20010921 - September 21st, 2001
Updated to:
e2fsprogs-1.24
September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the mailing list information to reflect the new ml structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.
September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC: Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to --enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads when not specified, it's clearer this way what's being enabled.
September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc: Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in /bin).
September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux: Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that /usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in /usr/bin.
September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Updated to version 1.24.
September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added missing && to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755 instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be running as the owner of that file).
3.0-rc2 - September 8th, 2001
Updated to:
sysvinit-2.82
September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Sysvinit: Seperated the commands to change the status msg in init.c from the main commands.
September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bash: Added --login to the exec /bin/bash command.
September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - GCC: Removed duplicate explanation (the patch and --enable-languages ones) that are already in chapter 5 - gcc.
September 7th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Sysvinit: updated to 2.82.
September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 2: Added "How to ask for help" section.
September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Makedev: changed chmod to 754. Makes more sense, non-root can't run it anways.
September 6th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Diffutils, Grep and Sed: Moved the export CPPFLAGS fixes out of the main install instructions and explained when they are necessary.
September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Gzip and Sh-utils: Moved the patches out of the main install instructions to a seperate section as we already do with the tar patch. Also removed gzip-exp.xml and shellutils-exp.xml as the explanations are now part of the installation text.
September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Bash: Added notes that the ncurses-dev package must be installed and the libcurses.a symlink created if missing. Added --with-curses back to Bash's installation, this now functions as a good test to make sure ncurses is installed (if not, texinfo will fail).
September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Net-tools: Instead of running make install, we now run make update. It does the same, except make update doesn't make backup of programs it's replacing.
September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Procinfo: Removed sed and replaced with a flag to make.
September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Added explanation as to why we use --with-root-prefix=/
September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: We can supply a value to --with-root-prefix now. It's not necessary, but it makes things a lot clearer.
September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Removed command to move mklost+found to /sbin.
September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapters 5 & 6: Added notes to the gcc, binutils and glibc installations that these packages behave badly when the default optimization flags are changed and should be left alone.
September 4th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Bzip2: Added ln command to create /lib/libbz2.so
September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Appendix A - Psmisc: This package provides a pidof as well, added explanation of it.
September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed, Vim, Shadow: Added missing && after the sed and echo commands.
September 1st, 2001 [gerard]: Changed links to other areas in the book to xml xref tags so you can click on them when reading non-html formats (like pdf).
September 1st, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - Contact information: Changed the text to use one of the mailing lists, not just lfs-discuss (and provide a link to maillist.xml for the mailing lists list).
August 31st, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter7 - mountfs, functions: Added the -f option to the rm command that removes fastboot and forcecheck. This option should never have been removed in the first place.
3.0-RC1 - August 31st, 2001
Updated to:
MAKEDEV-1.3
autoconf-2.52
automake-1.5
binutils-2.11.2
e2fsprogs-1.23
file-3.36
gcc-2.95.3
gettext-0.10.39
glibc-2.2.4
groff-1.17.2
linux-2.4.8
man-pages-1.39
modutils-2.4.7
sysvinit-2.81
util-linux-2.11h
August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter6 - Kbd: Removed the removal of the defkeymap file. Instead just make install it, added a note that loadkeys -d doesn't work properly and leave it with that..
August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Binutils: removed the -e options to 'make' which aren't necessary anymore. They were removed in chapter 5 already, but forgotten to commit changes to chapter 6.
August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bin86: Added a note that this package may not be needed if lilo isn't used.
August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Added a note that nothing in LFS depends on Ed (except for patch, but ed formatted patch files are very rare these days), so you can safely skip it.
August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Various updates to the text through the entire book (mostly grammatical fixes and such).
August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Texinfo: Added the explanation of the make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex command.
August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-M4: Removed the note about linking m4 statically outside of chroot. LFS doesn't use Glibc-2.1.x anymore, so this claim may not be true. It'll have to be tested again.
August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6+*: Removed the -f flags from cp commands. cp's behaviour has changed with fileutils-4.1, doing something totally different than expected.
August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6: Removed some unnecessary line breaks (so a command continues on a next line).
August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5: The former two sed operations are combined into one sed operation now.
August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Preface: Inserted the currrent LFS website's introduction into "Who wants to read this book".
August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Synchronized the changelog, http and ftp mirrors with the LFS website.
August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Glibc and Bash: simplified the installation instructions. We no longer exit chroot to finish the installation. This _may_ not work properly if your host distribution is an old 2.0.x based kernel, but we have no way of testing this at the moment. We'll deal with that when bug reports come in.
August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Moved rebooting into LFS from chapter 8 to chapter 9, after we run that find command.
August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Updated the find command in chapter 9.
August 27th, 2001 [markh]: upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.23 and MAKEDEV-1.3.
August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Added dependency lists for all installed packages. You now can see which programs from which packages you need in order to compile and install a package.
August 27th, 2001 [markh]: After a discussion on #lfs, we've downgraded the book to linux-2.4.8 due to performance problems with 2.4.9.
August 26th, 2001 [markh]: Moved appendix c --> appendix d and appendix b --> appendix c in order to create room for the dependency information to go into appendix b.
After much testing and discussing, it's been decided to downgrade to gcc-2.95.3 for the time being, until problems with the new gcc-3.0 version have been fixed.
Chapter 5: sed commands for bzip2 and mawk static compiles have been replaced with a simpler flag to gcc.
Chapter 5: A sed for fileutils-4.1 static has been added to avoid Segmentation Fault problems on glibc-2.2.3 systems.
Chapter 5: Binutils doens't require us passing -e to make in order for LDFLAGS=-static to work properly.
Chapter 5: GCC isn't statically linked anymore by using make -e LDFLAGS=-static, but by make BOOT_LDFLAGS=-static.
Chapter 5: Removed kernel patch for gcc-3.0 compilation
Chapter 5: Added gcc-patch to fix re_max_failure compile problems
Chapter 5: Added missing chown root.root $LFS/usr/include/linux to kernel installation
Chapter 5 & 6: Changed tar patch to use -j for bzip2 files instead of -y in order to be compatible with next tar release. Also renamed patch file to tar-1.13.patch
Chapters 5 & 6: Added a new patch for gcc-2.95.3 which fixes various problems such as the weak symbol bug.
Chapter 6: Bzip2 and shadowutils static libraries are now put in /usr/lib instead of /lib. There are now also links from /usr/lib to their dynamic libraries in /lib to enable the linker to still find the dynamic versions.
Chapter 6: ncurses patch totally removed. Static libraries now moved to /usr/lib and libcurses.a symlink created manually. A symlink is also created from /usr/lib to the dynamic libraries in /lib so that the linker still sees them.
Chapter 6: Yacc script in bison page now uses exec bison which replaces the shell.
Chapter 6: Util-linux sed command has been replaced with a flag to make.
Chapter 6: Man patch replaced with sed command.
Chapter 6: Removed shadow-utils patch in favour of a sed command
Chapter 6: Removed sysvinit patch in favour of a sed command.
Chapter 6: Removed the Groff command explanation regarding CXXFLAGS which has been made obsolete with the update to groff-1.17.1
Chapter 6: Moved the net-tools installation until after sh-utils so that net-tools can replace sh-utils's /bin/hostname.
Chapter 6: After installing Glibc, run exec /bin/bash --login instead of exiting and re-entering the chroot'ed environment.
Chapter 7: Changed $* into "$@" in the functions and rc scripts. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks.
Chapter 7: Added print_error_msg from the rcS script as it appears in the rc script as well.
3.0-pre4 - June 22nd, 2001
Chapter 5: Reordered the installations alphabetically.
Chapter 6: Moved the installations of ed and patch into their alphabetical positions.
Chapter 7: Added [ ATTN ] warning message to the functions script. When you attemp to start a service that's already running or stop a service that's not running, it'll not print FAILED anymore but [ ATTN ] along with "Already running" or "Not running".
Chapter 9: Renamed the network-scripts directory in nic-config.
3.0-pre3 - May 12th, 2001
Added numerous FHS compliance notes. These instructions can be followed if one wishes to build a fully FHS-compliant system.
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: 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: 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 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+8: Moved the creation of /etc/fstab to chapter 8.
Appendix A: Added missing descriptions of frcode, code and bigram in the findutils-4.1 package.
3.0-pre2 - April 14th, 2001
Chapter 5: Simplified ln commands.
Chapter 5: Removed prefix=$LFS/usr from tar's make install.
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: Changed the links we create during gcc-installation to $LFS/usr/bin/cpp.
Chapter 6: Changed the procps installation from sed'ing to an easier way.
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.
Appendix A: Added the description of the Netkit-base and Net-tools packages.
3.0-pre1 - February 27th, 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. Reiser for example is often used too now.
Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo and partially gettext to faciliate 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+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: Upgraded from gcc-2.95.2 to gcc-2.95.2.1
Chapter 5+6: Moved Glibc from chapter 5 to chapter 6
Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils to libexecdir=/bin
Chapter 6: Updated Glibc installation instructions. '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: 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 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 10: Added this chapter. It contains "thanks and good luck"notes and suggest creating the /etc/lfs-20010921 file