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98 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Dubbs
f4e157affe Typos
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2009-11-28 21:53:14 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
a26951eac5 Separate standards page and rationale page
and reformat.  Provided more information about packages
 needed to satisfy LSB.

 Also fixed a couple of typos.



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2009-11-24 21:50:43 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
7413fd73a3 Several Typos
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2009-11-23 16:41:04 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
27a023ce78 Added a page describing the Linux standards LFS
uses to guide its procedures. Included a sub-section on why
each package is in the book.



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2009-11-23 08:36:36 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
67e01e5dce Update host requirements script
to print a comment that makeinfo is used to identify
print a comment that makeinfo is used to identify
the Texinfo package version

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2009-11-22 05:37:11 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
43b5b9593c Removed paragraph in LFS Target Architectures
that said that we can't build a 64-bit loader


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2009-11-17 20:16:13 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
f5c85b1592 Removed obsolete note on the Host System requirements page
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2009-11-14 20:43:05 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
4723e5de38 Spelling
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2009-09-10 13:58:11 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
8988b94cd0 Added a section to the Preface about LFS supported architectures
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2009-09-10 06:12:28 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
dc96e56c08 Change output if readelf to render on one line like the actual output.
Update formatting for pdf.
This is appearance only and did not change version number.
Fixes  Ticket #2438.


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2009-07-12 16:48:19 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
022886cd45 Added a list entry in the help section to
suggest that the results of the version check script be 
posted when asking for help

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2009-06-23 16:52:56 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
171aae75ff More typos
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2009-05-27 17:30:53 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
9ee226e24a Grammer and wording changes in the Preface
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2009-05-27 02:49:21 +00:00
Gerard Beekmans
613bd3844f Removed .From Power Up To Bash Prompt. reference. Fixes #2409.
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2009-05-27 01:17:46 +00:00
Gerard Beekmans
2f3f2225bc Couple more Preface edits.
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2009-05-24 16:41:49 +00:00
Gerard Beekmans
80470e99e8 Various third to second person edits.
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2009-05-24 06:30:54 +00:00
Gerard Beekmans
aa0a1be912 Edits suggested by Bruce.
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2009-05-24 06:26:02 +00:00
Gerard Beekmans
77355e7b38 First draft of new Audience section.
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2009-05-24 06:22:48 +00:00
Gerard Beekmans
64eb25d827 Draft version of replacement Foreword.
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2009-05-24 05:57:33 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
4c0c012ee1 Reformatted several pages so pdf is properly generated.
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2009-01-04 04:48:38 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
56ca3a5fa6 Added a note to the Host System Requirements that the
Linux host must be a 32-bit system and that the book only supports
a 32-bit build.

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2008-10-20 05:04:25 +00:00
Jeremy Huntwork
787fe0c794 Moved placement of m4 in chapters 5 and 6 so that
* the chapter 5 m4 links against the glibc in /tools
 * the chapter 6 m4 is built before anything that hard codes the location of m4
Added a host prerequisite for m4


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2008-10-19 03:09:26 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
26b44218d9 Added --disable-libssp to glibc Pass 1 in Chapter 5
to eliminate a build failure on some systems.

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2008-10-15 21:32:49 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
e4ab23261c Add note about symlink reqt in Host Requirements
Add simple compilation check in Host Requirements

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2008-10-05 23:13:55 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
7187e06b8b Typo
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2008-10-05 22:29:35 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
941fe5c763 Add explaination of backslash in typography
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2008-10-05 21:14:52 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
3ccd4fef31 Cosmetic change to perl check
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2008-10-04 00:14:35 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
eb745c8b3d Fix 'make validate' Makefile rule
Add Perl version check to Host System Requirements

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2008-10-04 00:07:02 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
1c4800743d Moved bootscripts and udev-config to BOOK
Updated Makefile to automatically generate bootscript and udev-config tarballs
Updated licesnse to be the same as BLFS

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2008-06-03 21:51:14 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
3f8f0edef3 More tweaks to version-check.sh
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2008-04-11 22:19:24 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
d439604a8b Tweak version-check.sh script
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2008-04-11 20:08:03 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
2380f02419 Typo/whitespace
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2008-04-11 19:52:46 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
067e51d1d6 Updated host requirments to check for symlinks
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2008-04-11 19:48:05 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
6069b7e8c1 Fix copyright date
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2008-04-11 03:45:08 +00:00
Matthew Burgess
9692a57692 Add Perl to the list of host requirements as Glibc needs it. Fixes #2112.
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2008-01-19 15:47:03 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
b8462fa754 Fix language issue in version check script
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2007-11-25 16:46:03 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
727a610cf1 Fixed test for Debian binutils.
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2007-11-25 16:38:38 +00:00
Jeremy Huntwork
20d4c8a7d0 Upgrade to Binutils-2.18. Fixes #2069. Thanks to Matt Burgess for the patch.
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2007-09-15 20:27:45 +00:00
Matthew Burgess
27b8ff9a25 Bump the minimum host version of Bison to 1.875 as earlier versions cause Bash to misbehave. Fixes #1977.
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2007-04-16 20:24:06 +00:00
Manuel Canales Esparcia
a3b689f29d Trailing spaces clean-up.
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2007-04-08 20:21:11 +00:00
Manuel Canales Esparcia
b06ca361a4 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5
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2007-03-21 18:42:58 +00:00
Dan Nichilson
acec47884b Force use of host's linker through *-pass1
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2007-03-14 04:31:35 +00:00
Manuel Canales Esparcia
9eabf94de8 Updated copyright year in legalnotice.
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2007-02-04 09:42:17 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
4038f34433 Tweak host requirements script
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2007-01-30 18:21:02 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
172a92e4aa Tweak hot requirements script
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2007-01-30 05:40:43 +00:00
Bruce Dubbs
4ec1d1c7ec Update copyright year
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2007-01-10 05:45:56 +00:00
Matthew Burgess
07dfccbedf Bison is a host-system requirement because of the Bash upstream fixes patch. Fixes #1863.
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2006-11-25 17:13:22 +00:00
Matthew Burgess
a12d50787f Fix a couple of typos in the prologue
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2006-05-08 20:08:04 +00:00
Jeremy Huntwork
2914ab8c7a Slight re-wording on hostreqs page and typo fix.
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2006-05-03 21:10:44 +00:00
Manuel Canales Esparcia
b179883a0d Added missing nodump attribute.
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2006-04-23 10:18:35 +00:00