Linux From Scratch

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September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Gawk: Updated the Gawk patch. It also changes the DDEFPATH directory location now.

September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Procps: Added patch that fixes a locale problem that makes top crash under certain locale settings.

September 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 – Creating a file system: Referenced alternative filesystems in BLFS.

September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all superfluous /usr/lib/*.so symbolic links from library installations.

September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to lfs-bootscripts-1.10

September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Configure Sysvinit: Changed the sulogin line to once instead of having it respawn. This way it'll behave as expected (ie: a CTRL+D will continue instead of restart sulogin).

September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – GCC: Added the –enable- clocale=gnu option to ensure the proper locale mode is used by the C++ libraries.

September 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Grammatic changes.

September 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's grammar changes patch.

September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Gzip: Added gzip-1.2.4b.patch.

September 7th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – Textutils: Added re_max_failures2 for old host systems.

September 2nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Bash: Removed creation of sh symlink. Creating the bash and sh symlinks: Added /bin/bash symlink, symlinked sh to bash. Gzip, Sysvinit, Util-Linux: Shortened cp command. Makedev: Removed /bin/bash creation and removal. Man: Modified sed statement to edit less call, so SGR will work.

September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – About debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences.

September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – Install all software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the compilation of symbols in static packages.

August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Makedev: Put rm /bin/bash after device creation. Perl: Removed information about the old patch.

August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – GCC: Re-added HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN; removed –enable- __cxa-atexit which was incorrect and not needed in this chapter; added information about the patch.

August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new Glibc patch and introducted a GCC patch.

August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to automake-1.6.3, gcc-3.2, groff-1.18, makedev-1.7, perl-5.8.0, util-linux-2.11u

August 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Appendix: Added missing URLs to patches.

August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06: Changed ln -sf to ln -s wherever possible.

August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Binutils: cp libiberty.h after install, as it is needed by certain software. Shadow: added command to remove the groups program installed by Shadow because Sh-utils installs a (better) groups program.

August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – Sh-utils: Re-added sh-utils-2.0.patch.

August 16th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Move man-pages to just after the kernel headers installation.

August 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Move the MAKEDEV installation to before glibc and remove the temporary creation of /dev/null as we don't need it anymore.

August 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 – Preparing a new partition: mentioned that a swap partition can be shared between the LFS and host systems, grammatic changes.

August 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed the –with-curses switch from the Bash installation as it's unnecessary here.

August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to modutils-2.4.19, linux-2.4.19, gettext-0.11.5, binutils-2.13, textutils-2.1.

August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Vim: changed alternative editors link from hints to BLFS.

August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Ncurses: removed the –disable- termcap configure option. Termcap is disabled by default now, so no need for this option (left over from a long time ago when it was needed).

August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Linux: Added the command cp include/asm-generic /usr/include. There are programs which use the files in there, as well as headers in the asm directory may be split up in the future, and put in the asm-generic.

August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Gettext: added the missing program description of msgcat.

August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4.

August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52, man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils- 2.4.18.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs. Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 & 05 – Creating a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils, Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to auto-host.h.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Glibc: added –disable-profile flag.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 – Linux: added information about modules and kernel documentation.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system: added a command to remove the static directory.

July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step.

July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Sysvinit: Simplified the sed command and updated the installation description because init now prints «Sending processes» instead of «Sending all processes».

July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change – Made all patches use a &package-patch-version; entity and removed all hardcoding of patch versions.

June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and automake-1.6.2

June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Shadow, Util-linux, LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents.

June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Net-tools, Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison, Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps, Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents.

June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 & 06 – M4, Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added «last checked against» for uniformity. GCC: Removed i686-specific programs.

June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Gettext: Updated package contents.

June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Binutils, Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description of c++filt.

June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – The End: Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-4.0 to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version number inside this file.

June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – GCC: Modified the build instructions and command explanations to only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed until after the second GCC build.

June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Shadow: grammatic changes.

June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Gawk: Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils: Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC: Updated the package contents.

June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the estimated required disk space.

June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Creating Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p option to mkdir which will create the usr directory anyways.