This is version SVN-20061210 of the Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch book, dated November 10, 2006. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via http://trac.cross-lfs.org/.
Below is a list of detailed changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
December 10, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.8.
December 9, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Tar 1.16.1.
December 7, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.7.
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.7.
[jim] - Reverting sysroot changes.
December 1, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.43.
[jim] - Removed MINOR patch and replaced it with a more complete upstream patch will all current updates to the 2.5 branch of glibc.
[jim] - Added Binutils Branch Update Patch.
[jim] - Reverted change in gettext build in temp-system.
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.7.
November 29, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.19-11302006.
[jim] - Updated to Udev Rules 1.1-pre3.
November 29, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.19.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.19-11292006.
November 27, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Gettext 0.16.1.
November 26, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.42.
[jim] - Updated to Gzip 1.3.6.
November 25, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.29.
November 23, 2006
[Chris] - Added /bin/rm to essential symlinks - e2fsprogs testsuite hard-codes the location to that binary.
November 22, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.6.
[jim] - Updated to Man 1.6e.
November 20, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.5.
[jim] - Added Patch for Coreutils 6.5 ls segfault.
[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.8.
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18.3.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.3-11202006.
November 17, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Autoconf 2.61.
November 15, 2006
[jim] - Updated to IANA-Etc 2.20.
November 14, 2006
[jim] - Change to E2FSProgs, does not pick up the CC or LD variables.
November 12, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.2-11122006.
[jim] - Bash 3.2 patch updated with upstream fixes 001-005.
November 5, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18.2.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.2-11052006.
November 4, 2006
[Chris] - Modified the instructions for disabling the installation of the groups program to account for changes in shadow's Makefile.
November 2, 2006
[jim] - Updated to File 4.18.
October 31, 2006
[jim] - Bash 3.2 patch updated with upstream fixes.
[jim] - Updated to Bootscripts 1.1-pre3.
October 30, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Udev Rules 1.1-pre2.
October 27, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Bootscripts 1.1-pre2.
[jim] - Updated syslog.conf file.
October 26, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux-Headers 2.6.18.1-10262006.
[jim] - Updated to Gettext 0.16.
[jim] - The nscd sed is no longer needed to build Glibc 2.5.
October 25, 2006
[Chris] - Updated to Psmisc 22.3.
[Chris] - Updated to Tcl 8.4.14.
[Chris] - Moved e2fsprogs and sed before coreutils, as Coreutils testsuite now requires e2fsprogs.
October 23, 2006
[Chris] - Removed unneeded additions to config.cache for temp-system Tar and Coreutils.
[jim] - Added touch man/uname.1 in temp-system Coreutils to prevent a build failure.
[jim] - Added Patch for a Versioning issue with Glibc 2.5.
October 22, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.18.1.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.18.1-10222006.
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.4.
[jim] - Removed out of place udev text in bootscripts Networking.
October 21, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Inetutils 1.5.
[jim] - Updated to IPRoute2 2.6.18-061002.
[jim] - Updated to Tar 1.16.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 103.
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 6.3.
October 20, 2006
[Chris] - Removed command to add "setvbuf_reversed" to temp-system bash as it is no longer needed with Bash 3.2.
[Chris] - Added command to man instructions to comment out MANPATH /usr/local/man (in addition to /usr/man).
October 15, 2006
[jim] - Updated Bash 3.2 with some unofficial upstream fixes. Thank you Chet Ramey.
October 12, 2006
[jim] - Added patch to fix build issue with Bash 3.2.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.41.
[jim] - Updated to Glibc 2.5.
October 11, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Bash 3.2.
[jim] - Updated to Readline 5.2.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.40.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 102.
October 4, 2006
[manuel] - Changed book license to the Open Publication License v1.0.
October 1, 2006
[Chris] - Removed obsolete command from Tcl instructions, as the issue it fixes has been fixed in the latest Tcl version.
September 29, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers to 2.6.18-09302006.
[jim] - New patch for util-linux, replaces GCC 4 Fixes, the new patches fixes the same issues, and removes the use of syscalls. Syscalls were removed the unistd.h during santization.
September 28, 2006
[jim] - Added patch for Util-Linux to fix build issues due to headers change in the kernel.
[jim] - Updated to Texinfo 4.8a.
September 25, 2006
[jim] - Updated Bootscripts to 1.1-pre1. Adding in the boot logging feature.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 100.
[jim] - Updated Udev Rules for Udev 100.
[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.7.
[jim] - Updated to Linux to 2.6.18.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers to 2.6.18-09252006.
[jim] - Udev library libvolume_id is used by HAL, which makes us change our build to a multilib build of udev libaries only for 32 and N32.
September 18, 2006
[jim] - Updated Bison to a multilib build in all support architectures.
August 28, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Gettext 0.15.
[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.18.1.
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.97.
[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.7.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.39.
[jim] - Updated to Autoconf 2.60.
[jim] - Updated to TCL 8.4.13.
[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.6.
[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.28.
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils Uname Patch -2, which supports all architectures.
[jim] - Updated to Vim Patch -10, which contains upstream fixes.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 098 and udev-cross-lfs to 1.1-08272006 rules.
August 28, 2006
[jim] - Changelog restarted, see the 1.0.0 book for the old changelog.
Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005