September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – About debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences.
September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – Install all software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the compilation of symbols in static packages.
August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Makedev: Put rm /bin/bash after device creation. Perclass="underline" Removed information about the old patch.
August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – GCC: Re-added HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN; removed –enable-__cxa-atexit which was incorrect and not needed in this chapter; added information about the patch.
August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new Glibc patch and introducted a GCC patch.
August 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to automake-1.6.3, gcc-3.2, groff-1.18, makedev-1.7, perl-5.8.0, util-linux-2.11u
August 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Appendix: Added missing URLs to patches.
August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06: Changed ln -sf to ln -s wherever possible.
August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Binutils: cp libiberty.h after install, as it is needed by certain software. Shadow: added command to remove the groups program installed by Shadow because Sh-utils installs a (better) groups program.
August 18th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – Sh-utils: Re-added sh-utils-2.0.patch.
August 16th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Move man-pages to just after the kernel headers installation.
August 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Move the MAKEDEV installation to before glibc and remove the temporary creation of /dev/null as we don't need it anymore.
August 15th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 – Preparing a new partition: mentioned that a swap partition can be shared between the LFS and host systems, grammatic changes.
August 13th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed the –with-curses switch from the Bash installation as it's unnecessary here.
August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to modutils-2.4.19, linux-2.4.19, gettext-0.11.5, binutils-2.13, textutils-2.1.
August 9th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Vim: changed alternative editors link from hints to BLFS.
August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Ncurses: removed the –disable-termcap configure option. Termcap is disabled by default now, so no need for this option (left over from a long time ago when it was needed).
August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Linux: Added the command cp include/asm-generic /usr/include. There are programs which use the files in there, as well as headers in the asm directory may be split up in the future, and put in the asm-generic.
August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Gettext: added the missing program description of msgcat.
August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4.
August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52, man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils-2.4.18.
July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs. Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39.
July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 & 05 – Creating a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils, Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to auto-host.h.
July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Glibc: added –disable-profile flag.
July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 – Linux: added information about modules and kernel documentation.
July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system: added a command to remove the static directory.
July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step.
July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Sysvinit: Simplified the sed command and updated the installation description because init now prints «Sending processes» instead of «Sending all processes».
July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change – Made all patches use a &package-patch-version; entity and removed all hardcoding of patch versions.
June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and automake-1.6.2
June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Shadow, Util-linux, LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents.
June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Net-tools, Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison, Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps, Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents.
June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 & 06 – M4, Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added «last checked against» for uniformity. GCC: Removed i686-specific programs.
June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Gettext: Updated package contents.
June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Binutils, Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description of c++filt.
June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – The End: Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-4.0 to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version number inside this file.
June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – GCC: Modified the build instructions and command explanations to only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed until after the second GCC build.
June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Shadow: grammatic changes.
June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Gawk: Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils: Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC: Updated the package contents.
June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the estimated required disk space.
June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Creating Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p option to mkdir which will create the usr directory anyways.
June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 – Reiserfsprogs: added a description for unpack.
June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 – How to ask for help: mentioned the FAQ.
June 6th, 2002 [markh] – Chapter 05 – Tidy up explanations following the /static change.
June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface – Who would not want to read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar patch.
June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors. Chapter 06 – Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 – Gawk: to avoid confusion, mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06.
June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 – FAQ: edited to include reporting typos.
May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 – Findutils: Added the CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1 systems.
May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Update to binutils-2.12.1.
May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 – Bash: Removed section about «last two commands executing anyways» because we no longer have the commands referred to there.
May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Glibc: Replaced the various sed fixes with a regular patch.
May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Gawk: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.
May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 – Fileutils: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.
May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Ed: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.
May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Changing ownership: removed the explicit command to chown /lost+found. This is done by the first command now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.
May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used one).
May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1, bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2, modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix patches for ncurses, perl and vim.
May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 – Binutils: Removed the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to chapter 06-binutils.