Linux From Scratch: Version 5.0-pre3
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# Changelog

5.0-pre3 - October 22nd, 2003

- Upgraded to:

  - automake-1.7.6

  - bash-2.05b

  - binutils-2.14

  - e2fsprogs-1.34

  - file-4.04

  - findutils-4.1.20

  - gawk-3.1.3

  - gcc-3.3.1

  - gettext-0.12.1

  - glibc-2.3.2

  - glibc-2.3.2-sscanf-1.patch

  - grep-2.5.1

  - groff-1.19

  - gzip-1.3.5

  - less-381

  - lfs-bootscripts-1.12

  - libtool-1.5

  - linux-2.4.22

  - man-1.5m2

  - man-1.5m2-80cols.patch

  - man-1.5m2-manpath.patch

  - man-1.5m2-pager.patch

  - man-pages-1.60

  - modutils-2.4.25

  - procps-3.1.11

  - procps-3.1.11.patch

  - psmisc-21.3

  - sed-4.0.7

  - sysvinit-2.85

  - tar-1.13.25

  - texinfo-4.6

  - util-linux-2.12

  - vim-6.2

- Added:

  - bash-2.05b-2.patch

  - bison-1.875-attribute.patch

  - coreutils-5.0

  - coreutils-5.0-uname.patch

  - coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch

  - dejagnu-1.4.3

  - expect-5.39.0

  - expect-5.39.0.patch

  - gawk-3.1.3.patch

  - gcc-2.95.3

  - gcc-2.95.3-2.patch

  - gcc-2.95.3-no-fixinc.patch

  - gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch

  - gcc-3.3.1-no_fixincludes-2.patch

  - gcc-3.3.1-specs-2.patch

  - gcc-3.3.1-suppress-libiberty.patch

  - grub-0.93

  - grub-0.93-gcc33-1.patch

  - inetutils-1.4.2

  - lfs-utils-0.3

  - ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch

  - ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch

  - perl-5.8.0-libc-3.patch

  - shadow-4.0.3-newgroup-fix.patch

  - tcl-8.4.4

  - zlib-1.1.4-vsnprintf.patch

- Removed:

  - bin86-0.16.3

  - fileutils-4.1

  - fileutils-4.1.patch

  - findutils-4.1-segfault.patch

  - findutils-4.1.patch

  - glibc-2.3.1-libnss.patch

  - glibc-2.3.1-root-perl.patch

  - gzip-1.2.4b.patch

  - lilo-22.2

  - netkit-base-0.17

  - sh-utils-2.0

  - sh-utils-2.0.patch

  - sh-utils-2.0-hostname.patch

  - tar-1.13.patch

  - textutils-2.1

  - vim-6.1.patch

- October 15th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 9: Reworked final strip command. Relocated paragraphs about directory removal from Chapter 6.

- October 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Making the LFS system bootable: Expand Grub details and add a warning.

- October 14th, 2003 [alex]: Appendix A - Updating the contents of Perl and Procps.

- October 14th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 4 and 5 - Added suggestion to use $LFS/sources as the working and storage place.

- October 13th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 9 - Rebooting the system: Reworked umount commands.

- October 11h, 2003 [alex]: Adapted the required disk space values and SBUs, as posted by Bruce Dubbs.

- October 11h, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 5 - Toolchain technical notes: Added and changed some markup.

- October 9th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to lfs-bootscripts-1.12.

- October 9th, 2003 [greg]: Performed internal markup reworking to fix an extraneous whitespace problem in "tidy generated" web site pages. Essentially replace all occurrences of <para><screen> with <screen> (and the matching closing tags).

- October 9th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Basic Networking: Moved one half to the Lfs-Utils section, the other half to Perl.

- October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 8 - Making bootable: Adapted the style of the screens, and reworded some paragraphs.

- October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Removed a series of unused entities.

- October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added notes to the linking tests in chapter 5 and 6 stating that blank output is a bad thing.

- October 7th, 2003 [alex]: Changed the patch entities to contain the full filename instead of just the version number.

- October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 1 - Added a note regarding #LFS-support on IRC.

- October 7th, 2003 [greg]: Preface: Add note about the Essential Pre-Reading Hint. Closes Bug 585.

- October 6th, 2003 [alex]: Changed the style of the Contents subsections in Chapters 5 and 6 and Appendix A.

- October 6th, 2003 [greg]: Simplified seds in "Locking in Glibc" and "Re-adjusting the toolchain" sections. Rearranged "How things are going to be done" section.

- October 5th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5: Added new section "Toolchain technical notes". Integrated and scaled back the old "Why we use static linking" section. Closes Bug 658.

- October 4th, 2003 [alex]: Minor rewordings and additions of markup here and there.

- October 4th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Binutils Pass 1: Added extra LDFLAGS to ensure static rebuild of ld.

- October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6: Reinstated INSTALL=/tools/bin/install for linker adjustment command due to issues on hosts where a ginstall symlink exists. This renders the "install" symlinks redundant, so removed those too.

- October 2nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Enabled MD5 passwords. Closes Bug 600.

- September 27th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Expect: Tweaked install so that redundant scripts are not installed. Chapter 6 - Creating essential symlinks: Removed redundant links. Chapter 6 - man: Removed PATH, closes Bug 574.

- September 27th, 2003 [greg]: Added Tcl, Expect and DejaGnu items to Appendix A. Closes Bug 661.

- September 26th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added new workaround for the devpts problems.

- September 24th, 2003 [greg]: Various changes across the board addressing Bug 675.

- September 24th, 2003 [alex]: Appendix A - Changed the style of the short descriptions, and the content of most of them too.

- September 22nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Creating the /etc/fstab file: Made mounting devpts the default.

- September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Net-tools patch to fix mii-tool compilation.

- September 22nd, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Updated the Why Static page to more accurately represent the difference between statically and dynamically linked binaries. Thanks to Ian Molton for pointing this out. Fixes Bug 602.

- September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed the make command from DejaGnu, since it performs nothing.

- September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed the -k from Tcl's make check, since it's not expected to have failures anymore

- September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Changed the reference to the man hint to a pointer to BLFS.

- September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Added a note to remember to mount devpts if you exit and re-enter chroot.

- September 22nd, 2003 [jeremy]: Removed make check from Patch and Diffutils, since these tests perform no actions.

- September 22nd, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Setting up the environment: Added unset CC CXX CPP LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_PRELOAD to .bash_profile to stop accidental build breakage.

- September 20th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Updated to gcc-3.3.1-specs-2.patch. Ncurses: added --enable-overwrite and description.

- September 19th, 2003 [jeremy]: Corrected bash tags for proper use of the +h flag to bash.

- September 19th, 2003 [jwrober]: Various updates to the acknowledgments page.

- September 18th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Added some extra comments regarding the 3 tarballs to unpack.

- September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - GCC-2.95.3: Added rationale notes.

- September 17th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the acknowledgments page to match the website.

- September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Upgraded File to 4.04.

- September 17th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Changed 2 of the occurrences of exec bash --login to include the +h directive.

- September 17th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Do "make -C ld install" instead of "make -C ld install-data-local" to install a whole new linker instead of just the new ldscripts.

- September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Normalized the spelling of 'Tcl' and 'DejaGnu', following their own documentation.

- September 17th, 2003 [alex]: Properly alphabetized the dependencies.

- September 16th, 2003 [alex]: Finally updated the dependencies for the new Coreutils.

- September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Locking in Glibc and Re-adjusting the toolchain: Added sanity checks.

- September 16th, 2003 [greg]: Chapters 5 and 6 - Binutils, GCC, and Glibc: Added notes on the test suites.

- September 15th, 2003 [alex]: Corrected several typos and some inconsistencies.

- September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Revised chroot command: Removed no longer needed set +h.

- September 14th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed some typos, and added some markup. Dropped the removal of program files from the Stripping section in Chapter 5.

- September 14th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 6 - Create essential symlinks: Add symlink /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to allow GCC abi_check to run. Future NPTL needs this as well.

- September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Added PLFS hint text to the page in Chapter 6 for creating passwd and group: bug 596.

- September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Updated the "How things are going to be done" page to include more of the PLFS hint's text.

- September 13th, 2003 [jwrober]: Preface - Merged whoread and whonotread into a single audience page.

- September 13th, 2003 [greg]: Chapter 2 - Added new section about the test suites.

- September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Ncurses: Added description for the --without-ada configure switch.

- September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Gawk: Added the test suite

- September 12th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - Grep: Added descriptions of configure switches courtesy of Anderson Lizardo

- September 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed /usr/lib/locale directory creation - it's created during Chapter 6 - Glibc where it's more relevant.

- September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Fixed GCC Pass 2 specs patch text to be more vague, but in actuality more accurate - provided by Anderson Lizardo.

- September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Grammar fix in Tcl install directions provided by Anderson Lizardo.

- September 11th, 2003 [jwrober]: Chapter 5 - Small textual change in the locking in Glibc page for /lib/ld.so.1 provided by Anderson Lizardo.

- September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added bootloader setup to Chapter 8, after the addition of Grub to the book.

- September 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Bin86 and LILO and replaced it with Grub.

- September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Dropped non-toolchain tests to optional actions. Added a note to use the Wiki for failed tests.

- September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Bison patch, backported from CVS, to fix pwlib compilation problems

- September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added Greg's patch to GCC to suppress the installation of libiberty, and changed Binutils to allow its libiberty to stay.

- September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added caution tags around the reminder to not delete the Binutils source and build directories in Chapter 5.

- September 11th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added new perl-libc-3 patch from Anderson Lizardo

- September 9th, 2003 [jwrober]: Fixed the Findutils package download link on the packages page closing bug 578.

- September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC 2.95.3: Removed compilation of C++, added Zack's return-type patch.

- September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Coreutils: Added coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch, which suppresses the build of the hostname binary, and also suppresses its check.

- September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added some notes regarding failed tests to Glibc and DejaGnu.

- September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Glibc - Added commands to both Chapter 5 and 6 to include minimum locales necessary for checks.

- September 9th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Removed Zlib's munging of CFLAGS in favor of a note to add -fPIC.

- September 8th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 5 - Fixed the rm command that deletes unneeded documentation from /tools/share.

- September 6th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Removed a reference to "the static" directory in the intro.

- September 6th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Updated download locations for some packages.

- September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 5 - GCC Pass 2: Corrected the make check error explanation

- September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Makedev: Changed the default device creation to generic-nopty, because we now use devpts by default.

- September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - GCC: Corrected wording to reflect the removal of the /usr/lib/cpp symlink.

- September 5th, 2003 [jeremy]: Corrected perl libc patch to -2, changing the old /stage1 structure to /tools

- September 5th, 2003 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated GCC specs patch and upgraded to man-1.5m2

- September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Creating Directories: Eliminated the creation of /usr/tmp - Closes bug 176.

- September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc: Added mounting the devpts filesystem into chroot here. Closes bug 533.

- September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Mounting Proc: Added a warning at the end regarding checking that proc is still mounted if you stop and restart the lfs process.

- September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Altered text to better explain the reason behind the sed command used in the gzip installation. Closes bug 551.

- September 4th, 2003 [jeremy]: Chapter 4 - Downloading patches: Added a note regarding Tushar's patches project, and a link to the patches home page.

- September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Fixed issue with util-linux not utilizing headers and libraries installed in /stage1.

- September 3rd, 2003 [matt]: Removed "rm /bin/pwd" instruction from chapter06 kernel-headers installation as the link is still required by Glibc's installation.

- September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Adjusted all the SBUs from the values posted by Jeremy.

- September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Finally got around to renaming /stage1 to /tools.

- September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Merged several of the main book structure files.

- September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Alphabetized download lists, added note to Tcl instructions.

- September 2nd, 2003 [alex]: Reworded Organization, $LFS and SBUs sections.

- September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 - Groff - Added note about choice of A4 or letter for the PAGE variable.

- September 1, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in shadow newgrp patch from Greg Schafer

- August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 6 - Inetutils - added the --disable-whois and --disable-servers flags

- August 31, 2003 [jeremy] - Added in Greg's new instructions for GCC 3.3.1 with respect to the fixincludes process. Also added extra verbiage to the locking-in and GCC pass 2 pages on the fixincludes process.

- August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Reworded some paragraphs, added missing markup, and rearranged the changelog.

- August 31st, 2003 [alex]: Wrapped the 'Last checked' lines in parentheses. Several other small retouches.

- August 30, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated fix-includes patch to GCC 3.3.1

- August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Glibc - updated instructions with the sscanf patch from patches.

- August 29, 2003 [jeremy] - Updated GCC to version 3.3.1, including fixes based on Zack's mini-hint for GCC 3.3, and patches from his docs.

- August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Removed obsolete Netkit-base, Fileutils, Sh-utils, and Textutils files.

- August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Added some missing markup, changed a few /static's to /stage1's.

- August 29th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Added all the missing text lines before the make checks, and reworded other lines.

- August 28, 2003 [matt] - Updated packages to linux-2.4.22, man-pages-1.60, expect-5.39.0, findutils-4.1.20 and tcl-8.4.4

- August 28, 2003 [jeremy] - New bash-2.05b-2.patch file to include the 7 patches from ftp.gnu.org

- August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Re-adjusting toolchain: Added a forgotten backslash.

- August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Fixed a few typos and added some missing markup.

- August 28th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Binutils and GCC: Integrated text from the pure-lfs hint.

- August 27, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 - Inetutils: Added --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var and moved the ping binary from /usr/bin to /bin

- August 27th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Integrated text from the pure-lfs hint.

- August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 07 - Creating /etc/hosts: Changed www.mydomain.org to <value of HOSTNAME>.mydomain.org

- August 26th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 & 08 - Moved the installation of the kernel manpages from chapter 6 to 8.

- August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 04 - Mounting the LFS partition: Added text regarding mounting with too restrictive permissions.

- August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 06 - Creating Directories: Added the creation of the /dev/shm directory.

- August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 - Creating fstab: Added the mount of tmpfs filesystem to /dev/shm.

- August 26, 2003 [jeremy] - Chapter 08 - Kernel Installation: Added a reminder to compile tmpfs support into the kernel.

- August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 06 - Rewrote the installation text of Shadow and Util-Linux while correcting some typos.

- August 25th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Made the "Locking in" and "Re-adjusting" look similar.

- August 24th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Merged the many little files into one file. Gave packages and patches a separate page.

- August 17th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Bash to Perl: put text in between commands. Added a section on stripping unneeded symbols to decrease the size of the tools.

- August 16th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Make to Texinfo: put text in between commands.

- August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - From Binutils Pass 1 to Findutils: several small textual adjustments. For the second passes not giving the contents and dependencies.

- August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Listed separate core, g++, and test suite tarballs for GCC.

- August 11th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 04 - Suppressed the mention of a wget script.

- August 9th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2 and GCC Pass 2: integrated some text from the pure-lfs hint.

- August 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 05 - Tcl, Expect, and DejaGnu: added some text.

- August 6th, 2003 [gerard]: Applied Alex Groenewoud's patch that adds Appendix B, providing a list of all installed programs and libraries plus references to the installation pages.

- July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Vim: Changed the way the global `vimrc` and `gvimrc` locations are defined.

- July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils Pass2: removed the lib patch, it's no longer needed with the binutils-2.14 upgrade.

- July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 Binutils Pass1: Added `make configure-host`.

- July 30th, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to binutils-2.14, linux-2.4.21, expect-5.38.4, gawk-3.1.3, texinfo-4.6, util-linux-2.12, man-pages-1.58, lfs-utils-0.3, vim-6.2, gettext-0.12.1, automake-1.7.6, file-4.03, e2fsprogs-1.34, procps-3.1.11, psmisc-21.3

- June 3rd, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: removed the removal of `/bin/awk`. This symlink isn't created anymore.

- May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added /opt/gcc-2.95.3/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file so the libraries can be found during run-time.

- May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Simplified commands.

- May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2: Simplified commands.

- May 21st, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Added the `grpconv` command to complement the enabling of all shadowed passwords.

- May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating Files: All those `ln` commands can be made into a few long ln commands.

- May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Glibc: Create an ld.so.conf file before building Glibc, to prevent an (harmless) error.

- May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc: Don't bother doing the 'exec /stage1/bin/bash' stuff, it doesn't do anything now that we use PLFS.

- May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Installing Coreutils: Only test the non-root stuff in Chapter 05, but test everything in Chapter 06.

- May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Expect: Don't bother passing anything more than --prefix=/stage1. None of it is needed.

- May 16th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Net-tools: Changed `make install` to `make update`.

- May 15th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 05: Installing Patch: Added `CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE` before `./configure` to fix patch build on PPC.

- May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: When we `exec /path/to/bash --login`, also run `set +h` to keep the hashing option turned off. Fixes bug #531

- May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network: Changed the single quotes to double quotes in the echo command. Without it, $(hostname) won't expand which defeats the sole purpose of this command - to make Perl's hostname check work.

- May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed all occurrences &&. Updated bug syntax. Added "make check/test" where necessary in Chapter 6.

- May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Changing ownership" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #511.

- May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Configuring system components" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #510.

- May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed Tcl, Expect and DejaGnu. Nothing uses this once past GCC in chapter 6. The versions in /stage1/bin do the job just fine.

- May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Shadow: Touching the /usr/bin/passwd file before installation. Not doing so results in Shadow thinking passwd will be in /bin/passwd.

- May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps: Remove the /lib/libproc.so symlink. No package outside of Procps itself uses this library, and none should.

- May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools: Run "make config" before doing make. Fixes bugs #462 and #497.

- May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ncurses: Added the vsscanf patch.

- May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gzip: Removed `make check`. It doesn't do anything.

- May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Texinfo: Don't install the texmf data. It's not used by anything.

- May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Installing Ncurses: In Chapter 6, symlink creation has been updated to include libcurses.*, and libncurses++.a has its properties changed to 644. Chapter 5 doesn't need any libcurses.* so those are removed.

- May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network: Added $(hostname) to /etc/hosts, without it Perl's hostname test doesn't pass.

- May 12th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC: Don't try to remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It isn't installed in the first place.

- May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to findutils-4.1.7, gzip-1.3.5, and tar-1.13.25.

- May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Perl: Added extra commands to build certain modules into Perl. This is to accommodate the Coreutils "make check". Partially fixes bug #528.

- May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Gzip: Nothing in Chapter 6 checks for or uses the uncompress command, therefore we shouldn't create it.

- May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Bzip2: Running "make" implies "make check", therefore there is no reason whatsoever for us to run it manually.

- May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Lfs-Utils: Removed. The only package that checks for mktemp before it is installed is GCC, and that's only for gccbug.

- May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added --enable-threads=posix as well to complete the C++ addition.

- May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added --enable-languages=c,c++ to fix that GCC's version bug with regards to -Wreturn-type. Fixes bug #525

- May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed the --without-bash-malloc configure option.

- May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Updated to gcc-3.2.3-specs-4.patch.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Setting up Basic Networking: Added section. Create a basic /etc/hosts files, and create /etc/services and /etc/protocols from IANA. Fixes bugs #359 & #515.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgrading to lfs-utils-0.2.2. This adds two files needed for proper networking configuration.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed Netkit-base 0.17. Added Inetutils 1.4.2. Fixes bug #490.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Added lfs-utils-0.2.1. Fixes bug #493.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses: Fix up the symlinks so that they follow suit of other library symlinks. No more weirdness here.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps: Removed XSCPT="" cruft and its corresponding paragraph. This stuff isn't needed anymore.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Ncurses: Pass --without-debug to the configure script. It seems to have gotten lost at some point.

- May 11th, 2003 [timothy]: Chapter 5 & 6 - Installing Bzip2, Installing Zlib: Modified build commands per bug #524.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc: Install the linuxthreads man pages, too. This got lost somewhere.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Grep: Added --with-included-regex to prevent Grep from using Glibc's somewhat bugged regex.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Coreutils: Fix some functionality of the uname command with a patch.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools: Just do regular old "make install" instead of "make update". The latter works fine now.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing GCC: After installation, remove /usr/include/libiberty.h. It is not used outside of the GCC build tree.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Upgraded to Bash 2.05b and added its patch.

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Zlib: Apply a patch to fix the buffer overflow in gzprintf().

- May 11th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Configuring system components: Moved the creation of the btmp, wtmp, lastlog and utmp to just before Shadow, so that they are detected at their proper locations.

- May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Automake: Run "make" before installing. This is needed now with the newer releases of Automake.

- May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Vim: Removed the patch. It hasn't been required since GCC 3.2.1.

- May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Creating the mtab file: Removed. Mounting /proc has the side effect of creating /etc/mtab for us.

- May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Make: Removed modification of /usr/bin/make file. It is no longer mistakenly installed with strange ownership or permissions.

- May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Glibc: Made /etc/localtime a file instead of a symlink. The symlink method breaks on systems where /usr is a separate partition.

- May 10th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing E2fsprogs: Removed install-info commands for e2fsprogs. The "make install" target handles this for us.

- May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed all CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables where they are not essential (so, not including static binutils, GCC and compiling Zlib with -fPIC).

- May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Binutils (pass1, pass2), locking in Glibc and adjusting toolchain: Changed tooldir to /stage1 (likewise we use tooldir=/usr in Chapter 6).

- May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Kernel headers: Removed the usage of `cp -H` because there are distributions out there that do not know about the `-H` option.

- May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: New gcc-3.2.3-specs-3.patch.

- May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Adjusting toolchain: Made it more architecture-independent.

- May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Locking in Glibc: Made it more architecture-independent.

- May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed GCC No Debug patches. No longer assume gcc-core and gcc-g++ packages are downloaded, so added appropriate --enable-languages options.

- May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed Chapter 6 - Glibc-Pass2. It's not needed anymore with the pure-lfs integration.

- May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Downgraded to flex-2.5.4a again. Newer versions just don't work properly.

- May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed zlib installation from chapter 5 (its inclusion was a mistake).

- May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Various bug fixes that were introduced during the pure-lfs integration.

- May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.7.4, e2fsprogs-1.33, file-4.02, flex-2.5.31, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2, grep-2.5.1, groff-1.19, less-381, libtool-1.5, man-1.5l, man-pages-1.56, modutils-2.4.25, procps-3.1.8, sed-4.0.7, sysvinit-2.85, texinfo-4.5, util-linux-2.11z

- May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Removed fileutils-4.1, sh-utils-2.0, textutils-2.1 (all replaced with coreutils-5.0).

- May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Added binutils-2.13.2-libc.patch, coreutils-5.0, dejagnu-1.4.3, expect-5.38, gawk-3.1.2, gcc-2.95.3, tcl-8.4.2

- May 2nd, 2003 [gerard] - Integrated new installation method from the Pure LFS hint written by Greg Schafer and Ryan Oliver.

Release of version 4.1 on April 28th, 2003.

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