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LFS 6.4 Release

Bruce Dubbs - 2008/11/23

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.4. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.3 (including update to Linux-2.6.27.4, GCC-4.3.2, Glibc-2.8) and security fixes. It also includes a large amount of editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.

You can read the book online, or download to read locally.

Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.

LFS 6.4 Release Candidate 1

Bruce Dubbs - 2008/11/06

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.4 Release Candidate 1. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.3 (including update to Linux-2.6.27.4, GCC-4.3.2, Glibc-2.8) and security fixes. It also includes a large amount of editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.

You can read the book online, or download to read locally.

Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.

Latest SVN Changes

• Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/12/02

  • Move grep up in the build order. Thanks, Greg Schafer for the reminder.

• Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/12/01

  • Adjust line break in adjusting toolchain section to avoid confusion

• Bruce Dubbs - 2008/11/26

  • Adding 6.4 tag

• Bruce Dubbs - 2008/11/23

  • Fixups for LFS-6.4

• Matthew Burgess - 2008/11/23

  • Cleanup What's New section following cleanup of ChangeLog

• Matthew Burgess - 2008/11/22

  • Fix call to aux-file-data.sh for systems which don't link /bin/sh to /bin/bash (e.g. Kubuntu-8.10). Other shells (e.g. dash) don't contain pushd and popd as shell builtins.

• Ken Moffat - 2008/11/20

  • I finally got around to the note about ABI=32.

• Ken Moffat - 2008/11/18

  • Fix typo - I hope.

• Bruce Dubbs - 2008/11/16

  • Add German to localization stylesheet

• DJ Lucas - 2008/11/15

  • corrected date