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Archaic - 2005/07/06

HLFS is currently in an alpha state. Work continues on it constantly. It is recommended that only experienced testers read the current development book.

Latest SVN Changes

• Robert Connolly - 2006/11/23

  • Added mkstemp(3) patch for Patch.
  • Updated both Grep pages (xml).

• Robert Connolly - 2006/11/21

  • Don't mention testsuites for Binutils in chapter 5

• Robert Connolly - 2006/11/20

  • Bump to glibc-2.5. Removed glibc-iconv_fix-patch.
  • Bump to tcl8.4.14.
  • fixed the gcc specs_x86 patch
  • Bump to tar-1.16
  • dont 'make check' findutils in chapter 5
  • Bump to gettext-0.16
  • Added the linuxthreads package
  • Update new commands to build gettext in chapter 5
  • fix misspelling of 'complaint'
  • Fix md5sum of blowfish patch
  • Don't mention testsuites for Patch and Diffutils in chapter 5
  • Don't mention testsuites for Patch and Diffutils in chapter 5
  • Added gcc-linkonce patch
  • Added gcc-constraints patch
  • Fixed kernel header install commands in chapter 6
  • Bump to man-pages-2.41
  • Only install LibIDN in chapter 6, and fix the associated problem with that. Also add Sed command for the Bash/locale bug
  • Removed all the SSP and Mudflap stuff
  • I misspelled Sanity

• Robert Baker - 2006/11/14

  • 2.4-branch changed gcc-pass2 configure command to include dynamic linker switch

• Robert Baker - 2006/11/07

  • 2.4-branch Changed glibc configure linux version to 2.4
  • 2.4-branch Changed glibc configure linux version to 2.4

• Robert Connolly - 2006/10/16

  • Added Sed fixes-1 patch

• Robert Connolly - 2006/10/14

  • Use assert() to deal with fortify_source warnings (chapter 5)
  • Use assert() to deal with fortify_source warnings (chapter 6)
  • New binutils hardened_tmp patch
  • Fix indentation
  • remove unneeded cp
  • Use assert() to deal with fortify_source warnings in M4 chapter 6.
  • M4 can build with -Wall
  • Clarify some comments in Less and Bison pages
  • Added Less signal_fix patch.
  • Misspelled the Less patch
  • Use assert() to deal with fortify_source warnings in Less chapter 6. Add -Werror to Less too.

• Robert Connolly - 2006/10/13

  • Added fortify_warnings and configure_warnings patches to Vim.
  • We aren't installing the russian Vim man page, so don't try to symlink it

• Robert Connolly - 2006/10/12

  • Make an symlink for libncurses.so
  • Static libraries for readline dont get installed, so dont try to move them
  • Bump to vim fixes-13 patch
  • Bump to vim fixes-13 patch
  • removed the vim spellfile patch
  • Bump to vim hardened_tmp-2 patch
  • Add sed command to fix overflow in Vim

• Robert Connolly - 2006/10/11

  • Removed perl regex_ssp patch
  • Bump to texinfo-4.8a
  • Don't run testsuites for bison or texinfo in chapter 5
  • Don't run testsuites in Flex chapter 5
  • Update util-linux pages from LFS-svn
  • Bump to man-pages-2.39
  • Add nogroup to /etc/groups
  • Add nogroup to /etc/groups
  • Bump to linux-2.6.18. Added linux unifdef patch. Added util-linux lseek patch.
  • fix typos with linux patches
  • Typo in binutils hardened_tmp patch
  • bump to grsecurity-2.1.9-2.6.18-200610021833
  • Bump to binutils hardened_tmp-2 patch
  • Fix checksum for glibc-2.5-hardened_tmp-1.patch
  • Fix commands to move libmudflap to /lib
  • Fix checksum for glibc-2.5-pt_pax-1.patch
  • Fix checksum for glibc-iconv_unnest-patch
  • Added Glibc blowfish patch.
  • Remove hack for 'who' bug, no longer in coreutils-6.3
  • Bump to iana-etc-2.10.
  • Create a .orig file with sed command in findutils chapter 6
  • Create a .orig file with sed command in readline chapter 6