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Added a more detailed list of minimum software requirements.

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Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
Resolves ticket 1598.


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chapter01/changelog.xml
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<listitem>
<para>April 19, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>April 18, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; $gt:, optional text
replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
</listitem>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060418">
<!ENTITY releasedate "April 18, 2006">
<!ENTITY version "SVN-20060419">
<!ENTITY releasedate "April 19, 2006">
<!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->

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<title>Host System Requirements</title>
<para>The host must be running at least a 2.6.2 kernel compiled with GCC-3.0
or higher. There are two main reasons for this requirement. First, the Native
POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
has not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version. Second, the 2.6.2 or
later version of the kernel is required for the use of Udev. Udev creates
devices dynamically by reading from the <systemitem
<para>Your host system should have the following software with the minimum
versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most modern Linux
distributions. Also note that many distributions will place software headers
into separate packages, often in the form of <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote>
or <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those as well, if
your distribution provides them.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Bash-2.05a</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than &binutils-version; not recommended.)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Bzip2-1.0.2</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Coreutils-5.0 (or Sh-Utils-2.0, Textutils-2.0
and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Diffutils-2.8</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Findutils-4.1.20</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gawk-3.0</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gcc-2.95.3 (Versions greater than &gcc-version; not recommended.)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Glibc-2.2.5 (Versions greater than &glibc-version; not recommended.)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Grep-2.5</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Gzip-1.2.4</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Linux Kernel-2.6.2 (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Make-3.79.1</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Patch-2.5.4</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sed-3.0.2</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Tar-1.14</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>There are two main reasons for the kernel version requirement. First,
the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the
host's kernel has not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version. Second,
the 2.6.2 or later version of the kernel is required for the use of Udev.
Udev creates devices dynamically by reading from the <systemitem
class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> file system. However, support for this
filesystem has only recently been implemented in most of the kernel drivers.
We must be sure that all critical system devices get created properly.</para>
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doesn't offer a 2.6.2 (or later) kernel package, or you would prefer not to
install it, then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for
compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host
uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>. This second
option can also be seen as a gauge of your current Linux skills. If this
second requirement is too steep, then the LFS book will not likely be much
use to you at this time.</para>
uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
</sect1>