This is version 20200613-cross2 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated June 13th, 2020. 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:
2020-06-03
2020-05-31
[pierre] - Fix bash tests: add a couple of symlinks from /bin to /tools, create the tester user with the uid of the tty owner, run the bash tests with su << EOF, and explicitely defining stdin (with help from thomas and bdubbs).
2020-05-29
[xry111] - Move flex earlier in chapter 6, so that binutils can use it.
[xry111] - Remove bzip2 and flex from chapter 5.
[xry111] - Move zstd earlier in chapter 6, so that file and GCC can use it.
[bdubbs] - Run sed and findutils tests as an unprivileged user. Fixes #4661.
2020-05-28
[bdubbs] - Add an unprivileged user, tester, at the beginning of Chapter 6 for running some tests. This user is then removed at the end of the chapter.
[bdubbs] - Update to zstd-1.4.5. Fixes #4660.
[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.35.2. Fixes #4659.
[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.6.2. Fixes #4657.
[pierre] - Update to linux-5.6.15. Fixes #4658.
2020-05-27
[pierre] - Bash: document test results.
2020-05-26
[pierre] - Bash: do not use "su -c command" to change user to nobody: it removes the controlling terminal and makes some tests fail. Use "su << EOF" instead.
[pierre] - Mount /dev/pts with "--bind", so that "tty" knows there is a terminal. Fixes a test in coreutils.
[pierre] - Add a patch to fix a failure in gold test suite, which really needs -fcommon in some tests.
[pierre] - Fix a failure in automake test suite.
[pierre] - Update to vim-8.2.0814.
[pierre] - Add a symlink from /tools/lib/locale to /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, to allow some programs to find the installed locales. Fixes test failures in bison and man-db.
2020-05-21
[pierre] - Fix a crash at early boot when using CONFIG_STACK_PROTECTOR_STRONG=y in kernel configuration.
2020-05-16
2020-05-09
[pierre] - Patch GCC pass 2 to allow cross-compile (specific to new cross method).
2020-05-08
2020-05-01
2020-04-23
[ken] - Update to openssl-1.1.1g (Security Fix). Fixes #4643.
2020-04-20
[pierre] - Change -isystem to -idirafter in "Adjusting the toolchain". This allows to search g++ private headers before the public ones, which is the normal search order, with the drawback that it includes the headers in /tools if they exist in both /usr and /tools. Fix most of #4641.
2020-04-19
[pierre] - Build util-linux in chapter 5 for both books. link util-linux libraries and headers from /usr to /tools. Copy util-linux pkg-config files from /tools to /usr, changing any occurence of /tools to /usr. Also move eudev before util-linux. Fixes #4637, #4638, and #4642.
[pierre] - Reinstate flex in chapter 5, so that ar and ranlib (binutils) link against libfl. This allows to run tests for bison, too. Fixes #4631.
[pierre] - Prevent readline.pc from referencing termcap as a private library by adding --with-curses to configure switches. Fixes #4635.
[pierre] - Allow bison to use the libtextstyle.so library from gettext, by moving gettext before bison. Fixes #4634.
[pierre] - Allow some shadow programs to use "setcap" by moving libcap before shadow. Fixes #4633.
[pierre] - Fix a wrong hardcoded path in some programs from the shadow package. Fixes #4632.
2020-04-15
[bdubbs] - Update to gawk-5.1.0. Fixes #4629.
[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.20.2. Fixes #4628.
[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.06. Fixes #4626.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-2.6.1. Fixes #4625.
[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.5.4. Fixes #4623.
[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.6.0. Fixes #4622.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.6.4. Fixes #4615.
2020-04-01
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.0486. Addresses #4500.
[bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.179. Fixes #4621.
[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.54.0. Fixes #4620.
[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.45.6. Fixes #4619.
[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.16.2. Fixes #4618.
[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.2.5. Fixes #4617.
[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1f. Fixes #4616.
[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.30.2. Fixes #4614.
2020-03-29
[bdubbs] - Textual updates thanks to Kevin Buckley.
2020-03-29
[bdubbs] - Textual updates thanks to Kevin Buckley.
2020-03-15
2020-03-02
[bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.8.2. Fixes #4606.
[bdubbs] - Update to meson-0.52.2. Fixes #4605.
[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.9.1. Fixes #4604.
[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-27. Fixes #4603.
[bdubbs] - Update to procps-3.3.16. Fixes #4602.
[bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-23.3. Fixes #4601.
[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.33. Fixes #4608.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.5.7. Fixes #4598.
2020-03-01
[bdubbs] - LFS-9.1 released.