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# Changelog

If, for example, a change is listed for chapter 5, it (usually) means the same change has been made in the corresponding chapter for the other architectures.

3.0-pre3 - May 12th, 2001

- Converted the SGML source to XML.

- Chapter 4: Tell the user to use cfdisk rather than fdisk. The fdisk man page recommends cfdisk over fdisk because it's more stable.

- Chapter 4: Changed the wording to make it more general as ext2 no longer is the only used file system. Reiserfs, for example, is often used too now.

- Chapter 4: Updated the directory list to be more FHS compliant. Mainly this meant adding the opt directories and removing /usr/tmp and /usr/local/tmp

- Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo, and partially gettext to facilitate the move of Glibc from Chapter 5 to Chapter 6.

- Chapter 5: Added Makedev to chapter 5. We don't create the device files here, only copy the MAKEDEV script and make a temp copy which will be used to create device files. This second file (MAKEDEV-temp) doesn't contain user names and group names but only user id's and group id's. We need a few device files to get Glibc installed, but, before Glibc is installed, user and group names are not recognized yet, only the numeric id's. This requires a slightly modified MAKEDEV script which will be generated by patching the original one. This patching is done here in chapter 5. Also, fixed the explanations on both makedev installations.

- Chapter 5: Recommended to install all the software while logged in (or su'ed to) user root.

- Chapter 5: Simplified ln commands.

- Chapter 5: Removed prefix=$LFS/usr from tar's make install.

- Chapter 5: We now copy the kernel include directories instead of linking to them. This is theoretically safer if we plan on upgrading the kernel.

- Chapter 5+6: Removed fileutils-patch. After upgrading to fileutils-4.1 the patch isn't needed anymore.

- Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is needed to compile the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems (such as the upcoming LFS-3.0 system).

- Chapter 5+6: Removed --disable-nls from configuration of programs that don't need it (bash, diffutils, gzip, sed, m4).

- Chapter 5+6: Changed from "cd dir && make" to "make -C dir" (gettext-static, sysvinit).

- Chapter 5: Beautified the static link process for mawk.

- Chapter 5+6: Upgraded gcc-2.95.2 to gcc-2.95.2.1.

- Chapter 5: Changed the links we create during gcc-installation to $LFS/usr/bin/cpp.

- Chapter 5+6: Moved Glibc from chapter 5 to chapter 6.

- Chapter 5+6: Put back the instructions on how to copy/remove the old NSS library files, in case the original distribution uses glibc-2.0.x.

- Chapter 5: Added the notice about an old version of install-info.

- Chapter 5: Removed the installation of a static gettext.

- Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils to libexecdir=/bin.

- Chapter 6: Updated Glibc installation instructions. The 'configparms' file creation has been deleted. No need to pick a compiler (either distro's native or the /usr/local/gcc2952/bin/gcc one); we're in chroot now so we'll use the one we have.

- Chapter 6: Only copy the man pages from the ld.so package. We don't need the ldconfig and ldd programs anymore; Glibc-2.2.1 comes with good working versions.

- Chapter 6: Changed the procps installation from sed'ing to an easier way.

- Chapter 6: Added the creation of the lex symlink to the flex installation.

- Chapter 6: Changed $* into "$@" in the yacc script during bison's installation. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks.

- Chapter 6: Fixed the man page installation during console-tools' installation.

- Chapter 6: When entering chroot, the $TERM variable inside chroot is set properly. This is accomplished by: chroot ... -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM ...

- Chapter 6: Merged the different sulogin lines from the inittab file into one line.

- Chapter 6: Changed all "rm file && ln -s dest file" into "ln -sf file" (in glibc, bzip2 and gzip installations).

- Chapter 6: Added a sed to fix a problem during glibc-installation. pt_chown can not be installed setuid root, because "root" is not known by glibc yet (kind of hen and egg-problem).

- Chapter 6: Changed consoledata/tools to kbd, which is more actively developed, and less of a pain to install.

- Chapter 6: Changed bin86's installation from "make PREFIX=/usr install" to "make INSTALL_OPTS="-m 755" PREFIX=/usr install". This will prevent install from invoking strip -s on the files. This fails because a couple of the installed files are shell scripts rather than programs, so they can't be stripped.

- Chapter 6: Removed the ld.so section since we only used the man pages and replaced it with a patch to man-pages.

- Chapter 7: Fixed the delays in the killproc function in the functions script. Now, after kill, first check PIDs, then sleep 2 if needed. More details can be read in the comments in the script itself.

- Chapter 7: Added the explanation how the runlevels and boot process works when using the LFS scripts.

- Chapter 7+8: Moved the creation of /etc/fstab to chapter 8.

- Chapter 10: Added this chapter. It contains "thanks and good luck" notes and suggest creating the /etc/lfs-3.0-pre3 file.

- Appendix A: Added the description of the Netkit-base and Net-tools packages.

- Appendix A: Added missing descriptions of frcode, code and bigram in the findutils-4.1 package.

- Everywhere: Added numerous FHS compliance notes. These instructions can be followed if one wishes to build a fully FHS-compliant system.

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