These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0): * Chapter 5 fileutils, gcc, linux: instead of for example: ln -s ../../bin/install install change it to ln -s ../../bin/install This just shortens the command a bit and it looks better. * Chapter 5, gcc: change the title * Chapter 5, gzip: don't pass --disable-nls - it has no function on the gzip package * Chapter 5, tar: remove prefix=$LFS/usr from the 'make install' * Chapter 5, mawk: instead of putting -static in CFLAGS which is sloppy sed the Makefile to add an LDFLAGS variable similar to what we do with bzip2 in chapter 5 * Chapter 5, makedev: instead of sed "s/.../.../" put the quotations marks inside the search reg ex (sed s/"..."/.../). * Chapter 5, makedev: cd to $LFS/dev first, then cp to makedev-temp and patch it. * Chapter 6, glibc: after copying pt_chown set mode 4755 on it (Glibc doesn't do this because it failed to copy pt_chown. It tried to chown root it which failed because glibc wasn't fully installed yet) * Chapter 5, bash: add note that when error occurs regarding install-info (on Debian systems for example) it can be safely ignored. * Chapter 5, kernel: Remove the exessive explanations. Just the commands in sequence like with any other package and explain below in the "command explanations" * Chapter 5, bash: when the 'install-info' error corrurs on Debian systems, check if this affects && (the message is Error 2 (ignored) but does that mean the return value is set to 0 as well...) * Check if findutils dumps binaries in /usr/local/bin * Try out latest shadow suite. If it fails with "nflg undefined" change this in useradd.c : line 1768: -if (! (nflg || gflg)) { +if (!gflg) { * Make a note that during the first reboot an error from sysklogd is normal due to missing /etc/services|protocols files which are installed when netkit-base is installed later on in chapter 9 * Chapter 3: mention lfs-packages isn't for CVS * Fix the static link problems some distro's are causing * Clean out the ethnet script (for interface in $(ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg* | grep -v ifcfg-lo) do) needs some updating for example) * Don't use \u in PS1 when entering chroot to avoid the 'i have no name'. After Glibc installation we could modify the PS1 (export PS1=newvalues) and test that way if glibc is working properly. This saves us the having to exit and re-end chroot environtment. Another idea is to run 'id' or 'whoami' after Glibc installation and check if it's able to find a matching username with root's id. * Instead of rm file && ln -s source dest, use ln -sf source dest * e2fsprogs apparently needs ldconfig. Check if there are other packages before e2fsprogs which use ldconfig when it's present * Mention more hints through out the books (like BSD hint before staring with chapter 7, devfs hint before running MAKEDEV, etc) * Fix the layout of intel/chapter7/usage.xml * Consider ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/kbd/ to replace console-tools/console-data * Try new procps install: make OPT="$CFLAGS" INCDIRS='-I/usr/include -I.' XSCPT='' install * When installing Glibc in chapter 6 the mtrace program isn't build. Find out why. * Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book * Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on package b", but a list of "package a depends on b and c from package d" * Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs. * Mention security patches that can be applied to packages. * Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly. * Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt and the patch to the 'patch' package at: http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch * Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip patches) * Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the currently used one. A copy can be found at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV * Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A. * Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'