This is version 2.1.0 of the Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch book, dated October 06, 2013. 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://trac.cross-lfs.org/.
Below is a list of detailed changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
06 October 2013
[William Harrington] - Fix shm umount during end section reboot.
24 September 2013
[William Harrington] - Update File to 5.15.
23 September 2013
[William Harrington] - Update M4 to 1.4.17.
[William Harrington] - Update EUDEV to 1.3.
[William Harrington] - Update DHCPCD to 6.1.0.
[William Harrington] - Update TCL to 8.6.1.
[William Harrington] - Update Man-pages to 3.54.
19 September 2013
[William Harrington] - Remove pt_chown entries from book.
09 September 2013
[William Harrington] - Increase the stack size during the GCC testsuite.
08 September 2013
[William Harrington] - Change GID of tty to 5 and tape to 4.
03 September 2013
[William Harrington] - Fix final system EUDEV installation.
30 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Move GDB python files auto-load directory.
28 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Add GCC 4.8.1 branch update patch.
23 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Update KMOD to 15.
[William Harrington] - Update KBD to 2.0.0.
[William Harrington] - Add Check to test-suite tools.
22 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Install firmware option during boot method.
[William Harrington] - Add rule to Eudev installs for proper ethernet device naming.
21 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Update EGLIBC to 2.18-r23806.
[William Harrington] - Update Linux to 3.10.9.
19 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Add missing make mrproper to final-system linux headers install.
[William Harrington] - Add M4=m4 to temp system configure commands of Bison and Flex as M4 is hardcoded to /cross-tools.
16 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Gettext to 0.18.3.1.
[William Harrington] - Update Bison to 3.0.
15 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Fix shm mount during chroot virtual kernel filesystems.
14 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Add --noclear to inittab.
[William Harrington] - Disable fixincludes for GCC in temp and final systems.
[William Harrington] - Update Perl to 5.18.1.
12 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Add ac_cv_prog_lex_is_flex=yes to temp-system and final-system Bison.
[William Harrington] - Update Vim to Vim 7.4.
[William Harrington] - Fix temp system GCC for HOST gmp isl and cloog libraries and headers.
08 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Migrate to Eudev.
[William Harrington] - Update Bootscripts for Eudev.
07 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Dhcpcd to 6.0.5.
06 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Update LESS to 460.
[William Harrington] - Update IPutils to s20121221.
[William Harrington] - Disable Vlock in KBD as it requires PAM.
[William Harrington] - Update Libestr to 0.1.5.
[William Harrington] - Update Rsyslog to 6.4.2.
05 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Remove --enable-arch from final-system Util-Linux as it is no longer used.
[William Harrington] - Update Bash patch to upstream version 4.2-045.
04 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Vim updates to last 1314 patch level.
[William Harrington] - Update boot method KMOD to support xz and zlib.
[William Harrington] - Remove unneeded config cache entry for c_cv_func_setpgrp_void during boot method shadow cross compilation.
[William Harrington] - Update EGLIBC 2.17 to Revision 23679.
[William Harrington] - Remove mpbsd configure option from final-system GMP.
02 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Add GMP, MPFR, MPC, ISL, CLooG configure options to temp system GCC configure.
01 August 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Util-Linux to 2.23.2.
[William Harrington] - Update Man-Pages to 3.53.
[William Harrington] - Update ISL to 0.12.1.
[William Harrington] - Add Make-3.82 fixes patch.
30 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Remove unneeded --disable-cloog-version-check from all gcc configure commands.
30 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Remove unneeded commands from linux header installation commands and adjust INSTALL_HDR_PATH variable.
29 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Enable graphite for cross-tools toolchain.
[William Harrington] - Remove unnecessary sed for headers and libraries for graphite.
27 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Add MD5SUMS and SHA1SUMS to packages introduction.
[William Harrington] - Add wget example to packages introduction.
25 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Add sed to cross-tools and temp-system binutils for hosts using Texinfo 5.x.
23 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Add Bc to cross-tools and final-system.
[William Harrington] - Update Linux kernel version to 3.10.2.
[William Harrington] - Update IPRoute2 to 3.10.0.
22 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Update KBD to 1.15.5.
[William Harrington] - Remove unneeded KBD es_po patch.
09 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Gettext to 0.18.3.
[William Harrington] - Remove unneeded config.cache command for Temp System Patch.
08 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Remove unneeded entries to cross-tools EGLIBC config.cache and change description.
[William Harrington] - Remove unneeded inst_vardbdir install option for current EGLIBC.
07 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Update TZData to 2013d.
06 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Man-Pages to 3.52.
03 July 2013
[William Harrington] - Update KMOD to 14.
25 June 2013
[William Harrington] - Add ISL 0.12 to the book.
24 June 2013
[William Harrington] - Updated Gzip to 1.6.
[William Harrington] - Update E2fsprogs to 1.42.8.
07 June 2013
[William Harrington] - Add a sed to Tar-1.26 installs as gets() is no longer declared with Glibc-2.17.
[William Harrington] - Update Vim branch update patch to level 1140.
05 June 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Eglibc to 2.17.
[William Harrington] - Remove Eglibc fixes patch.
[William Harrington] - Add TZ Data to final systme Eglibc install.
03 June 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Iproute2 to 3.8.0.
[William Harrington] - Update GCC to 4.8.1.
[William Harrington] - Update CLooG to 0.18.0.
[William Harrington] - Remove PPL.
[William Harrington] - Remove -fexceptions from GMP builds.
[William Harrington] - Update CLooG build instructions.
02 June 2013
[William Harrington] - Add a sed for temp-system Gawk extension error.
31 May 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Coreutils to 8.21.
[William Harrington] - Update Bison to 2.7.1.
[William Harrington] - Update Util-linux to 2.23.1.
[William Harrington] - Expand tcl space for regular expressions required by some tests.
28 May 2013
[William Harrington] - Update File to 5.14.
27 May 2013
[William Harrington] - Update Zlib to 1.2.8.
[William Harrington] - Add g++ to host reqs test script.
[William Harrington] - Update MPFR to 3.1.2.
[William Harrington] - Update GMP to 5.1.2.
[William Harrington] - Update Binutils to 2.23.2.
[William Harrington] - Update DejaGNU to 1.5.1.
[William Harrington] - Update Diffutils to 3.3.
[William Harrington] - Update E2fsprogs to 1.42.7.
[William Harrington] - Update Gawk to 4.1.0.
[William Harrington] - Update GMP to 5.1.2.
[William Harrington] - Update Gettext to 0.18.2.1.
[William Harrington] - Update Groff to 1.22.2.
[William Harrington] - Update KMOD to 13.
[William Harrington] - Update Less to 459.
[William Harrington] - Update Linux to 3.8.13.
[William Harrington] - Man-Pages to 3.51.
[William Harrington] - Update Perl to 5.18.0.
[William Harrington] - Update Pkg-Config-Lite to 0.28-1.
[William Harrington] - Update Sed to 4.2.2.
[William Harrington] - Update TCL to 8.6.0.
24 April 2013
[William Harrington] - Changelog restarted, see the 2.0.0 book for the old changelog.