemizedlist>
551 <listitem>
552 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
553 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
554 </listitem>
555 <listitem>
556 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
557 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
558 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
559 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
560 </listitem>
561 <listitem>
562 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
563 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
564 report and the fix.</para>
565 </listitem>
566 <listitem>
567 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
568 </listitem>
569 <listitem>
570 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
571 </listitem>
572 <listitem>
573 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
574 </listitem>
575 </itemizedlist>
576 </listitem>
577
578 <listitem>
579 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
580 <itemizedlist>
581 <listitem>
582 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
583 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
584 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
585 </listitem>
586 </itemizedlist>
587 </listitem>
588
589 <listitem>
590 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
591 <itemizedlist>
592 <listitem>
593 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
594 </listitem>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
597 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
598 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
599 </listitem>
600 </itemizedlist>
601 </listitem>
602
603 <listitem>
604 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
605 <itemizedlist>
606 <listitem>
607 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
608 </listitem>
609 <listitem>
610 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
611 </listitem>
612 <listitem>
613 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
614 </listitem>
615 <listitem>
616 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
617 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
618 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
619 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
620 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
621 of LFS.</para>
622 </listitem>
623 </itemizedlist>
624 </listitem>
625
626 <listitem>
627 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
628 <itemizedlist>
629 <listitem>
630 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
631 </listitem>
632 <listitem>
633 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
634 </listitem>
635 <listitem>
636 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
637 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
638 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
639 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
640 </listitem>
641 </itemizedlist>
642 </listitem>
643
644 <listitem>
645 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
646 <itemizedlist>
647 <listitem>
648 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
649 </listitem>
650 </itemizedlist>
651 </listitem>
652
653 <listitem>
654 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
655 <itemizedlist>
656 <listitem>
657 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
658 </listitem>
659 <listitem>
660 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
661 </listitem>
662 <listitem>
663 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
664 </listitem>
665 </itemizedlist>
666 </listitem>
667
668 <listitem>
669 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
670 <itemizedlist>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
673 </listitem>
674 <listitem>
675 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
676 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
677 </listitem>
678 <listitem>
679 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
680 file</para>
681 </listitem>
682 </itemizedlist>
683 </listitem>
684
685 <listitem>
686 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
687 <itemizedlist>
688 <listitem>
689 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
690 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
691 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
692 </listitem>
693 </itemizedlist>
694 </listitem>
695
696 <listitem>
697 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
698 <itemizedlist>
699 <listitem>
700 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
701 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
702 </listitem>
703 <listitem>
704 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
705 </listitem>
706 </itemizedlist>
707 </listitem>
708
709 <listitem>
710 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
711 <itemizedlist>
712 <listitem>
713 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
714 </listitem>
715 </itemizedlist>
716 </listitem>
717
718 <listitem>
719 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
720 <itemizedlist>
721 <listitem>
722 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
723 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
724 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
725 </listitem>
726 </itemizedlist>
727 </listitem>
728
729 <listitem>
730 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
731 <itemizedlist>
732 <listitem>
733 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
734 bug 1629).</para>
735 </listitem>
736 <listitem>
737 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
738 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
739 </listitem>
740 </itemizedlist>
741 </listitem>
742
743 <listitem>
744 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
745 <itemizedlist>
746 <listitem>
747 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
748 </listitem>
749 </itemizedlist>
750 </listitem>
751
752 <listitem>
753 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
754 <itemizedlist>
755 <listitem>
756 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
757 </listitem>
758 <listitem>
759 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
760 </listitem>
761 <listitem>
762 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
763 </listitem>
764 </itemizedlist>
765 </listitem>
766
767 <listitem>
768 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
769 <itemizedlist>
770 <listitem>
771 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
772 </listitem>
773 </itemizedlist>
774 </listitem>
775
776 <listitem>
777 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
778 <itemizedlist>
779 <listitem>
780 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
781 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
782 </listitem>
783 <listitem>
784 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
785 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
786 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
787 </listitem>
788 </itemizedlist>
789 </listitem>
790
791 <listitem>
792 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
793 <itemizedlist>
794 <listitem>
795 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
796 vulnerability.</para>
797 </listitem>
798 </itemizedlist>
799 </listitem>
800
801 <listitem>
802 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
803 <itemizedlist>
804 <listitem>
805 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
806 </listitem>
807 </itemizedlist>
808 </listitem>
809
810 <listitem>
811 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
812 <itemizedlist>
813 <listitem>
814 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
815 </listitem>
816 </itemizedlist>
817 </listitem>
818
819 <listitem>
820 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
821 <itemizedlist>
822 <listitem>
823 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
824 </listitem>
825 </itemizedlist>
826 </listitem>
827
828 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
829 <itemizedlist>
830 <listitem>
831 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
832 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
833 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
834 </listitem>
835 <listitem>
836 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
837 </listitem>
838 <listitem>
839 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
840 </listitem>
841 </itemizedlist>
842 </listitem>
843
844 <listitem>
845 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
846 <itemizedlist>
847 <listitem>
848 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
849 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
850 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
851 to actually work.</para>
852 </listitem>
853 <listitem>
854 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
855 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
856 </listitem>
857 </itemizedlist>
858 </listitem>
859
860 <listitem>
861 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
862 <itemizedlist>
863 <listitem>
864 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
865 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
866 </listitem>
867 <listitem>
868 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
869 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
870 </listitem>
871 <listitem>
872 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
873 </listitem>
874 <listitem>
875 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
876 gcc-pass2.</para>
877 </listitem>
878 </itemizedlist>
879 </listitem>
880
881 <listitem>
882 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
883 <itemizedlist>
884 <listitem>
885 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
886 builds for consistency</para>
887 </listitem>
888 </itemizedlist>
889 </listitem>
890
891 <listitem>
892 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
893 <itemizedlist>
894 <listitem>
895 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
896 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
897 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
898 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
899 </listitem>
900 <listitem>
901 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
902 rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
903 </listitem>
904 <listitem>
905 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
906 </listitem>
907 </itemizedlist>
908 </listitem>
909
910 <listitem>
911 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
912 <itemizedlist>
913 <listitem>
914 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
915 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
916 </listitem>
917 </itemizedlist>
918 </listitem>
919
920 <listitem>
921 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
922 <itemizedlist>
923 <listitem>
924 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
925 </listitem>
926 <listitem>
927 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
928 </listitem>
929 <listitem>
930 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
931 </listitem>
932 </itemizedlist>
933 </listitem>
934
935 <listitem>
936 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
937 <itemizedlist>
938 <listitem>
939 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
940 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
941 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
942 </listitem>
943 <listitem>
944 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
945 filenames.</para>
946 </listitem>
947 </itemizedlist>
948 </listitem>
949
950 <listitem>
951 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
952 <itemizedlist>
953 <listitem>
954 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
955 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
956 </listitem>
957 <listitem>
958 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
959 </listitem>
960 </itemizedlist>
961 </listitem>
962
963 <listitem>
964 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
965 <itemizedlist>
966 <listitem>
967 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
968 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
969 </listitem>
970 </itemizedlist>
971 </listitem>
972
973 <listitem>
974 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
975 <itemizedlist>
976 <listitem>
977 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
978 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
979 </listitem>
980 <listitem>
981 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
982 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
983 </listitem>
984 <listitem>
985 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
986 bug 1603).</para>
987 </listitem>
988 <listitem>
989 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
990 </listitem>
991 <listitem>
992 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
993 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
994 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
995 </listitem>
996 <listitem>
997 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
998 test (bug 1611).</para>
999 </listitem>
1000 </itemizedlist>
1001 </listitem>
1002
1003 <listitem>
1004 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
1005 <itemizedlist>
1006 <listitem>
1007 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
1008 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
1009 </listitem>
1010 <listitem>
1011 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
1012 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
1013 </listitem>
1014 <listitem>
1015 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1016 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1017 </listitem>
1018 <listitem>
1019 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1020 of chapter 6.</para>
1021 </listitem>
1022 <listitem>
1023 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1024 library (Bug 1608)</para>
1025 </listitem>
1026 </itemizedlist>
1027 </listitem>
1028
1029 <listitem>
1030 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1031 <itemizedlist>
1032 <listitem>
1033 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1034 from BLFS first.</para>
1035 </listitem>
1036 </itemizedlist>
1037 </listitem>
1038
1039 <listitem>
1040 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1041 <itemizedlist>
1042 <listitem>
1043 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1044 </listitem>
1045 <listitem>
1046 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1047 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1048 </listitem>
1049 </itemizedlist>
1050 </listitem>
1051
1052 <listitem>
1053 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1054 <itemizedlist>
1055 <listitem>
1056 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1057 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1058 </listitem>
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1061 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1062 </listitem>
1063 </itemizedlist>
1064 </listitem>
1065
1066 <listitem>
1067 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1068 <itemizedlist>
1069 <listitem>
1070 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1071 </listitem>
1072 </itemizedlist>
1073 </listitem>
1074
1075 <listitem>
1076 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1077 <itemizedlist>
1078 <listitem>
1079 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
1080 </listitem>
1081 <listitem>
1082 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
1083 </listitem>
1084 <listitem>
1085 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1086 The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
1087 </listitem>
1088 <listitem>
1089 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
1090 </listitem>
1091 </itemizedlist>
1092 </listitem>
1093
1094 <listitem>
1095 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1096 <itemizedlist>
1097 <listitem>
1098 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1099 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1100 </listitem>
1101 </itemizedlist>
1102 </listitem>
1103
1104 <listitem>
1105 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1106 <itemizedlist>
1107 <listitem>
1108 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1109 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1110 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1111 </listitem>
1112 <listitem>
1113 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1114 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1115 </listitem>
1116 </itemizedlist>
1117 </listitem>
1118
1119 <listitem>
1120 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1121 <itemizedlist>
1122 <listitem>
1123 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1124 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1125 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1126 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1127 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1128 </listitem>
1129 <listitem>
1130 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1131 </listitem>
1132 <listitem>
1133 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1134 </listitem>
1135 </itemizedlist>
1136 </listitem>
1137
1138 <listitem>
1139 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1140 <itemizedlist>
1141 <listitem>
1142 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1143 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1144 </listitem>
1145 </itemizedlist>
1146 </listitem>
1147
1148 <listitem>
1149 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1150 <itemizedlist>
1151 <listitem>
1152 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
1153 </listitem>
1154 <listitem>
1155 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1156 needed.</para>
1157 </listitem>
1158 </itemizedlist>
1159 </listitem>
1160
1161 <listitem>
1162 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1163 <itemizedlist>
1164 <listitem>
1165 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1166 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1167 </listitem>
1168 </itemizedlist>
1169 </listitem>
1170
1171 <listitem>
1172 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1173 <itemizedlist>
1174 <listitem>
1175 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1176 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1177 of the specs patch.</para>
1178 </listitem>
1179 <listitem>
1180 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1181 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1182 </listitem>
1183 </itemizedlist>
1184 </listitem>
1185
1186 <listitem>
1187 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1188 <itemizedlist>
1189 <listitem>
1190 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1191 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1192 </listitem>
1193 <listitem>
1194 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1195 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1196 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1197 </listitem>
1198 </itemizedlist>
1199 </listitem>
1200
1201 <listitem>
1202 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1203 <itemizedlist>
1204 <listitem>
1205 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1206 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1207 </listitem>
1208 <listitem>
1209 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1210 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1211 </listitem>
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1214 5 and 6.</para>
1215 </listitem>
1216 </itemizedlist>
1217 </listitem>
1218
1219 <listitem>
1220 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1221 <itemizedlist>
1222 <listitem>
1223 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1224 </listitem>
1225 <listitem>
1226 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1227 </listitem>
1228 <listitem>
1229 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1230 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1231 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1232 </listitem>
1233 <listitem>
1234 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1235 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1236 </listitem>
1237 <listitem>
1238 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1239 </listitem>
1240 <listitem>
1241 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1242 </listitem>
1243 </itemizedlist>
1244 </listitem>
1245
1246 <listitem>
1247 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1248 <itemizedlist>
1249 <listitem>
1250 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1251 </listitem>
1252 </itemizedlist>
1253 </listitem>
1254
1255 <listitem>
1256 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1257 <itemizedlist>
1258 <listitem>
1259 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1260 </listitem>
1261 <listitem>
1262 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1263 </listitem>
1264 <listitem>
1265 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1266 </listitem>
1267 <listitem>
1268 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1269 </listitem>
1270 <listitem>
1271 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1272 </listitem>
1273 </itemizedlist>
1274 </listitem>
1275
1276 <listitem>
1277 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1278 <itemizedlist>
1279 <listitem>
1280 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1281 as it is not needed.</para>
1282 </listitem>
1283 <listitem>
1284 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1285 </listitem>
1286 <listitem>
1287 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1288 </listitem>
1289 </itemizedlist>
1290 </listitem>
1291
1292 <listitem>
1293 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1294 <itemizedlist>
1295 <listitem>
1296 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1297 </listitem>
1298 <listitem>
1299 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1300 </listitem>
1301 <listitem>
1302 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1303 </listitem>
1304 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1305 </listitem>
1306 </itemizedlist>
1307 </listitem>
1308
1309 <listitem>
1310 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1311 <itemizedlist>
1312 <listitem>
1313 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1314 </listitem>
1315 <listitem>
1316 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1317 </listitem>
1318 <listitem>
1319 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1320 </listitem>
1321 <listitem>
1322 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1323 </listitem>
1324 </itemizedlist>
1325 </listitem>
1326
1327 <listitem>
1328 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1329 <itemizedlist>
1330 <listitem>
1331 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1332 </listitem>
1333 </itemizedlist>
1334 </listitem>
1335
1336 <listitem>
1337 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1338 <itemizedlist>
1339 <listitem>
1340 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1341 </listitem>
1342 </itemizedlist>
1343 </listitem>
1344
1345 <listitem>
1346 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1347 <itemizedlist>
1348 <listitem>
1349 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1350 </listitem>
1351 <listitem>
1352 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1353 </listitem>
1354 <listitem>
1355 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1356 </listitem>
1357 <listitem>
1358 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1359 </listitem>
1360 </itemizedlist>
1361 </listitem>
1362
1363 <listitem>
1364 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1365 <itemizedlist>
1366 <listitem>
1367 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1368 </listitem>
1369 <listitem>
1370 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1371 </listitem>
1372 <listitem>
1373 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
1374 </listitem>
1375 </itemizedlist>
1376 </listitem>
1377
1378 <listitem>
1379 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
1380 <itemizedlist>
1381 <listitem>
1382 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
1383 </listitem>
1384 </itemizedlist>
1385 </listitem>
1386
1387 <listitem>
1388 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
1389 <itemizedlist>
1390 <listitem>
1391 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
1392 </listitem>
1393 <listitem>
1394 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
1395 </listitem>
1396 </itemizedlist>
1397 </listitem>
1398
1399 <listitem>
1400 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
1401 <itemizedlist>
1402 <listitem>
1403 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
1404 </listitem>
1405 </itemizedlist>
1406 </listitem>
1407
1408 <listitem>
1409 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
1410 <itemizedlist>
1411 <listitem>
1412 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
1413 </listitem>
1414 </itemizedlist>
1415 </listitem>
1416
1417 <listitem>
1418 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
1419 <itemizedlist>
1420 <listitem>
1421 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
1422 </listitem>
1423 </itemizedlist>
1424 </listitem>
1425
1426 </itemizedlist>
1427
1428 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
1429 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
1430
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