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1.3. Changelog
This is version 9.0 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated September 1st, 2019. 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/mirrors.html.
Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
• 2019-09-01
• [bdubbs] - LFS-9.0 released.
• 2019-08-14
• [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.1.1846. Fixes #4500.
• [bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.177. Fixes #4516.
• [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-9.2.0. Fixes #4514.
• [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.1.3. Fixes #4513.
• [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.8.6.1. Fixes #4512.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.8. Fixes #4511.
• 2019-08-04
• [bdubbs] - Fix a problem introduced by linux-5.2 by adding an include file to a glibc header.
• 2019-08-03
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.5. Fixes #4505.
• [bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.2.0. Fixes #4507.
• [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.30. Fixes #4508.
• [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.02. Fixes #4509.
• 2019-07-21
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.2. Fixes #4504.
• [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.1.1. Fixes #4503.
• [bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.1.0. Fixes #4502.
• [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.3. Fixes #4501.
• 2019-07-14
• [bdubbs] - Fix testing of binutils-2.32 gold linker. Fixes #4498.
• [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2019b. Fixes #4492.
• [bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.7.4. Fixes #4496.
• [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.51.1. Fixes #4497.
• [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.2.0. Fixes #4495.
• [bdubbs] - Update to grub-2.04. Fixes #4494.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.2.1. Fixes #4493.
• [bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.1.0. Fixes #4436.
• [bdubbs] - Update to bzip2-1.0.8. Fixes #4499.
• 2019-06-29
• [bdubbs] - Properly initialize a data structure in OpenSSL to avoid valgrind uninitialized value errors. Fixes
#4491.
• [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.51.0. Fixes #4483.
• [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-5.0.1. Fixes #4486.
• [bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.7. Fixes #4488.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.15. Fixes #4487.
• [bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.95. Fixes #4484.
• [bdubbs] - Update to bzip2-1.0.7. Fixes #4490.
• 2019-06-24
• [renodr] - Fixed issue with installing Check's documentation in a versioned directory. Thanks goes to Ryan Marsaw for the report. This was fixed by removing the unrecognized/unused --docdir and replacing it with a "docdir=" in the make install command.
• 2019-06-18
• [renodr] - Update to linux-5.1.11. Fixes the SOCK PANIC issue. Fixes #4485.
• 2019-06-16
• [bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.1.1535. Fixes #4482.
• [bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.7. Fixes #4481.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.10. Fixes #4478.
• [bdubbs] - Update to less-551. Fixes #4477.
• [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.34. Fixes #4462.
• [bdubbs] - Remove eudev instructions referring to /tools. Fixes #4480.
• 2019-06-08
• [renodr] - make it so that the instructions for removing symlinks before building Util-Linux in Chapter 6 are only visible in systemd.
• 2019-06-03
• [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.30.0. Fixes #4474.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.6. Fixes #4473.
• [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1c. Fixes #4476.
• [bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.8. Fixes #4472.
• [bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.4.1. Fixes #4471.
• [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.2. Fixes #4475.
• 2019-05-24
• [dj] - Cosmetic changes to LFS bootscripts.
• 2019-05-19
• [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.01. Fixes #4467.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.1.3. Fixes #4464.
• [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.1.0. Fixes #4467.
• [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.20.1. Fixes #4465.
• [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.37. Fixes #4469.
• [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.1. Fixes #4468.
• 2019-05-03
• [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-9.1.0. Fixes #4463.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.11. Fixes #4461.
• 2019-04-23
• [bdubbs] - Apply a change to allow Perl to build correctly when building with the latest versions of gcc.
• 2019-04-20
• [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.28.2. Fixes #4460.
• [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.50.1. Fixes #4459.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.9. Fixes #4458.
• [bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.27. Fixes #4457.
• 2019-04-15
• [bdubbs] - Update bzip2 url. Fixes #4450.
• [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.33.2. Fixes #4454.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.7. Fixes #4449.
• [bdubbs] - Update to gawk-5.0.0. Fixes #4455.
• 2019-03-27
• [bdubbs] - Revert to meson-0.49.2.
• 2019-03-26
• [bdubbs] - Update to tzdata2019a. Fixes #4448.
• [bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.7.3. Fixes #4447.
• 2019-03-25
• [bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.0.0. Fixes #4446.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.4. Fixes #4444.
• [xry111] - Use -ffile-prefix-map instead of -isystem and symlinks in the Glibc build to simplify the instruction.
• 2019-03-13
• [xry111] - Update contents and short descriptions of packages. Fixes #4443.
• 2019-03-12
• [bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.50.0. Fixes #4442.
• [bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-8.31. Fixes #4441.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0.1. Fixes #4440.
• [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.00. Fixes #4439.
• [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.0. Fixes #4438.
• 2019-03-05
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.0. Fixes #4437.
• 2019-03-01
• [bdubbs] - Update to texinfo-6.6. Fixes #4427.
• [bdubbs] - Update to tar-1.32. Fixes #4431.
• [bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.94. Fixes #4432.
• [bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1b. Fixes #4435.
• [bdubbs] - Update to gcc-8.3.0. Fixes #4430.
• [bdubbs] - Update to linux-4.20.13. Fixes #4434.
• 2019-03-01
• [bdubbs] - LFS-8.4 released.