This is version 1.0.0rc1 of the Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch book, dated June 23, 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://www.linuxfromscratch.org/.
Below is a list of detailed changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
June 24, 2006
[jeremy] - Release of 1.0.0-rc1
June 23, 2006
[jim] - Updated Binutils 2.17.
[jim] - Updated Cross-LFS Specific Packages and Patches links for Release.
June 22, 2006
[jim] - Added mktemp to Linux dependency list. New dependency as of 2.6.17.
[jim] - Updated Vim 7.0 patch.
June 21, 2006
[Chris] - Text updates to the book, including replacing "LFS" with "CLFS".
[jim] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06212006-1.
[jim] - Updated Vim 7.0 patch.
June 20, 2006
[jeremy] - Corrected e2fsprogs installation in the boot section, to take into account the new mke2fs.conf file.
[jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.17.1 and linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06202006.
[jim] - Updated to linux-headers-2.6.17.1-06202006-1.
June 19, 2006
[jciccone] - Updated to man-1.6d.
[jciccone] - Added an iconv_fix patch to glibc which fixes an issue that has shown up primarily in samba.
[jciccone] - Updated to linux-2.6.17 and linux-headers-2.6.17-06192006.
June 15, 2006
[jim] - Let Perl use thread support.
June 14, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Binutils 2.16.94.
June 10, 2006
[Chris] - Updates to lists of installed programs for several packages.
[Ken] - Fixed the module-init-tools install in the presence of existing files. Thanks to Manuel for pointing me to the fix in LFS, and to Dan Nicholson for the fix.
June 9, 2006
[jim] - Updates to Shadow 4.0.16 build instructions.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.20 to 06092006.
June 7, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.16.
June 6, 2006
[Chris] - Added many more -v switches for verbosity.
June 5, 2006
[jim] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.20, and linux-headers-2.6.16.20.
[jim] - Updated to Bison 2.3.
June 4, 2006
[Chris] - Removed obsolete paragraph about "resetting" passwords when using pwconv from Shadow instructions.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.19 to 06042006.
June 1, 2006
[Chris] - Updated list of installed programs for several packages.
May 31, 2006
[ken] - Removed redundant chown of /usr/share/libtool/libltdl.
[jim] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.19, and linux-headers-2.6.16.19.
May 30, 2006
[jim] - Added a patch to fix a missing declaration of R_OK in util-linux.
[Chris] - Removed the long-gone swapdev program from the list of programs installed by util-linux, and several programs not installed by default from the kbd program list.
[jim] - Updated to E2fsprogs 1.39.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.33.
May 29, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Binutils 2.16.93.
[jim] - Updated to UDEV 093.
[jim] - Updated Udev Rules to 0.1-05292006.
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.18 to 05292006.
May 28, 2006
[jim] - Added a patch to Grub to prevent. Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition.
May 25, 2006
[jim] - Updated to GCC 4.1.1.
[jim] - Add Vim 7.0 Upstream Patches.
May 22, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.96.
[jim] - Updated linux-2.6.16.18, and linux-headers-2.6.16.18.
May 21, 2006
[jciccone] - Updated to Bison-2.2, linux-2.6.16.17, and linux-headers-2.6.16.17.
May 17, 2006
[Chris] - Made a number of text updates and grammar fixes and added more dependency info (bootscripts, udev-rules, tree) to Appendix C.
May 16, 2006
[Chris] - Changed the temp-system and final-system package build order and a few package build instructions to account for the changed order (the rest of ticket #26).
[ken] - Change name of coreutils patch to match the patch.
May 15, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.32.
May 14, 2006
[jim] - Updated Udev Rules to 0.1-05142006.
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.16 to 05142006.
May 13, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.95.
May 12, 2006
[jim] - Add Vim 7.0 Upstream Patches.
May 11, 2006
[jim] - Updated Linux and Linux Headers to 2.6.16.16.
[jim] - Add Vim 7.0 Upstream Patches.
May 10,2006
[Chris] - Added more detailed dependency info and moved it to Appendices C and D. Fixes half of ticket #26.
May 9, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Binutils 2.16.92.
[jim] - Updated to Vim 7.0.
[jciccone] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.15.
May 7, 2006
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.14 to 05072006.
May 6, 2006
[jciccone] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.14 to 05062006.
May 4, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux-2.6.16.14.
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.13 to 05042006.
May 3, 2006
[Chris] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.31.
[jim] - Updated to Linux-2.6.16.13.
[jim] - Updated to Iana-Etc 2.10.
May 2, 2006
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.12 to 05022006.
[jim] - Reverted change to bash. Needed on some architectures.
[jim] - Fixed a coreutils cross-compile issues on some architectures.
May 1, 2006
[Chris] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.30.
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 05012006.
[Chris] - Updated to Linux-2.6.16.12.
April 30, 2006
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04302006.
April 29, 2006
[ken] - Add asm-generic to headers which are chowned in non-multilib books.
April 28, 2006
[jim] - Updated Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04282006.
[jim] - Updated Udev Rules to 0.1-04282006.
April 27, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04272006.
April 25, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Udev 091.
[jim] - Updated to Linux Headers 2.6.16.11 to 04262006.
April 24, 2006
[ken] - Updated to iproute2-2.6.16-060323.
[jim] - Updated to Linux and Linux Headers 2.6.16.11.
April 22, 2006
[ken] - Add example commands to test if chroot is possible, thanks to William Zhou.
April 21, 2006
[jim] - Updated Linux-Headers to fix x86_64-biarch problem.
April 20, 2006
[jim] - Added missing asm-generic copy to Linux-Headers.
[jim] - Updated Linux-Headers to include nvram.h.
April 19, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Bash Patch -8.
[jim] - Removed Linux-Libc-Headers and replace it with our Linux-Headers package.
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.9.
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.8.
April 18, 2006
[jim] - Renamed gcc fold_const patch to the PR #.
[jim] - Added GCC 4.1.0 patch PR20425. This allows searching of multilib dirs for the specs file.
April 17, 2006
[Chris] - Removed sed command from temp-system bash - no longer needed for Bash 3.1.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 090.
[jim] - Updated to udev-rules 0.1-04172006.
[jciccone] - Added a gcc patch that fixes an optimaztion error which can result in incorrect code.
[jciccone] - Removed the util-linux and kernel patch that fixes the checksum calculation for sun disklabels.
April 14, 2006
[jciccone] - Added a security patch to tar.
[jciccone] - Added a util-linux and kernel patch to fix a checksum calculation issue for sun disklabels.
April 13, 2006
[jim] - Updated to GCC 4.1.0.
[jim] - Fixed make install-minimal in udev-rules.
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.5.
April 12, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Glibc 2.4.
[jim] - Updated to latest bash patch -7.
April 10, 2006
[jim] - Changed numbering of udev-rules to use 0.1-SVNDATE.
April 6, 2006
[jim] - Added install-minimal to udev rules.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 089.
April 1, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Make 3.81.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.28.
March 28, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.1.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.27.
March 27, 2006
[jciccone] - Updated coreutils suppress_uptime_kill_su patch to -2.
[jciccone] - Updated readline fixes patch to -3.patch.
[jciccone] - Updated bash fixes patch to -6.
March 22, 2006
[jim] - Updated Udev to build floppy helper.
March 21, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Udev 088.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.26.
[jim] - Updated to IPRoute2 2.6.15-060110.
March 20, 2006
[jim] - Fixed build issue with Texinfo in temp-system. Added --build.
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16.
[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.15.
[Chris] - Removed note about GCC 2.95.3 from kernel section, as documentation has been updated in linux-2.6.16 and it now recommends GCC >= 3.2.
March 15, 2006
[jim] - Changed bootscripts to CLFS-bootscripts 0.1.
[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.2.
[jim] - Updated to Flex 2.5.33.
March 14, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.16-rc6.
[jim] - Removal of Hotplug.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 087.
[jim] - Removal of old udev rules.
[jim] - Added Udev-Cross-LFS 0.1.
[jim] - Updated to GCC 4.0.3.
[jim] - Updated to File 4.17.
March 13, 2006
[jciccone] - Removed pure64 bootloader warning from the top page.
March 9, 2006
[Chris] - Simplified IPRoute2 instruction by removing redundant "configure" command.
March 2, 2006
[Chris] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.25.
[Chris] - Reverted to Expect 5.43.0. 5.44.1 depends on Tk.
February 27, 2006
[jim] - Updated Bash fixes patch to -5.
February 26, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Expect 5.44.1.
February 23, 2006
[Chris] - Simplified the "Changing Ownership" page for the boot section, and rewrote some of the text in the final "Reboot" page.
February 21, 2006
[jim] - Removed Dependency of Tempfile from Bzip2.
[jim] - Updated Bash fixes patch to -4.
[jciccone] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.24
February 14, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.94.
February 11, 2006
[Chris] - Added -v switches to commands that accept it.
February 9, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.23.
February 8, 2006
[jim] - Changed x86_64 to use unknown in the target triplet.
February 7, 2006
[Chris] - Removed inetutils from boot section - it will be covered in the "netboot" hint.
[Chris] - Added section on Package Management - moved out of BLFS.
February 6, 2006
[Chris] - Moved the text explaining why binutils should be the first package compiled to a more appopriate location at the first installation of binutils, and changed the wording in temp-system gettext.
[jim] - Updated Readline and Bash patches from Upstream.
February 5, 2006
[jim] - Updated Procps 32bit build in Multilib builds to use lib64=lib. Fixed via Trac Ticket #2.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.22.
February 3, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Sed 4.1.5.
February 2, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Perl 5.8.8.
[jhuntwork] - Minor textual fix to GCC.
February 1, 2006
[Chris] - Added a sed substitution to man instructions to fix an error in the makewhatis script.
January 31, 2006
[Chris] - Added -v to commands that accept them, for consistency with LFS.
January 30, 2006
[jim] - Change final-system GCC, to use make bootstrap. Update provided by Ryan Oliver.
January 29, 2006
[jim] - Updated Toolchain adjustment in final-system. Thank you Dan Nicholson.
January 24, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Man 1.6c.
January 23, 2006
[Chris] - Removed unnecessary --with-ncurses switches from temp-system bash and inetutils.
[Chris] - Moved zlib from temp-system to boot as it's not needed if you chroot.
January 19, 2006
[Chris] - Removed patch from shadow instructions.
[Chris] - Added perl sprintf vulnerability patch.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.21.
January 13, 2006
[ken] - Moved grep ahead of libtool to avoid /tools being hardcoded into the libtool script for EGREP.
[ken] - Alter bison to build repeatably, from LFS.
[ken] - Alter gccbug to use mktemp, from LFS.
[ken] - Move creation of /etc/hosts within Perl instructions, for repeatability, from LFS.
[Chris] - Moved bootloader setup to right after "Changing Ownership" in Chapter 7, and changed several package installation instructions in that chapter.
January 12, 2006
[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages to the beginning of Chapter 7.
[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.
[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.
[jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted on Pure 64 builds.
January 11, 2006
[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.
January 8, 2006
[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build process and test suite information.
January 3, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.
December 30, 2005
[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.
[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.
December 29, 2005
[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.
December 28, 2005
[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we are in chroot.
[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.
December 23, 2005
[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.
December 22, 2005
[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts, including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and as multiple assignments in a single command.
[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence. Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling readline.
[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.
[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.
December 20, 2005
[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.
December 19, 2005
[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.
[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.
December 18, 2005
[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot and boot sections.
[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on a multilib capable build.
[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.
December 17, 2005
[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.
December 16, 2005
[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.
[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue in perl.
December 15, 2005
[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.
[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.
December 14, 2005
[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent further build issues.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.
[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.
December 13, 2005
[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile. Thanks to David Fix.
December 12, 2005
[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.
December 11, 2005
[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.
December 9, 2005
[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.
[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.
[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers. They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.
December 8, 2005
[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.
[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.
[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.
December 7, 2005
[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.
[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.
[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.
[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.
December 6, 2005
[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.
[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.
[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.
[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and correct the date in changelog.
[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes wrong.
[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.
December 5, 2005
[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base instructions on using the LFS pastebin
[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book
[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less user error system. This change will will need to be validated by by other devs
[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.
December 3, 2005
[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both from LFS.
December 2, 2005
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.
December 1, 2005
[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.
[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.
[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.
November 30, 2005
[jim] - Text updates to final-system.
[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.
November 29, 2005
[jim] - Text updates to chroot.
[jim] - Text updates to boot.
November 28, 2005
[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.
[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.
[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.
November 27, 2005
[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.
[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.
November 25, 2005
[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.
November 24, 2005
[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page
[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect that it no longer exists
November 23, 2005
[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in /tools/include.
November 21, 2005
[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.
[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.
November 20, 2005
[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.
November 18, 2005
[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite package.
November 17, 2005
[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.
[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS Architecture. New Patch added.
[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.
November 13, 2005
[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step, as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.
[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.
November 10, 2005
[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.
[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.
November 9, 2005
[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.
[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.
November 8, 2005
[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.
November 7, 2005
[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc/vim-7.0 instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.
[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.
November 6, 2005
[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.
[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.
[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.
November 5, 2005
[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.
November 3, 2005
[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale. Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.
October 31, 2005
[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.
Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005