Errata for BLFS Version 6.3

Miscellaneous Errata

• It has been reported that the Berkeley DB backend engine in the MySQL package is now obsolete, and has been completely removed from later versions of MySQL. As the Berkeley DB backend isn't required (there are newer, more robust engines), you can feel free to remove the --with-berkeley-db parameter from the MySQL configure command.

• For Firefox and possibly Seamonkey, there has been at least one report that libcURL is a required runtime dependency for the Adobe 10 flash plugin.

• There is a critial security bug in imlib2-1.4.0. It is important that all users update to imlib2-1.4.2. Instructions for that package are in the development book, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/imlib2.html.

• When building HAL-0.5.9.1, an uncompressed /usr/share/pci.ids file is required. The default instructions for PCI Utilities-2.2.3 create a compressed /usr/share/pci.ids.gz file. Before building HAL-0.5.9.1, uncompress /usr/share/pci.ids.gz as the root user:

  gunzip /usr/share/pci.ids.gz

• When building SANE, make sure that non-scanner USB devices (e.g., hubs) in /dev/bus/usb have 0664 permissions (i.e., are readable), otherwise scanner access will fail. This requires modification of the 25-lfs.rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d installed by LFS 6.3. To do this, add a MODE="0664" to the line that starts with SUBSYSTEM=="usb".