Changelog

4.1 - April 28th, 2003

• Upgraded to:

  • autoconf-2.57

  • automake-1.7.2

  • bison-1.875

  • e2fsprogs-1.32

  • gawk-3.1.1-3.patch

  • gcc-3.2.1

  • glibc-2.3.1

  • groff-1.18.1

  • kbd-1.08

  • less-378

  • lfs-bootscripts-1.11

  • libtool-1.4.3

  • linux-2.4.20

  • make-3.80

  • man-1.5k-2.patch

  • man-pages-1.54

  • modutils-2.4.22

  • ncurses-5.3

  • procps-3.1.5

  • psmisc-21.2

  • sed-4.0.5

  • texinfo-4.3

  • util-linux-2.11y

• Added:

  • findutils-4.1-segfault.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch

  • kbd-1.08.patch

  • man-1.5k-80cols.patch

  • man-1.5k-manpath.patch

  • man-1.5k-pager.patch

• Removed:

  • gcc-3.2.1-nofixincludes-2.patch

  • glibc-2.3.1.patch

  • kbd-1.06-3.patch

  • man-1.5k-2.patch

  • ncurses-5.2-2.patch

• February 3rd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to lfs-bootscripts-1.11 to implement Seth Klein's mtab changes (see entry below this one).

• February 3rd, 2003 [sklein]: Chapter 06: Changed /etc/mtab from a symlink to a file.

• January 29th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC: Changed the install target to install-no-fixedincludes.

• January 29th, 2003 [gerard]: Downgraded to binutils-2.13.2 due to a GCC bug that can't parse the version string of binutils 2.13.2.1. The only changes between 2.13.2 and 2.13.2.1 are documentation changes, so there is no actual code downgrade. A better fix will be added to the book later.

• January 27th, 2003 [gerard, timothy, billy]: Converted the software installation pages into a new format. Also merged software installations with their configure components from "Configuring essential software".

• January 22nd, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Configuring essential software: Corrected kernel directory for keymap location.

• January 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Added a new chroot command after the second Glibc installation that is to be used from that point onwards.

• January 9th, 2003 [timothy]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added patch URL.

• January 9th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Findutils: Removed -D_GNU_SOURCE flag for now because it's breaking compilation; 4 people have reported this bug.

• January 8th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added missing / before configure line.

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bison: removed yacc script creation. Bison now installs this by default.

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to Binutils-2.13.2.1, Bison-1.875 and Man-pages-1.54

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Findutils: Added CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE to promote proper compiling on non-x86 architectures.

• January 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Zlib: Added CFLAGS variable to define -fPIC so the dynamic library gets compiled properly at all times.

• January 5th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Applied a revised version of Alex's patch to split the Install all software as an unprivileged user page into two pages: Adding the user lfs and Setting up the environment.

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - All packages whose configure script supports the LDFLAGS environment variable now use it rather than passing the variable down to make.

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Fixed the gawk patch. make uninstall will no longer wipe out the /usr/bin directory. Also, renamed /usr/share/gawk to /usr/share/gawk-3.1.1.

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the glibc-2.3.1 mega-patch with two separate patches (glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch and glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch).

• January 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Replaced the man-1.5k mega-patch with three separate patches (man-1.5k-80cols.patch, man-1.5k-manpath.patch and man-1.5k-pager.patch).

• January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc Second Pass: Fixed typo in linuxthreads man pages installation.

• January 1st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux Kernel: The man pages can't be installed here because it requires Perl. Moved to end of chapter 6.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Updated the patch so man pages are formatted properly on screens with more than 80 columns.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linux: Added make mandocs to create man pages and copy them to /usr/share/man/man9

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Changed the download location to http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added second Glibc installation at the end of the chapter. Removed the separate linuxthreads man-pages installation and moved that to the second Glibc installation.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to Glibc-2.3.1

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed nofixincludes patch and use the built-in install-no-fixedincludes make target.

• December 31st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN, added --with-ld and --with-as configure switches.

• December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to binutils-2.13.2, procps-3.1.5.

• December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05: Changed all LDFLAGS=-static to LDFLAGS="-static".

• December 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Flex: Added symlink from libfl.a to libl.a.

• December 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to sed-4.0.5.

• December 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to procps-3.1.4.

• December 17th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 5 & 6: Modified paragraphs about unpacking patches since they are no longer compressed.

• December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.2, binutils-2.13.1, e2fsprogs-1.32, gcc-3.2.1, libtool-1.4.3, linux-2.4.20, modutils-2.4.22, procps-3.1.3, sed-4.0.4, texinfo-4.3, util-linux-2.11y.

• December 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Removed warning about --enable-kernel.

• December 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Changed all links into Freshmeat.net project links, removed lfs-packages tarball. This was done because the LFS FTP archive won't contain the packages anymore, instead you have to go to the package's download sites to get them.

• December 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Renamed usbdevfs into usbfs as the kernel guys made this change to reduce confusion with devfs.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sed: Added --disable-nls

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 03 - Creating filesystem: Added a note that mkswap has to be run if a new swap partition has been created.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed unnecessary lines that first create a symlink, then remove it again.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bzip2: Updated the download URL.

• December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Removed the PROCESSEDEXAMPLEFILES="" variables.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface: Added "Prerequisites" section.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09: Added "What now?" section.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Appendix B.

• October 25th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Which Platform" section.

• October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Swapped chapter03 and chapter04.

• October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Removed "Where to store the downloaded software" and "How to install the software" sections.

• October 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to bison-1.75, sed-4.0. Moved m4 before bison to meet its dependency.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Linux-2.4.19: Replaced mkdir /usr/include/asm and cp command with cp -HR.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added findutils-4.1-segfault.patch to fix a segfault in locate when it encounters a very long path name.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Added libtool-1.4.2.patch to fix an incompatibility between Autoconf 2.53 and Libtool 1.4.x.

• October 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Upgraded to automake-1.7.1, modutils-2.4.21, man-pages-1.53, kbd-1.08, util-linux-2.11w, autoconf-2.54, e2fsprogs-1.29, groff-1.18.1, psmisc-21.2, less-378, procps-3.0.4, make-3.80, ncurses-5.3.

• October 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Uncompressed patches.

• October 13th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Added -s to CC argument to make it consistent.

• October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Switched to gcc-core and gcc-g++.

• October 6th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.

4.0 - October 5th, 2002

• October 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Linuxthreads: Instead of cd man use the -C option to make which makes a lot more sense (and it's shorter too).

• September 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Fixed the old nofixincludes patch and reinstated it.

• September 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Correct reference to Debian to refer to the old stable release (potato) as it doesn't apply to the current one (woody). Reported by h2k1 on #lfs.

4.0-RC1 - September 28th, 2002

• Upgraded to:

  • automake-1.6.3

  • bin86-0.16.3

  • binutils-2.13

  • bison-1.35

  • diffutils-2.8.1

  • file-3.39

  • gawk-3.1.1

  • gcc-3.2

  • gettext-0.11.5

  • groff-1.18

  • gzip-1.2.4b.patch

  • lfs-bootscripts-1.10

  • linux-2.4.19

  • MAKEDEV-1.7

  • man-1.5k

  • man-pages-1.52

  • modutils-2.4.19

  • ncurses-5.2-2.patch

  • perl-5.8.0

  • psmisc-21

  • texinfo-4.2

  • textutils-2.1

  • util-linux-2.11u

• Added:

  • ed-0.2.patch

  • fileutils-4.1.patch

  • gawk-3.1.1-2.patch

  • gcc-3.2.patch

  • gcc-3.2-nofixincludes.patch

  • glibc-2.2.5-2.patch

  • gzip-1.2.4b.patch

  • kbd-1.06-3.patch

  • man-1.5k.patch

  • ncurses-5.2.patch

  • procps-2.0.7.patch

  • sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch

  • vim-6.1.patch

  • zlib-1.1.4

• Removed:

  • gzip-1.2.4a.patch

  • kbd-1.06-2.patch

  • reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b

• September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Added the nofixincludes patch to prevent that script from running in Chapter 05. It should run in Chapter 06, so we need it to be a separate patch.

• September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Replaced the sed construction with a regular patch.

• September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed the PREFIX=/usr from the make install command because the PREFIX is already set to /usr by default.

• September 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Removed the FHS compliance notes. They are bogus because Vim doesn't use the localstatedir at all.

• September 28th, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch. Changed "$LFS" to "LFS" when speaking of the LFS environment variable.

• September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-related patches.

• September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Added - before tar options (for clarity).

• September 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's grammatic-fixes patch.

• September 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 02: Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.

• September 21st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Zlib: mv shared lib to /lib.

• September 20th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC: Removed the --enable-threads=posix flag since we don't build a C++ compiler in this chapter.

• September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Introduction: Removed paragraph about static linking since it seems misleading and is covered in better detail in Why Static.

• September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 - Linux: Removed cd command.

• September 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: Removed old mv /lib/*.a /usr/lib command explanation.

• September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added --libdir=/usr/lib to the configure script options. This way a proper libshadow.la is generated. Also changed the mv command to move all the libshadow.so* files to the /lib directory. The lib*a files are already in the /usr/lib directory.

• September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Added another regex to the sed command that modifies the man.conf file. The added regex comments out the MANPATH /usr/man line which causes for duplicate results when using the whatis command

• September 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Added the Linux Threads Man Pages installation after the Perl installation.

• September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Create mtab link: Made the ln command an ln -sf so the existing /etc/mtab file, created by the mount command, will be removed before re-creating it as a symlink.

• September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Sh-utils: Added the sh-utils-hostname patch that suppresses the build of the hostname program. This is done because the hostname program from the net-tools package is superior over this version.

• 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 introduced 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-4.1 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.

• June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Reiserfsprogs: added a description for unpack.

• June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 - How to ask for help: mentioned the FAQ.

• June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up explanations following the /static change.

• June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface - Who would not want to read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar patch.

• June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors. Chapter 06 - Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 - Gawk: to avoid confusion, mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06.

• June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited to include reporting typos.

• May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1 systems.

• May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Update to binutils-2.12.1.

• May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer have the commands referred to there.

• May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the various sed fixes with a regular patch.

• May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.

• May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.

• May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.

• May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership: removed the explicit command to chown /lost+found. This is done by the first command now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.

• May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used one).

• May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1, bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2, modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix patches for ncurses, perl and vim.

• May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to chapter 06-binutils.

• May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk & Findutils: simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We can live with a $LFS/static/libexecdir being created. The whole $LFS/static directory is temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks like.

• May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories: removed the cd / command and changed the two chmod commands to use absolute paths instead.

• May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't wanted.

• May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5 into $LFS/static and re-ordered the installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path (files from $LFS/static).

• May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some more descriptions.

• May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some descriptions.

• May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some descriptions.

• May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some more descriptions.

• May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some descriptions.

• May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some more descriptions.

• May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info chown).

• May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net

• May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some more descriptions.

• May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter 05 gzip instructions.

• May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML fixups; mainly altering <ulink> tags to remove erroneous &#13; in the HTML output.

• May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the missing descriptions.

• May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the symlink location of vigr to /usr/sbin

• May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).

• May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the cd dir && ln -sf commands to one single command (such as ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh Same goes for cd dir && mv/cp constructions which are now replaced with constructions like mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin

• May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS library files" section.

• May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds - gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR constructions and changed them to VAR=VALUE ./configure constructions.

• April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in updatedb.

• April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them, then you first need to create the /usr/lib/locale directory.

• April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to MAKEDEV-1.5

• April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to cvs and split up index.xml.

• April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q

• April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static pcre library.

• April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement ftp://ftp.de).