Linux From Scratch   ::   Beekmans Gerard

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.