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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 Baker - 2010/05/16

  • Added symlink case for x86_64 build.

• Robert Baker - 2010/05/06

  • Change configure to use --disable-shared because of segfaults.
  • Changed configure to use --disable-shared because of segfault. Added symlink to satisfy lgcc_eh library requirement. (This symlink command may need some adjusting for other architectures.)

• Robert Connolly - 2010/03/03

  • Up to M4 1.4.14

• Robert Connolly - 2010/02/27

  • Mentioned support for parallel builds. Added GCC specs patches for -fomit-frame-pointer -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,-O1 optimizations, to compensate the performance losses from ssp, source fortification, and non-lazy runtime bindings.

• Robert Connolly - 2010/02/25

  • Use -march=i486 -mtune=native when building Glibc on an x86.

• Robert Connolly - 2010/02/24

  • Added Attr.
  • Added Acl.
  • Added Libcap2.
  • Added upstream fixes patch to Make.
  • Added Perl upstream fixes patch.

• Robert Connolly - 2010/02/23

  • Bump to perl-5.10.1.
  • Bump to sed-4.2.1.
  • Bump to sysvinit-2.87.
  • Use the lzma tarball for Texinfo package.
  • Bump to udev-151.
  • Bump to util-linux-ng-2.17.1.
  • Move Sed up in the build order, and use the sed -i option with other packages.
  • Don't install GMP and MPFR info and manual pages.
  • Install Glibc's utilities to /tools/bin.
  • Fix /tools/bin/ldd for x86_64.

• Robert Connolly - 2010/02/22

  • Bump to diffutils-2.9.
  • Added the XZ Utils package.
  • Use the xz copy of Diffutils tarball.
  • Use the xz copy of Coreutils tarball.
  • Bump to e2fsprogs-1.41.10.
  • Bump to tcl8.5.8.
  • Added GCC44 patch to Flex.
  • Bump to gawk-3.1.7. Added libsigsegv patch for Gawk.
  • Edited Gettext comments.
  • Bump to gzip-1.4.
  • New gzip cve-2006-4337 patch. Fixes implicit declaration of function warning.
  • Bump to linux-2.6.32.8. New grsecurity and loop-aes versions.
  • Bump to m4-1.4.13.
  • Bump to module-init-tools-3.11.1.
  • Bump to patch-2.6.1

• Robert Connolly - 2010/02/21

  • The /tools/bin/sh symlink in the Bash page needs to be forced because it already exists from the Glibc page.

• Robert Connolly - 2010/02/20

  • Bump to Glibc-2.11.1.
  • Don't install '.install' and '..install.cmd' files with kernel headers to /tools.