Fix typo in date

Update to meson-1.8.2.
Update to linux-6.15.2.
Update to libffi-3.5.1.
Update to iproute2-6.15.0.
Update to Python-3.13.5.

appendices/dependencies.xml

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
   %general-entities;
   <!-- Convenient entity for "Systemd" or "Udev" -->
-  <!ENTITY systemd-udev "<phrase revision='systemd'>Systemd</phrase>
-                         <phrase revision='sysv'>Udev</phrase>">
+  <!ENTITY systemd-udev "<phrase revision='systemd'>Systemd</phrase><phrase revision='sysv'>Udev</phrase>">
   <!ENTITY bdb "<ulink url='https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html'>Berkeley DB</ulink>">
 ]>
 
@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="acl-depends">
         <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC,  Gettext, Grep, M4, Make,
+          <seg>Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Grep, M4, Make,
           Perl, Sed, and Texinfo</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
@@ -400,49 +399,6 @@
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
-<!-- Begin Check dependency info -->
-  <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="check-dep">Check</bridgehead>
-
-      <segmentedlist id="check-depends">
-        <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-        <seglistitem>
-          <seg>Gawk, GCC, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo</seg>
-        </seglistitem>
-      </segmentedlist>
-
-      <segmentedlist id="check-rundeps">
-        <segtitle>&runtime;</segtitle>
-        <seglistitem>
-          <seg>Bash and Gawk</seg>
-        </seglistitem>
-      </segmentedlist>
-
-      <segmentedlist id="check-testdeps">
-        <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
-        <seglistitem>
-          <seg>None</seg>
-        </seglistitem>
-      </segmentedlist>
-
-      <segmentedlist id="check-before">
-        <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
-        <seglistitem>
-          <seg>None</seg>
-        </seglistitem>
-      </segmentedlist>
-
-      <segmentedlist id="check-optdeps">
-        <segtitle>&external;</segtitle>
-        <seglistitem>
-          <seg>
-            <ulink url='&github;/testing-cabal/subunit'>libsubunit</ulink>
-            and
-            <ulink url='http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/patchutils/'>
-              patchutils</ulink>
-          </seg>
-        </seglistitem>
-      </segmentedlist>
-
 <!-- Begin Coreutils dependency info -->
   <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="coreutils-dep">Coreutils</bridgehead>
 
@@ -872,7 +828,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="flit-core-before">
         <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>Wheel</seg>
+          <seg>Packaging and Wheel</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -1240,7 +1196,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="groff-testdeps">
         <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>No test suite available</seg>
+          <seg>None</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -1276,7 +1232,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="grub-rundeps">
         <segtitle>&runtime;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>Bash, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Xz, and Sed.</seg>
+          <seg>Bash, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Xz, and Sed</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -1545,7 +1501,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="kbd-depends">
         <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-         <seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Check, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext,
+         <seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext,
          Glibc, Gzip, Make, Patch, and Sed</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
@@ -1642,7 +1598,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="less-testdeps">
         <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>No test suite available</seg>
+          <seg>None</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -2460,6 +2416,46 @@
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
+<!-- Begin Packaging dependency info -->
+  <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="Packaging-dep">Packaging</bridgehead>
+
+      <segmentedlist id="packaging-depends">
+        <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
+        <seglistitem>
+          <seg>Flit-core and Python</seg>
+        </seglistitem>
+      </segmentedlist>
+
+      <segmentedlist id="packaging-rundeps">
+        <segtitle>&runtime;</segtitle>
+        <seglistitem>
+          <seg>Python</seg>
+        </seglistitem>
+      </segmentedlist>
+
+      <segmentedlist id="packaging-testdeps">
+        <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
+        <seglistitem>
+          <seg>No test suite available</seg>
+        </seglistitem>
+      </segmentedlist>
+
+      <segmentedlist id="packaging-before">
+        <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
+        <seglistitem>
+          <seg>Wheel</seg>
+        </seglistitem>
+      </segmentedlist>
+
+      <segmentedlist id="packaging-optdeps">
+        <segtitle>&external;</segtitle>
+        <seglistitem>
+          <seg>
+            <ulink url='&blfs-book;general/python-modules.html#pytest'>pytest</ulink>
+          </seg>
+        </seglistitem>
+      </segmentedlist>
+
 <!-- Begin Patch dependency info -->
   <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="patch-dep">Patch</bridgehead>
 
@@ -2571,9 +2567,10 @@
         <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
           <seg>Binutils,
-          <phrase revision='systemd'>D-Bus, </phrase>E2fsprogs,
-          IProute2, Kmod, Man-DB, Procps-ng, Python,
-          &systemd-udev;, and Util-linux</seg>
+          <phrase revision='systemd'>D-Bus, </phrase>
+          E2fsprogs, IProute2, Kmod, Man-DB, Procps-ng, Python,
+          &systemd-udev;, 
+          and Util-linux</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -2650,7 +2647,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="psmisc-testdeps">
         <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>No test suite available</seg>
+          <seg>Expect</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -3312,7 +3309,7 @@
       <segmentedlist id="wheel-depends">
         <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>Python and Flit-core</seg>
+          <seg>Python, Flit-core, and packaging</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
 

aux-file-data.sh

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ base=$(basename $bootscripts .tar.xz)
 bootsize=$(ls -l --block-size=1024 $bootscripts | cut -f5 -d" ")
 bootmd5=$(md5sum $bootscripts | cut -f1 -d" ")
 
-# Figure intalled size of bootscripts
+# Figure installed size of bootscripts
 TOPDIR=$(pwd)
 TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/lfsbootfiles.XXXXXX)
 pushd $TMP_DIR > /dev/null

bootscripts/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+2024-08-25 Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
+   * Remove an empty line and an outdated comment (not valid anymore after
+     /usr merge) from init-functions.
+
+2024-08-24 Andrew Kreimer <algonell@gmail.com>
+   * Fix typos.
+
+2024-08-23 Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
+   * In console, detect FB console by checking /sys/class/graphics/fbcon
+     instead of fb0.  The latter does not exist if CONFIG_FB=n, but
+     CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y can support a FB console without
+     CONFIG_FB.
+
 2024-07-12 Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
    * In mountvirtfs, recreate /dev/fd correctly if it's already created
      by the initramfs.

bootscripts/lfs/init.d/console

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ case "${1}" in
       log_info_msg "Setting up Linux console..."
 
       # Figure out if a framebuffer console is used
-      [ -d /sys/class/graphics/fb0 ] && use_fb=1 || use_fb=0
+      [ -d /sys/class/graphics/fbcon ] && use_fb=1 || use_fb=0
 
       # Figure out the command to set the console into the
       # desired mode

bootscripts/lfs/lib/services/init-functions

@@ -457,11 +457,8 @@ pidofproc()
 
     # If a PID file is set and exists, use it.
     if [ -n "${pidfile}" -a -e "${pidfile}" ]; then
-
         # Use the value in the first line of the pidfile
         pidlist=`/bin/head -n1 "${pidfile}"`
-        # This can optionally be written as 'sed 1q' to repalce 'head -n1'
-        # should LFS move /bin/head to /usr/bin/head
     else
         # Use pidof
         pidlist=`pidof "${program}"`

bootscripts/lfs/sbin/ifup.8

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ NOTES
                  compound device such as a bridge.
 
        ONBOOT  - If set to 'yes', the specified interface is
-                 configured by the netowrk boot script.
+                 configured by the network boot script.
 
        GATEWAY - The default IP address to use for routing if
                  the destination IP address is not in a static
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ NOTES
                  This list is normally a single value, e.g. eth0,
                  for use with a virtual host such as kvm.
 
-       Other paramters that are service specific include:
+       Other parameters that are service specific include:
 
        ipv4-static
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ NOTES
                      additional IP addresses to a network
                      device.  Example: eth0:2 (optional)
 
-         BROADCAST - The brodcast address for this interface,
+         BROADCAST - The broadcast address for this interface,
                      e.g 192.168.1.255.  If not specified,
                      the broadcast address will be calculated
                      from the IP and PREFIX.
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ NOTES
          DHCP_START - Optional parameters to pass to the dhcp client
                       at startup.
 
-         DHCP_STOP  - Optional paremeters to pass to the dhcp client
+         DHCP_STOP  - Optional parameters to pass to the dhcp client
                       at shutdown.
 
          PRINTIP    - Flag to print the dhcp address to stdout

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -39,595 +39,371 @@
     <listitem revision="sysv"> or <listitem revision="systemd"> as
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
     -->
-
     <listitem>
-      <para>2024-08-17</para>
+      <para>2025-06-15</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-72.2.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5542'>#5542</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.8.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5743'>#5743</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-33. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5540'>#5540</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.15.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5725'>#5725</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.43.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5543'>#5543</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libffi-3.5.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5741'>#5741</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.10.5. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5541'>#5541</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-6.15.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5732'>#5732</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.13.5. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5743'>#6743</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>2024-08-15</para>
+      <para>2025-06-04</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240806. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ncurses-6.5-20250531. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5737'>#5737</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to pkgconf-2.3.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5537'>#5537</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to readline-8.3-rc2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5738'>#5738</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.12.5. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5538'>#5538</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.3-rc2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5738'>#5738</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.10.4. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5539'>#5539</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.13.4. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5739'>#6739</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>2024-08-05</para>
+      <para>2025-06-01</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.2.32. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5532'>#5532</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240801. Addresses
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20250519. Addresses
           <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.0660. Addresses
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.1418. Addresses
           <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.43. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5535'>#5535</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.8.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5736'>#5736</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.10.3. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5534'>#5534</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to systemd-257.6. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5674'>#5674</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to readline-8.2.13. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5533'>#5533</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-80.9.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5728'>#5728</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to wheel-0.44.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5536'>#5536</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.8.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5731'>#5731</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.18. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5734'>#5734</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update build instructions to accommodate
+          gcc-15 for bc, expect, ncurses, and gmp.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gcc-15.1.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5707'>#5707</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to less-678. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5724'>#5724</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to readline-8.3-rc1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5726'>#5726</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.3-rc1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5714'>#5714</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem> 
+      <para>2025-05-15</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-80.7.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5715'>#5715</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-6.14. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5720'>#5720</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.13.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5719'>#5719</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to m4-1.4.20. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5722'>#5722</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.14.6. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5717'>#5717</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.25. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5718'>#5718</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>2024-08-01</para>
+      <para>2025-05-01</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gcc-14.2.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5530'>#5530</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.1353. Addresses
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240723. Addresses
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-80.0.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5710'>#5710</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to packaging-25.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5706'>#5706</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.8.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5713'>#5713</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.14.4. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5709'>#5709</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20250407. Addresses
           <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.40. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5529'>#5529</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gperf-3.3. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5708'>#5708</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-6.10.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5523'>#5523</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.193. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5711'>#5711</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2025-04-15</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.76. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5704'>#5704</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.10.2. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5521'>#5521</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.40.2 (Security update). Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5703'>#5703</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to lz4-1.10.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5528'>#5526</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Add packaging-24.2 (Python module). Needed for wheel.
+          </para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.5.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5527'>#5527</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.8.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5694'>#5694</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-72.1.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5531'>#5531</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to wheel-0.46.1 (Python Module). Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5693'>#5693</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to sysklogd-2.6.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5522'>#5522</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to sysklogd-2.7.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5690'>#5690</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to systemd-256.4. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5518'>#5518</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Python3-3.13.3. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5697'>#5697</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.5.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5701'>#5701</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.7.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5691'>#5691</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.14.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5680'>#5680</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem revision='sysv'>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-3.10. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5528'>#5528</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libffi-3.4.8. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5700'>#5700</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-6.14.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5682'>#5682</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gzip-1.14. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5699'>#5699</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to grep-3.12. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5702'>#5702</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gperf-3.2.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5695'>#5695</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gawk-5.3.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5692'>#5692</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to diffutils-3.12. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5696'>#5696</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-9.7. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5698'>#5698</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>2024-07-15</para>
+      <para>2025-04-01</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240701. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.0580. Addresses
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.1263. Addresses
           <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.17. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5520'>#5520</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.24. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5515'>#5515</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.9.9. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5517'>#5517</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to less-661. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5513'>#5513</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.5.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5519'>#5519</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-70.3.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5514'>#5514</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.40.2. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5516'>#5516</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-07-01</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update lfs-bootscripts to only output
-          escape sequences to a terminal. </para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-07-01</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240612. Addresses
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20250328. Addresses
           <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to bc-6.7.6. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5506'>#5506</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.8.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5684'>#5684</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-6.9.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5507'>#5507</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.41. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5648'>#5648</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.9.7. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5508'>#5508</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2025b. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5681'>#5681</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem revision='sysv'>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.17.4. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5678'>#5678</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to sysklogd-2.5.2. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5509'>#5509</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-78.1.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5676'>#5676</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.16.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5510'>#5510</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to patch-2.8. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5689'>#5689</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to systemd-256.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5511'>#5511</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to mpfr-4.2.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5677'>#5677</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-70.1.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5512'>#5512</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-34.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5688'>#5688</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.25. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5679'>#5679</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to flit_core-3.12.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5683'>#5683</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.7.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5685'>#5685</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>2024-06-15</para>
+      <para>2025-03-15</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.0478. Addresses
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.1202. Addresses
           <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240607. Addresses
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20250304. Addresses
           <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to systemd-256. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5504'>#5504</ulink>.</para>
+        <listitem revision='sysv'>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to sysklogd-2.7.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5668'>#5668</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.12.4. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5502'>#5502</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-76.0.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5665'>#5665</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.40.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5503'>#5503</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to pkgconf-2.4.3. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5672'>#5672</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.3.1 (Security fix). Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5500'>#5500</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-6.13. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5673'>#5673</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.9.4. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5505'>#5505</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.13.7. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5664'>#5664</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to findutils-4.10.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5499'>#5499</ulink>.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.75. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5667'>#5667</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-34.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5671'>#5671</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to jinja2-3.1.6. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5670'>#5670</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.7.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5675'>#5675</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem revision='systemd'>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to dbus-1.16.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5663'>#5663</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>2024-05-31</para>
+      <para>2025-03-05</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.4.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5498'>#5498</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.6.2. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5471'>#5471</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-           <para>[bdubbs] - Add linux-6.9.x compatibility instructions to 
-           <phrase revision="systemd">systemd</phrase>
-           <phrase revision="sysv">udev</phrase>. 
-           Fixes <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5496'>#5496</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-70.0.0 (python module). Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5491'>#5491</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.12.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5489'>#5489</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-6.8. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5494'>#5494</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.9.3. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5491'>#5491</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.70. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5493'>#5493</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-6.9.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5492'>#5492</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.47.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5495'>#5495</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-05-13</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[xry111] - Synchronize coreutils i18n patch from Fedora
-          to fix a build failure on 32-bit x86 and an alarming compiler
-          warning on both 32-bit x86 and x86_64 with GCC 14.1 or
-          later.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-05-11</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.0405. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.40.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5482'>#5482</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.8.9. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5484'>#5484</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to jinja2-3.1.4 (Python module). Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5485'>#5485</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240502. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gcc-14.1.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5486'>#5486</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-05-01</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Add security fix to glibc. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5481'>#5481</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.8.8. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5480'>#5480</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ncurses-6.5. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5483'>#5483</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-04-16</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Make minor change to ifup script output text.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-04-15</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-69.5.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5478'>#5478</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to python3-3.12.3. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5476'>#5476</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-3.3.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5475'>#5475</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.12.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5477'>#5477</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.12.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5474'>#5474</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.8.6. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5472'>#5472</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240412. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.0330. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-03-31</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240318. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to zstd-1.5.6. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5468'>#5468</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.40. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5430'>#5430</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.15.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5465'>#5465</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to pkgconf-2.2.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5469'>#5469</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.8.2. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5467'>#5467</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to coreutils-9.5. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5470'>#5470</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-03-29</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-           <para>[bdubbs] - Revert to xz-5.4.6 due to upstream 
-           compromise.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem revision='sysv'>
-      <para>2024-03-25</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[timtas] - Update to sysvinit-3.09. Fixes
-          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;5466">#5466</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-03-19</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[renodr] - Update to iproute2-6.8.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;5458">#5458</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[renodr] - Update to man-pages-6.7. Fixes
-          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;5464">#5464</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[renodr] - Update to Linux-6.8.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;5453">#5453</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[renodr] - Added LZ4 to the book. Fixes
-          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;5463">#5463</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-03-15</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to wheel-0.43.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5459'>#5459</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-69.2.0 (Python module). Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5462'>#5462</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to meson-1.4.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5460'>#5460</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.6.2 (Security fix). Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5461'>#5461</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240305. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.0161. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.6.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5457'>#5457</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.15.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5456'>#5456</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-23.7. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5454'>#5454</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to kmod-32. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5455'>#5455</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.191. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5451'>#5451</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-03-02</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20240222. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5006'>#5006</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to vim-9.1.0145. Addresses
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;4500'>#4500</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xz-5.6.0. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5447'>#5447</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to tcl-8.6.14. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5448'>#5448</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to shadow-4.14.6. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5450'>#5450</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to setuptools-69.1.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5446'>#5446</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to linux-6.7.7. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5444'>#5444</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to libffi-3.4.6. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5443'>#5443</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.22.5. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5445'>#5445</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.6.1. Fixes
-          <ulink url='&lfs-ticket-root;5449'>#5449</ulink>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>2024-03-01</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-12.1 released.</para>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - LFS-12.3 released.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>

chapter01/whatsnew.xml

@@ -41,36 +41,33 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>Bash-&bash-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Bc-&bc-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Binutils-&binutils-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Bison-&bison-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Bzip2-&bzip2-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
-      <para>Check-&check-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
     <listitem>
       <para>Coreutils-&coreutils-version;</para>
     </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>DejaGNU-&dejagnu-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem revision="systemd">
+    <listitem revision="systemd">
       <para>D-Bus-&dbus-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
-      <para>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
-    <listitem>
-       <para>E2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</para>
     </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Diffutils-&diffutils-version;</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
+       <para>E2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</para>
+    </listitem>-->
     <listitem>
        <para>Expat-&expat-version;</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -80,18 +77,18 @@
     <!--<listitem>
        <para>File-&file-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Findutils-&findutils-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Flex-&flex-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
-      <para>Flit-core-&flit-core-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Flit-Core-&flit-core-version;</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Gawk-&gawk-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <listitem>
        <para>GCC-&gcc-version;</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -101,27 +98,27 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>Gettext-&gettext-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Glibc-&glibc-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>GMP-&gmp-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Gperf-&gperf-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Grep-&grep-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Groff-&groff-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>GRUB-&grub-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Gzip-&gzip-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Iana-Etc-&iana-etc-version;</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -137,9 +134,9 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>Jinja2-&jinja2-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Kbd-&kbd-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Kmod-&kmod-version;</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -164,15 +161,18 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Libtool-&libtool-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
+    <!--<listitem>
+      <para>Libxcrypt-&libxcrypt-version;</para>
+    </listitem>-->
     <listitem>
       <para>Linux-&linux-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-      <para>Lz4-&lz4-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
-      <para>M4-&m4-version;</para>
+      <para>Lz4-&lz4-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>M4-&m4-version;</para>
+    </listitem>
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Make-&make-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
@@ -191,21 +191,21 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>MPC-&mpc-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>MPFR-&mpfr-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
-    <listitem>
+    </listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
-    <listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Ninja-&ninja-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <listitem>
       <para>OpenSSL-&openssl-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Patch-&patch-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
+    </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>Perl-&perl-version;</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Procps-ng-&procps-ng-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Psmisc-&psmisc-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <listitem>
       <para>Python-&python-version;</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -239,24 +239,24 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>Systemd-&systemd-version;</para>
     </listitem>
-    <listitem revision="sysv">
+    <!--<listitem revision="sysv">
       <para>SysVinit-&sysvinit-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Tar-&tar-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Tcl-&tcl-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <!--<listitem>
+    <listitem>
       <para>Tzdata-&tzdata-version;</para>
-    </listitem>-->
-    <listitem revision="sysv">
-      <para>Udev from Systemd-&systemd-version;</para>
     </listitem>
+    <!--<listitem revision="sysv">
+      <para>Udev from Systemd-&systemd-version;</para>
+    </listitem>-->
     <listitem>
       <para>Util-linux-&util-linux-version;</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -275,9 +275,9 @@
     <!--<listitem>
       <para>Zlib-&zlib-version;</para>
     </listitem>-->
-    <listitem>
+    <!--<listitem>
       <para>Zstd-&zstd-version;</para>
-    </listitem>
+    </listitem>-->
   </itemizedlist>
 
   <!--<itemizedlist>
@@ -291,22 +291,26 @@
 
   <itemizedlist>
     <title>Added:</title>
+    <listitem><para></para></listitem>  <!-- satisfy build -->
+
     <listitem>
-      <para>Lz4-&lz4-version;</para>
+      <para>Packaging-&packaging-version;</para>
     </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>coreutils-9.7-upstream_fix-1.patch</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>perl-5.40.2-upstream_fix-1.patch</para>
+    </listitem>
+
   </itemizedlist>
 
   <itemizedlist>
     <title>Removed:</title>
+    <listitem><para></para></listitem>  <!-- satisfy build -->
     <listitem>
-      <para>bash-5.2.21-upstream_fixes-1.patch</para>
-    </listitem>  
-    <listitem>
-      <para>glibc-2.39-upstream_fix-1.patch</para>
+      <para>Check-0.15.2</para>
     </listitem>
-    <listitem>
-      <para>readline-8.2-upstream_fixes-3.patch</para>
-    </listitem>  
   </itemizedlist>
 
 </sect1>

chapter02/aboutlfs.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-aboutlfs">
   <?dbhtml filename="aboutlfs.html"?>
 
-  <title>Setting The $LFS Variable</title>
+  <title>Setting the $LFS Variable and the Umask</title>
 
   <para>Throughout this book, the environment variable <envar>LFS</envar> will
   be used several times. You should ensure that this variable is always defined
@@ -28,8 +28,24 @@
   <quote>/mnt/lfs</quote> (or whatever value the variable was set to) when it
   processes the command line.</para>
 
+  <para>Now set the file mode creation mask (umask) to
+  <literal>022</literal> in case the host distro uses a different
+  default:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>umask 022</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>Setting the umask to 022 ensures that newly created files and
+  directories are only writable by their owner, but are readable and
+  searchable (only for directories) by anyone (assuming default modes are
+  used by the <ulink role='man' url='&man;open.2'>open(2)</ulink> system
+  call, new files will end up with permission mode 644 and directories with
+  mode 755).  An overly-permissive default can leave security holes in the
+  LFS system, and an overly-restrictive default can cause strange issues
+  building or using the LFS system.</para>
+
   <caution>
-  <para>Do not forget to check that <envar>LFS</envar> is set whenever
+  <para>Do not forget to check that <envar>LFS</envar> is set and the
+  umask is set to <literal>022</literal> whenever
   you leave and reenter the current working environment (such as when doing a
   <command>su</command> to <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> or
   another user). Check that the <envar>LFS</envar> variable is set up
@@ -39,29 +55,40 @@
 
   <para>Make sure the output shows the path to your LFS system's build
   location, which is <filename class="directory">/mnt/lfs</filename> if the
-  provided example was followed. If the output is incorrect, use the command
-  given earlier on this  page to set <envar>$LFS</envar> to the correct
-  directory name.</para>
-  </caution>
+  provided example was followed.</para>
 
-  <note><para>One way to ensure that the <envar>LFS</envar> variable is always
-  set is to edit the <filename>.bash_profile</filename> file in both your
-  personal home directory and in  <filename>/root/.bash_profile</filename> and
-  enter the export command above.  In addition, the shell specified in the
+  <para>Check that the umask is set up properly with:</para>
+
+  <screen role="nodump"><userinput>umask</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>The output may be <computeroutput>0022</computeroutput> or
+  <computeroutput>022</computeroutput> (the number of leading zeros depends
+  on the host distro).</para>
+
+  <para>If any output of these two commands is incorrect, use the command
+  given earlier on this page to set <envar>$LFS</envar> to the correct
+  directory name and set umask to <literal>022</literal>.</para></caution>
+
+  <note><para>One way to ensure that the <envar>LFS</envar> variable and the
+  umask are always set properly is to edit the
+  <filename>.bash_profile</filename> file in both your personal home
+  directory and in  <filename>/root/.bash_profile</filename> and
+  enter the <command>export</command> and <command>umask</command> commands
+  above.  In addition, the shell specified in the
   <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file for all users that need the
   <envar>LFS</envar> variable must be bash to ensure that the
-  <filename>/root/.bash_profile</filename> file is incorporated as a part of
+  <filename>.bash_profile</filename> file is incorporated as a part of
   the login process.</para>
 
   <para>Another consideration is the method that is used to log into the
   host system.  If logging in through a graphical display manager, the
   user's <filename>.bash_profile</filename> is not normally used when
-  a virtual terminal is started.  In this case, add the export command to
+  a virtual terminal is started.  In this case, add the commands to
   the <filename>.bashrc</filename> file for the user and
   <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.  In addition,
   some distributions use an "if" test, and do not run the remaining <filename>.bashrc</filename>
   instructions for a non-interactive bash invocation.  Be sure to place the
-  export command ahead of the test for non-interactive use.</para>
+  commands ahead of the test for non-interactive use.</para>
 
   </note>
 

chapter02/hostreqs.xml

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
       <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>, so the workarounds for
       older kernels are not enabled and the compiled
       <application>glibc</application> is slightly faster and smaller.
-      As at Feb 2024, &min-kernel; is the oldest kernel release still
+      As at Dec 2024, &min-kernel; is the oldest kernel release still
       supported by the kernel developers.  Some kernel releases older than
       &min-kernel; may be still supported by third-party teams, but they
       are not considered official upstream kernel releases; read

chapter02/mounting.xml

@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ mount -v -t ext4 /dev/<replaceable>&lt;yyy&gt;</replaceable> $LFS/home</userinpu
   <replaceable>&lt;yyy&gt;</replaceable> with the appropriate partition
   names.</para>
 
+  <para>Set the owner and permission mode of the
+  <filename class='directory'>$LFS</filename> directory (i.e. the root
+  directory in the newly created file system for the LFS system) to
+  &root; and <literal>755</literal> in case the host distro has been
+  configured to use a different default for <command>mkfs</command>:</para>
+
+<screen role='nodump'><userinput>chown root:root $LFS
+chmod 755 $LFS</userinput></screen>
+
   <para>Ensure that this new partition is not mounted with permissions that are
   too restrictive (such as the <option>nosuid</option> or
   <option>nodev</option> options). Run the <command>mount</command> command

chapter02/stages.xml

@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-        <para>A few operations, from <quote>Changing Ownership</quote> to
+        <para>A few operations, from <quote>Preparing Virtual Kernel File
+        Systems</quote> to
         <quote>Entering the Chroot Environment,</quote> must be done as the
         <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, with the LFS
         environment variable set for the &root; user.</para>

chapter03/introduction.xml

@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@
 
   <para>For some packages, the release tarball and the (Git or SVN)
   repository snapshot tarball for that release may be published with
-  similar file names.  A release tarball contains generated files (for
-  example, a <command>configure</command> script generated by
+  similar or even identical file names.  But the release tarball may contain
+  some files which are essential despite not stored in the repository
+  (for example, a <command>configure</command> script generated by
   <command>autoconf</command>), in addition to the contents of the
   corresponding repository snapshot.  The book uses release tarballs
   whenever possible. Using a repository snapshot instead of a release

chapter03/packages.xml

@@ -110,15 +110,6 @@
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 
-    <varlistentry>
-      <term>Check (&check-version;) - <token>&check-size;</token>:</term>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>Home page: <ulink url="&check-home;"/></para>
-        <para>Download: <ulink url="&check-url;"/></para>
-        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&check-md5;</literal></para>
-      </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
-
     <varlistentry>
       <term>Coreutils (&coreutils-version;) - <token>&coreutils-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>
@@ -597,6 +588,15 @@
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Packaging (&packaging-version;) - <token>&packaging-size;</token>:</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Home page: <ulink url="&packaging-home;"/></para>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&packaging-url;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&packaging-md5;</literal></para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
     <varlistentry>
       <term>Patch (&patch-version;) - <token>&patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>

chapter03/patches.xml

@@ -25,22 +25,21 @@
         <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&autoconf-fixes-patch-md5;</literal></para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
--->
-<!--
+
     <varlistentry>
-      <term>Bash Upstream Fixes Patch - <token>&bash-upstream-fixes-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <term>Bash Cross Compile Fix Patch - <token>&bash-crosscompile-fix-patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>
-        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&bash-upstream-fixes-patch;"/></para>
-        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&bash-upstream-fixes-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&bash-crosscompile-fix-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&bash-crosscompile-fix-patch-md5;</literal></para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 -->
 <!--
     <varlistentry>
-      <term>Binutils LTO Fix Patch - <token>&binutils-lto-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <term>Binutils Upstream Fixes Patch - <token>&binutils-upstream-patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>
-        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&binutils-lto-patch;"/></para>
-        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&binutils-lto-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&binutils-upstream-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&binutils-upstream-patch-md5;</literal></para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 -->
@@ -52,6 +51,14 @@
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Coreutils Upstream Fix Patch - <token>&coreutils-upstream-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-upstream-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&coreutils-upstream-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
     <varlistentry>
       <term>Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - <token>&coreutils-i18n-patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>
@@ -61,10 +68,10 @@
     </varlistentry>
 
     <varlistentry>
-      <term>Expect GCC14 Patch - <token>&expect-gcc14-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <term>Expect GCC15 Patch - <token>&expect-gcc15-patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>
-        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&expect-gcc14-patch;"/></para>
-        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&expect-gcc14-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&expect-gcc15-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&expect-gcc15-patch-md5;</literal></para>
       </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
 
@@ -118,24 +125,25 @@
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 -->
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Perl Upstream Fix Patch - <token>&perl-upstream-fix-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&perl-upstream-fix-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&perl-upstream-fix-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
 <!--
     <varlistentry>
-      <term>Pkgconf Upstream Fix Patch - <token>&pkgconf-upstream-fix-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <term>Python Security Fix Patch - <token>&python-security-fixes-patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>
-        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&pkgconf-upstream-fix-patch;"/></para>
-        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&pkgconf-upstream-fix-patch-md5;</literal></para>
-      </listitem>
-    </varlistentry>
--->
-<!--
-    <varlistentry>
-      <term>Readline Upstream Fix Patch - <token>&readline-fixes-patch-size;</token>:</term>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&readline-fixes-patch;"/></para>
-        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&readline-fixes-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&python-security-fixes-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&python-security-fixes-patch-md5;</literal></para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 -->
+
     <varlistentry revision="sysv">
       <term>SysVinit Consolidated Patch - <token>&sysvinit-consolidated-patch-size;</token>:</term>
       <listitem>

chapter04/aboutsbus.xml

@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
   unit of time.</para>
 
   <para>For example, consider a package whose compilation time is 4.5
-  SBUs. This means that if your system took 10 minutes to compile and
+  SBUs. This means that if your system took 4 minutes to compile and
   install the first pass of binutils, it will take
-  <emphasis>approximately</emphasis> 45 minutes to build the example package.
+  <emphasis>approximately</emphasis> 18 minutes to build the example package.
   Fortunately, most build times are shorter than one SBU.</para>
 
   <para>SBUs are not entirely accurate because they depend on many
@@ -36,6 +36,36 @@
   to give an estimate of how long it might take to install a package, but the
   numbers can vary by as much as dozens of minutes in some cases.</para>
 
+  <para>On some newer systems, the motherboard is capable of controlling 
+  the system clock speed. This can be controlled with a command such as
+  <command>powerprofilesctl</command>. This is not available in LFS, but 
+  may be available on the host distro. After LFS is complete, it can be
+  added to a system with the procedures at the
+  <ulink url='&blfs-book;sysutils/power-profiles-daemon.html'>
+  BLFS power-profiles-daemon</ulink> page.
+
+  Before measuring the build time of any package it is advisable to use a
+  system power profile set for maximum performance (and maximum power 
+  consumption). 
+
+  Otherwise the measured SBU value may be inaccurate because the 
+  system may react differently when building <xref linkend='ch-tools-binutils-pass1'/>
+  or other packages.
+
+  Be aware that a significant inaccuracy can still show up even if the same
+  profile is used for both packages because the system may respond slower if
+  the system is idle when starting the build procedure. Setting the power
+  profile to <quote>performance</quote> will minimize this problem.  And
+  obviously doing so will also make the system build LFS faster.</para>
+
+  <para>If <command>powerprofilesctl</command> is available, issue the
+  <command>powerprofilesctl set performance</command> command to select
+  the <literal>performance</literal> profile.  Some distros provides the
+  <command>tuned-adm</command> command for managing the profiles instead of
+  <command>powerprofilesctl</command>, on these distros issue the
+  <command>tuned-adm profile throughput-performance</command> command to
+  select the <literal>throughput-performance</literal> profile.</para>
+
   <note>
     <para>When multiple processors are used in this way, the SBU units in the
     book will vary even more than they normally would.  In some cases, the make
@@ -44,10 +74,11 @@
     interleaved.  If you run into a problem with a build step, revert to a
     single processor build to properly analyze the error messages.</para>
 
-    <para>The times presented here are based upon using four cores (-j4). The
+    <para>The times presented here for all packages 
+    (except <xref linkend='ch-tools-binutils-pass1'/> which is based on one core)
+    are based upon using four cores (-j4). The
     times in Chapter 8 also include the time to run the regression tests for
     the package unless specified otherwise.</para>
-
   </note>
 
 </sect1>

chapter04/addinguser.xml

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
   the installation process. As <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>,
   issue the following commands to add the new user:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>groupadd lfs
-useradd -s /bin/bash -g lfs -m -k /dev/null lfs</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>groupadd &lfs-groupname;
+useradd -s /bin/bash -g &lfs-groupname; -m -k /dev/null &lfs-username;</userinput></screen>
 
   <variablelist>
     <title>This is what the command line options mean:</title>
@@ -74,15 +74,15 @@ useradd -s /bin/bash -g lfs -m -k /dev/null lfs</userinput></screen>
   have a password), you need to set a password for &lfs-user;.  Issue the
   following command as the &root; user to set the password:</para>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>passwd lfs</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>passwd &lfs-username;</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>Grant <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem> full access to
   all the directories under <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename> by making
   <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem> the owner:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>chown -v lfs $LFS/{usr{,/*},lib,var,etc,bin,sbin,tools}
+<screen><userinput>chown -v &lfs-username; $LFS/{usr{,/*},var,etc,tools}
 case $(uname -m) in
-  x86_64) chown -v lfs $LFS/lib64 ;;
+  x86_64) chown -v &lfs-username; $LFS/lib64 ;;
 esac</userinput></screen>
 
 <note><para>In some host systems, the following <command>su</command> command does not complete
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ esac</userinput></screen>
   logging in as &lfs-user; on a virtual console, or with the following
   substitute/switch user command:</para>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>su - lfs</userinput></screen>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>su - &lfs-username;</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>The <quote><parameter>-</parameter></quote> instructs
   <command>su</command> to start a login shell as opposed to a non-login shell.

chapter04/settingenviron.xml

@@ -76,11 +76,8 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
     <varlistentry>
       <term><parameter>umask 022</parameter></term>
       <listitem>
-  <para>Setting the user file-creation mask (umask) to 022 ensures that newly
-  created files and directories are only writable by their owner, but are
-  readable and executable by anyone (assuming default modes are used by the
-  <ulink role='man' url='&man;open.2'>open(2)</ulink> system call, new files
-  will end up with permission mode 644 and directories with mode 755).</para>
+        <para>Setting the umask as we've already explained in
+        <xref linkend='ch-partitioning-aboutlfs' role='.'/></para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
 

chapter05/binutils-pass1.xml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
 
-<sect1 id="ch-tools-binutils-pass1" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-binutils-pass1" role="wrap" xreflabel="binutils-pass1">
   <?dbhtml filename="binutils-pass1.html"?>
 
   <sect1info condition="script">

chapter05/glibc.xml

@@ -90,10 +90,9 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
       --prefix=/usr                      \
       --host=$LFS_TGT                    \
       --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
-      --enable-kernel=&min-kernel;               \
-      --with-headers=$LFS/usr/include    \
       --disable-nscd                     \
-      libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
+      libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib           \
+      --enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
@@ -116,16 +115,6 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>--with-headers=$LFS/usr/include</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>This tells Glibc to compile itself against the headers
-          recently installed to the $LFS/usr/include directory, so that
-          it knows exactly what features the kernel has and can optimize
-          itself accordingly.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
@@ -187,9 +176,9 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
           packages to define the location where the package should be
           installed. If it is not set, it defaults to the root (<filename
           class="directory">/</filename>) directory. Here we specify that
-          the package is installed in <filename class="directory">$LFS
-          </filename>, which will become the root directory in <xref linkend=
-          "ch-tools-chroot"/>.</para>
+          the package is installed in <filename class="directory">
+          $LFS</filename>, which will become the root directory in <xref linkend=
+          "ch-tools-chroot" role='.'/></para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -200,32 +189,98 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/RTLDLIST=/s@/usr@@g' -i $LFS/usr/bin/ldd</userinput></screen>
 
-    <caution>
-      <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
-      functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
-      expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
+    <para>Now that our cross toolchain is in place, it is important to ensure
+    that compiling and linking will work as expected. We do this by performing
+    some sanity checks:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' | $LFS_TGT-gcc -xc -
-readelf -l a.out | grep ld-linux</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' | $LFS_TGT-gcc -x c - -v -Wl,--verbose &amp;&gt; dummy.log
+readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib'</userinput></screen>
 
-      <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
-      and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
+  <para>There should be no errors,
+  and the output of the last command will be (allowing for
+  platform-specific differences in the dynamic linker name):</para>
 
 <screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
 
-      <para>Note that for 32-bit machines, the interpreter name will be
-      <filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>.</para>
+  <para>Note that this path should not contain
+  <filename class='directory'>/mnt/lfs</filename> (or the value of
+  the <envar>LFS</envar> variable if you used a different one).  The path is
+  resolved when the compiled program is executed, and that should only happen
+  after we enter the chroot environment where the kernel would consider
+  <filename class='directory'>$LFS</filename> as the root directory
+  (<filename class='directory'>/</filename>).</para>
 
-      <para>If the output is not as shown above, or there is no output at all,
-      then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
-      where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
-      continuing.</para>
+  <para>Now make sure that we're set up to use the correct start files:</para>
 
-      <para>Once all is well, clean up the test file:</para>
+<screen><userinput>grep -E -o "$LFS/lib.*/S?crt[1in].*succeeded" dummy.log</userinput></screen>
 
-<screen><userinput>rm -v a.out</userinput></screen>
+  <para>The output of the last command should be:</para>
 
-    </caution>
+<screen><computeroutput>/mnt/lfs/lib/../lib/Scrt1.o succeeded
+/mnt/lfs/lib/../lib/crti.o succeeded
+/mnt/lfs/lib/../lib/crtn.o succeeded</computeroutput></screen>
+
+  <para>Verify that the compiler is searching for the correct header
+  files:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>grep -B3 "^ $LFS/usr/include" dummy.log</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>This command should return the following output:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>#include &lt;...&gt; search starts here:
+ /mnt/lfs/tools/lib/gcc/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/include
+ /mnt/lfs/tools/lib/gcc/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/&gcc-version;/include-fixed
+ /mnt/lfs/usr/include</computeroutput></screen>
+
+   <para>Again, the directory named after your target triplet may be
+   different than the above, depending on your system architecture.</para>
+
+  <para>Next, verify that the new linker is being used with the correct search paths:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log |sed 's|; |\n|g'</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>References to paths that have components with '-linux-gnu' should
+  be ignored, but otherwise the output of the last command should be:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>SEARCH_DIR("=/mnt/lfs/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib64")
+SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/local/lib64")
+SEARCH_DIR("=/lib64")
+SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/lib64")
+SEARCH_DIR("=/mnt/lfs/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib")
+SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/local/lib")
+SEARCH_DIR("=/lib")
+SEARCH_DIR("=/usr/lib");</computeroutput></screen>
+
+   <para>A 32-bit system may use a few other directories, but anyway
+   the important facet here is all the paths should begin with an equal sign
+   (<literal>=</literal>), which would be replaced with the sysroot
+   directory that we've configured for the linker.</para>
+
+  <para>Next make sure that we're using the correct libc:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>grep "/lib.*/libc.so.6 " dummy.log</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>The output of the last command should be:</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>attempt to open /mnt/lfs/usr/lib/libc.so.6 succeeded</computeroutput></screen>
+
+  <para>Make sure GCC is using the correct dynamic linker:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>grep found dummy.log</userinput></screen>
+
+  <para>The output of the last command should be (allowing for
+  platform-specific differences in dynamic linker name):</para>
+
+<screen><computeroutput>found ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 at /mnt/lfs/usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2</computeroutput></screen>
+
+  <para>If the output does not appear as shown above or is not received
+  at all, then something is seriously wrong. Investigate and retrace the
+  steps to find out where the problem is and correct it.  Any
+  issues should be resolved before continuing with the process.</para>
+
+  <para>Once everything is working correctly, clean up the test files:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>rm -v a.out dummy.log</userinput></screen>
 
     <note><para>Building the packages in the next chapter will serve as an
     additional check that the toolchain has been built properly. If some

chapter05/libstdc++.xml

@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Libstdc++ for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">../libstdc++-v3/configure           \
-    --host=$LFS_TGT                 \
-    --build=$(../config.guess)      \
-    --prefix=/usr                   \
-    --disable-multilib              \
-    --disable-nls                   \
-    --disable-libstdcxx-pch         \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">../libstdc++-v3/configure      \
+    --host=$LFS_TGT            \
+    --build=$(../config.guess) \
+    --prefix=/usr              \
+    --disable-multilib         \
+    --disable-nls              \
+    --disable-libstdcxx-pch    \
     --with-gxx-include-dir=/tools/$LFS_TGT/include/c++/&gcc-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>

chapter06/bash.xml

@@ -42,14 +42,17 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Bash</title>
+<!--
+    <para>First, fix a problem related to cross compilation and gcc-15:</para>
 
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-crosscompile-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
+-->
     <para>Prepare Bash for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                      \
             --build=$(sh support/config.guess) \
             --host=$LFS_TGT                    \
-            --without-bash-malloc              \
-            bash_cv_strtold_broken=no</userinput></screen>
+            --without-bash-malloc</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

chapter06/binutils-pass2.xml

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     produced binaries mistakenly linked against libraries from the host
     distro.  Work around this issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '6009s/$add_dir//' -i ltmain.sh</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '6031s/$add_dir//' -i ltmain.sh</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Create a separate build directory again:</para>
 

chapter06/diffutils.xml

@@ -47,8 +47,36 @@
 
     <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr   \
             --host=$LFS_TGT \
+            gl_cv_func_strcasecmp_works=y \
             --build=$(./build-aux/config.guess)</userinput></screen>
 
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <!-- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=d9083a4cc638cf9c7dfc3cc534a7c6b4debf50ab -->
+        <term><parameter>gl_cv_func_strcasecmp_works=y</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This option specify the result of a check for the
+          <function>strcasecmp</function>.  The check requires running a
+          compiled C program, and this is impossible during
+          cross-compilation because in general a cross-compiled program
+          cannot run on the host distro.  Normally for such a check the
+          <command>configure</command> script would use a fall-back value
+          for cross-compilation, but the fall-back value for this check is
+          absent and the <command>configure</command> script would have no
+          value to use and error out.  The upstream has already fixed the
+          issue, but to apply the fix we'd need to run
+          <command>autoconf</command> that the host distro may lack.  So
+          we just specify the check result (<literal>y</literal> as we know
+          the <function>strcasecmp</function> function in
+          Glibc-&glibc-version; works fine) instead, then
+          <command>configure</command> will just use the specified value and
+          skip the check.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

chapter06/gcc-pass2.xml

@@ -83,24 +83,24 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure                                       \
-    --build=$(../config.guess)                     \
-    --host=$LFS_TGT                                \
-    --target=$LFS_TGT                              \
-    LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-L$PWD/$LFS_TGT/libgcc      \
-    --prefix=/usr                                  \
-    --with-build-sysroot=$LFS                      \
-    --enable-default-pie                           \
-    --enable-default-ssp                           \
-    --disable-nls                                  \
-    --disable-multilib                             \
-    --disable-libatomic                            \
-    --disable-libgomp                              \
-    --disable-libquadmath                          \
-    --disable-libsanitizer                         \
-    --disable-libssp                               \
-    --disable-libvtv                               \
-    --enable-languages=c,c++</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure                   \
+    --build=$(../config.guess) \
+    --host=$LFS_TGT            \
+    --target=$LFS_TGT          \
+    --prefix=/usr              \
+    --with-build-sysroot=$LFS  \
+    --enable-default-pie       \
+    --enable-default-ssp       \
+    --disable-nls              \
+    --disable-multilib         \
+    --disable-libatomic        \
+    --disable-libgomp          \
+    --disable-libquadmath      \
+    --disable-libsanitizer     \
+    --disable-libssp           \
+    --disable-libvtv           \
+    --enable-languages=c,c++   \
+    LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-L$PWD/$LFS_TGT/libgcc</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title><!-- WIP -->
@@ -138,10 +138,11 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         <term><parameter>LDFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=...</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>Allow <filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename> to
-          use the shared <filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename> being
-          built in this pass, instead of the static version that was built in GCC
-          pass 1. This is necessary to support C++ exception
-          handling.</para>
+          use the <filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename> being
+          built in this pass, instead of the previous version built in
+          <xref linkend='ch-tools-gcc-pass1'/>.  The previous version cannot
+          properly support C++ exception handling because it was built
+          without libc support.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 

chapter06/make.xml

@@ -45,23 +45,9 @@
     <para>Prepare Make for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr   \
-            --without-guile \
             --host=$LFS_TGT \
             --build=$(build-aux/config.guess)</userinput></screen>
 
-    <variablelist>
-      <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>--without-guile</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Although we are cross-compiling, configure tries to use
-          guile from the build host if it finds it. This makes compilation
-          fail, so this switch prevents using it.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-    </variablelist>
-
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

chapter06/ncurses.xml

@@ -43,18 +43,17 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
 
-    <para>First, ensure that <command>gawk</command> is found first during configuration:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i s/mawk// configure</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Then, run the following commands to build the <quote>tic</quote>
-    program on the build host:</para>
+    <para>First, run the following commands to build the <quote>tic</quote>
+      program on the build host. We install it in
+      <filename class="directory">$LFS/tools</filename>, so that it is found
+      in the <envar>PATH</envar> when needed:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir build
 pushd build
-  ../configure
+  ../configure --prefix=$LFS/tools AWK=gawk
   make -C include
   make -C progs tic
+  install progs/tic $LFS/tools/bin
 popd</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
@@ -69,7 +68,8 @@ popd</userinput></screen>
             --with-cxx-shared            \
             --without-debug              \
             --without-ada                \
-            --disable-stripping</userinput></screen>
+            --disable-stripping          \
+            AWK=gawk</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
@@ -131,21 +131,17 @@ popd</userinput></screen>
           Using host tools on cross-compiled programs can cause failure.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
-<!-- this is the default >= 6.5
+
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>- -enable-widec</parameter></term>
+        <term><parameter>AWK=gawk</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This switch causes wide-character libraries (e.g., <filename
-          class="libraryfile">libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version;</filename>)
-          to be built instead of normal ones (e.g., <filename
-          class="libraryfile">libncurses.so.&ncurses-version;</filename>).
-          These wide-character libraries are usable in both multibyte and
-          traditional 8-bit locales, while normal libraries work properly
-          only in 8-bit locales. Wide-character and normal libraries are
-          source-compatible, but not binary-compatible.</para>
+          <para>This switch prevents the building system from using the
+          <command>mawk</command> program from the host.
+          Some<!-- FIXME vauge --> versions of <command>mawk</command> can
+          cause this package to fail to build.  <!-- It seems happened in 2015,
+          is there any updated into? --></para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
--->
     </variablelist>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -154,28 +150,14 @@ popd</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic install
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS install
 ln -sv libncursesw.so $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so
 sed -e 's/^#if.*XOPEN.*$/#if 1/' \
     -i $LFS/usr/include/curses.h</userinput></screen>
-<!--
-    <para>Remove an unneeded static library not handled by
-    <command>configure</command>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">rm -v $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses++w.a</userinput></screen>
--->
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the install options:</title>
 
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>We need to pass the path of the newly built
-          <command>tic</command> program that runs on the building machine, so
-          the terminal database can be created without errors.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
       <varlistentry>
         <term><command>ln -sv libncursesw.so $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</command></term>
         <listitem>

chapter06/tar.xml

@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                     \
-            --host=$LFS_TGT                   \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr   \
+            --host=$LFS_TGT \
             --build=$(build-aux/config.guess)</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>

chapter07/changingowner.xml

@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
   user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> by running the following
   command:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>chown --from lfs -R root:root $LFS/{usr,lib,var,etc,bin,sbin,tools}
+<screen><userinput>chown --from &lfs-username; -R root:root $LFS/{usr,var,etc,tools}
 case $(uname -m) in
-  x86_64) chown --from lfs -R root:root $LFS/lib64 ;;
+  x86_64) chown --from &lfs-username; -R root:root $LFS/lib64 ;;
 esac</userinput></screen>
 
 </sect1>

chapter07/createfiles.xml

@@ -180,11 +180,11 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
   <systemitem class="groupname">nogroup</systemitem> to avoid an
   unnamed ID.  But other distros may treat this ID differently, so any
   portable program should not depend on this assignment.</para>
-
+<!--
   <para>Some packages need a locale.</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>localedef -i C -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8</userinput></screen>
-
+-->
   <para>Some tests in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> need a regular
   user. We add this user here and delete this account at the end of that
   chapter.</para>

chapter07/python.xml

@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Python for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr   \
-            --enable-shared \
-            --without-ensurepip</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr       \
+            --enable-shared     \
+            --without-ensurepip \
+            --without-static-libpython</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
@@ -74,6 +75,13 @@
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--without-static-libpython</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This switch prevents building a large, but unneeded, static
+          library.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>

chapter08/acl.xml

@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Acl for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr         \
-            --disable-static      \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
+            --disable-static \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/acl-&acl-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -53,10 +53,13 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>The Acl tests must be run on a filesystem that supports access
-    controls, but not until the <application>Coreutils</application> package has been built,
-    using the <application>Acl</application> libraries.  If desired, return to this package
-    and run <command>make check</command> after the <application>Coreutils</application>
-    package has been built.</para>
+    controls.  To test the results, issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>One test named <filename>test/cp.test</filename> is known to
+    fail because <application>Coreutils</application> is not built with
+    the <application>Acl</application> support yet.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter08/bash.xml

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
     <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr             \
             --without-bash-malloc     \
             --with-installed-readline \
-            bash_cv_strtold_broken=no \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/bash-&bash-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>

chapter08/bc.xml

@@ -43,15 +43,15 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Bc for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC=gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr -G -O3 -r</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC='gcc -std=c99' ./configure --prefix=/usr -G -O3 -r</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>CC=gcc</parameter></term>
+        <term><parameter>CC=gcc -std=c99</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This parameter specifies the compiler to use.</para>
+          <para>This parameter specifies the compiler and C standard to use.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 

chapter08/binutils.xml

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr       \
              --sysconfdir=/etc   \
-             --enable-gold       \
              --enable-ld=default \
              --enable-plugins    \
              --enable-shared     \
@@ -64,14 +63,6 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the new configure parameters:</title>
 
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term><parameter>--enable-gold</parameter></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Build the gold linker and install it as ld.gold (alongside the
-          default linker).</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--enable-ld=default</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
@@ -136,19 +127,14 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">grep '^FAIL:' $(find -name '*.log')</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Twelve tests fail in the gold test suite when the
-    <option>--enable-default-pie</option> and
-    <option>--enable-default-ssp</option> options are passed to GCC.</para>
-
- <!--    <para>Three tests in the gprofng suite are also known to fail.</para>-->
-
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make tooldir=/usr install</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Remove useless static libraries:</para>
+    <para>Remove useless static libraries and other files:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">rm -fv /usr/lib/lib{bfd,ctf,ctf-nobfd,gprofng,opcodes,sframe}.a</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">rm -rfv /usr/lib/lib{bfd,ctf,ctf-nobfd,gprofng,opcodes,sframe}.a \
+        /usr/share/doc/gprofng/</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
@@ -161,7 +147,7 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
       <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, dwp, elfedit, gprof, gprofng, ld, ld.bfd, ld.gold, nm,
+        <seg>addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, dwp, elfedit, gprof, gprofng, ld, ld.bfd, nm,
         objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, and strip</seg>
         <seg>libbfd.so, libctf.so, libctf-nobfd.so, libgprofng.so,
         libopcodes.so, and libsframe.so</seg>
@@ -271,17 +257,6 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
-      <varlistentry id="ld.gold">
-        <term><command>ld.gold</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>A cut down version of ld that only supports the
-          elf object file format</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-binutils ld.gold">
-            <primary sortas="b-ld.gold">ld.gold</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
       <varlistentry id="ld.bfd">
         <term><command>ld.bfd</command></term>
         <listitem>

chapter08/bison.xml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results (about 5.5 SBU), issue:</para>
+    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 

chapter08/chapter08.xml

@@ -60,17 +60,17 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="autoconf.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="automake.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="openssl.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="kmod.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libelf.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libffi.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="python.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="flit-core.xml"/>
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="packaging.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="wheel.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="setuptools.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="ninja.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="meson.xml"/>
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="kmod.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="coreutils.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="check.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="diffutils.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="gawk.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="findutils.xml"/>

chapter08/check.xml

@@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
-  %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="ch-system-check" role="wrap">
-  <?dbhtml filename="check.html"?>
-
-  <sect1info condition="script">
-    <productname>check</productname>
-    <productnumber>&check-version;</productnumber>
-    <address>&check-url;</address>
-  </sect1info>
-
-  <title>Check-&check-version;</title>
-
-  <indexterm zone="ch-system-check">
-    <primary sortas="a-Check">Check</primary>
-  </indexterm>
-
-  <sect2 role="package">
-    <title/>
-
-    <para>Check is a unit testing framework for C.</para>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>&check-fin-sbu;</seg>
-        <seg>&check-fin-du;</seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 role="installation">
-    <title>Installation of Check</title>
-
-    <para>Prepare Check for compilation:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Build the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Compilation is now complete.  To run the Check test suite, issue the
-    following command:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-
-<!--    <para>Note that the Check test suite may take a relatively long
-    (up to 4 SBU) time.</para>
--->
-    <para>Install the package:</para>
-
-    <screen><userinput remap="install">make docdir=/usr/share/doc/check-&check-version; install</userinput></screen>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-  <sect2 id="contents-check" role="content">
-    <title>Contents of Check</title>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>checkmk</seg>
-        <seg>libcheck.so</seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-
-    <variablelist>
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
-      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
-      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
-      <varlistentry id="checkmk">
-        <term><command>checkmk</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Awk script for generating C unit tests for use with the Check
-          unit testing framework</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-check checkmk">
-            <primary sortas="b-checmk">checkmk</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libcheck">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcheck.so</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Contains functions that allow Check to be called from a test
-          program</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-check libcheck">
-            <primary sortas="c-libcheck">libcheck</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-    </variablelist>
-
-  </sect2>
-
-</sect1>

chapter08/coreutils.xml

@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
 
+    <para>First, apply a patch for a security problem identified upstream:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-upstream-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>POSIX requires that programs from Coreutils recognize character
     boundaries correctly even in multibyte locales. The following patch fixes
     this non-compliance and other internationalization-related bugs.</para>
@@ -55,20 +59,35 @@
 
     <para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">autoreconf -fiv
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">autoreconf -fv
+automake -af
 FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \
             --prefix=/usr            \
             --enable-no-install-program=kill,uptime</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
-      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+      <title>The meaning of the commands and configure options:</title>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><command>autoreconf</command></term>
+        <term><command>autoreconf -fv</command></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>The patch for internationalization has modified the
           build system, so the configuration files must
-          be regenerated.</para>
+          be regenerated.  Normally we would use the
+          <parameter>-i</parameter> option to update the standard
+          auxiliary files, but for this package it does not work because
+          <filename>configure.ac</filename> specified an old gettext
+          version.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>automake -af</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+	  <para>The automake auxiliary files were not updated by
+	  <command>autoreconf</command> due to the missing
+	  <parameter>-i</parameter> option.  This command updates them
+	  to prevent a build failure.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -134,12 +153,6 @@ FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ./configure \
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">groupdel dummy</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>
-       Two tests, <filename>tests/cp/preserve-mode.sh</filename> and
-       <filename>tests/mv/acl.sh</filename>, are known to
-       fail in the chroot environment, but pass in a complete system.
-    </para>
-
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

chapter08/dbus.xml

@@ -48,41 +48,21 @@
 
     <para>Prepare D-Bus for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                        \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc                    \
-            --localstatedir=/var                 \
-            --runstatedir=/run                   \
-            --enable-user-session                \
-            --disable-static                     \
-            --disable-doxygen-docs               \
-            --disable-xml-docs                   \
-            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-&dbus-version; \
-            --with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir build
+cd    build
+
+meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release --wrap-mode=nofallback ..</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
-      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+      <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term>
-          <parameter>--runstatedir=/run</parameter> and
-          <parameter>--with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket</parameter>
+          <parameter>--wrap-mode=nofallback</parameter>
         </term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>These cause the PID file and the system bus socket
-          to be in <filename class="directory">/run</filename>, instead of
-          the deprecated <filename class="directory">/var/run</filename>.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term>
-          <parameter>--enable-user-session</parameter>
-        </term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>This ensures the D-Bus per-user service and socket unit
-          files are installed for Systemd.  They are not useful (but
-          harmless) in a base LFS installation, however they can be used
-          once systemd is rebuilt with PAM support in BLFS.</para>
+          <para>This switch prevents meson from attempting to download a copy
+          of the Glib package for the tests.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -90,11 +70,11 @@
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">ninja test</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Many tests are disabled because they require additional
     packages that are not included in LFS. Instructions for running the
@@ -103,7 +83,7 @@
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Create a symlink so that D-Bus and systemd can use the same
     <filename>machine-id</filename> file:</para>
@@ -149,7 +129,7 @@
       <varlistentry id="dbus-daemon">
         <term><command>dbus-daemon</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Is the D-Bus message bus daemon</para>
+          <para>is the D-Bus message bus daemon</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-daemon">
             <primary sortas="b-dbus-daemon">dbus-daemon</primary>
           </indexterm>
@@ -159,7 +139,7 @@
       <varlistentry id="dbus-launch">
         <term><command>dbus-launch</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Starts <command>dbus-daemon</command> from a shell
+          <para>starts <command>dbus-daemon</command> from a shell
           script</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-launch">
             <primary sortas="b-dbus-launch">dbus-launch</primary>
@@ -170,7 +150,7 @@
       <varlistentry id="dbus-monitor">
         <term><command>dbus-monitor</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Monitors messages passing through a D-Bus message bus</para>
+          <para>monitors messages passing through a D-Bus message bus</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-monitor">
             <primary sortas="b-dbus-monitor">dbus-monitor</primary>
           </indexterm>
@@ -180,7 +160,7 @@
       <varlistentry id="dbus-run-session">
         <term><command>dbus-run-session</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Starts a session bus instance of <command>dbus-daemon</command>
+          <para>starts a session bus instance of <command>dbus-daemon</command>
           from a shell script and starts a specified program in that
           session</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-run-session">
@@ -192,7 +172,7 @@
       <varlistentry id="dbus-send">
         <term><command>dbus-send</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Sends a message to a D-Bus message bus</para>
+          <para>sends a message to a D-Bus message bus</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-send">
             <primary sortas="b-dbus-send">dbus-send</primary>
           </indexterm>
@@ -202,7 +182,7 @@
       <varlistentry id="dbus-test-tool">
         <term><command>dbus-test-tool</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Is a tool to help packages test
+          <para>is a tool to help packages test
           <application>D-Bus</application></para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-test-tool">
             <primary sortas="b-dbus-test-tool">dbus-test-tool</primary>
@@ -214,7 +194,7 @@
       <varlistentry id="dbus-update-activation-environment">
         <term><command>dbus-update-activation-environment</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Updates environment variables that will be set for
+          <para>updates environment variables that will be set for
           <application>D-Bus</application> session services</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-dbus dbus-update-activation-environment">
             <primary sortas="b-dbus-update-activation-environment">dbus-update-activation-environment</primary>

chapter08/e2fsprogs.xml

@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr           \
-             --sysconfdir=/etc       \
-             --enable-elf-shlibs     \
-             --disable-libblkid      \
-             --disable-libuuid       \
-             --disable-uuidd         \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr       \
+             --sysconfdir=/etc   \
+             --enable-elf-shlibs \
+             --disable-libblkid  \
+             --disable-libuuid   \
+             --disable-uuidd     \
              --disable-fsck</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -93,9 +93,12 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
-    <!-- https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs/issues/134 -->
+    <!-- https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs/issues/134
+         https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs/issues/158 -->
     <para>One test named <filename>m_assume_storage_prezeroed</filename>
-    is known to fail.</para>
+    is known to fail.  Another test named <filename>m_rootdir_acl</filename>
+    is known to fail if the file system used for the LFS system is not
+    <systemitem class='filesystem'>ext4</systemitem>.</para>
 
 <!-- This is a ridiculous amount now! And is it still true?
      Does not appear to be true for version 1.46.3.  Time with tests
@@ -146,7 +149,7 @@ install-info --dir-file=/usr/share/info/dir /usr/share/info/com_err.info</userin
     <para>
       <filename>/etc/mke2fs.conf</filename> contains the default value of
       various command line options of <command>mke2fs</command>.  You may
-      edit the file to make the default values suitable for your need.
+      edit the file to make the default values suitable for your needs.
       For example, some utilities (not in LFS or BLFS) cannot recognize a
       <systemitem class='filesystem'>ext4</systemitem> file system with
       <literal>metadata_csum_seed</literal> feature enabled.

chapter08/expect.xml

@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@
     GDBM, and of course Expect itself) will fail catastrophically, and other
     subtle breakages may also happen.</para>
 
-    <para>Now, make some changes to allow the package with gcc-14.1 or later:</para>
+    <para>Now, make some changes to allow the package with gcc-15.1 or later:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../expect-&expect-version;-gcc14-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&expect-gcc15-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Expect for compilation:</para>
 

chapter08/flex.xml

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results (about 0.5 SBU), issue:</para>
+    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 

chapter08/flit-core.xml

@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@
 
     <para>Build the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="make">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --no-user --find-links dist flit_core</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist flit_core</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the pip3 configuration options and commands:</title>

chapter08/gawk.xml

@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ make install</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>If desired, install the documentation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">mkdir -pv                                   /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version;
-cp    -v doc/{awkforai.txt,*.{eps,pdf,jpg}} /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">install -vDm644 doc/{awkforai.txt,*.{eps,pdf,jpg}} -t /usr/share/doc/gawk-&gawk-version;</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 

chapter08/gcc.xml

@@ -139,10 +139,16 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
       command below, where x is the number of CPU cores on your system.</para>
     </important>
 
-   <para>One set of tests in the GCC test suite is known to exhaust the default
-   stack, so increase the stack size prior to running the tests:</para>
+    <para>GCC may need more stack space compiling some extremely complex
+    code patterns.  As a precaution for the host distros with a tight stack
+    limit, explicitly set the stack size hard limit to infinite.
+    On most host distros (and the final LFS system) the hard limit is
+    infinite by default, but there is no harm done by setting it explicitly.
+    It's not necessary to change the stack size soft limit because GCC will
+    automatically set it to an appropriate value, as long as the value does
+    not exceed the hard limit:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">ulimit -s 32768</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">ulimit -s -H unlimited</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now remove/fix several known test failures:</para>
 
@@ -167,26 +173,15 @@ su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make -k check"</userinput></screen>
     <para>Results can be compared with those located at <ulink
     url="&test-results;"/> and
     <ulink url="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/"/>.</para>
-<!--
-    <para>
-    Eight gcc tests (out of over 185,000):
-    <!- - https://gcc.gnu.org/PR106375 - -><filename>pr56837.c</filename>
-    and seven tests in the <filename class='directory'>analyzer</filename>
-    directory are known to fail.
 
-    <!- - https://gcc.gnu.org/PR109353 - ->
-    One libstdc++ test (out of over 15000), <filename>copy.cc</filename>, is
-    known to fail.
+    <!-- https://github.com/google/sanitizers/issues/1716
+         Affecting any host distro with a large vm.mmap_rnd_bits.
+         The fix is https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/0784b1eefa36
+         but it's not in GCC 14.  TODO retry with
+             sudo sysctl vm.mmap_rnd_bits=32
+         on the host distro when we update to GCC 15.  -->
+    <para>The tsan tests are known to fail on some host distros.</para>
 
-    For g++, 21 tests (out of approximately 250,000): 14
-    <quote>AddressSanitizer*</quote>
-    tests and 7 <filename>interception-malloc-test-1.C</filename> tests, are
-    known to fail.
-
-    Additionally, several tests in the
-    <filename class='directory'>vect</filename> directory are known to fail
-    if the hardware does not support AVX.</para>
--->
     <para>A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. In some cases
     test failures depend on the specific hardware of the system.<!--The GCC developers
     are usually aware of these issues, but have not resolved them yet.-->
@@ -228,8 +223,7 @@ su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make -k check"</userinput></screen>
     that compiling and linking will work as expected. We do this by performing
     some sanity checks:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
-cc dummy.c -v -Wl,--verbose &amp;&gt; dummy.log
+<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' | cc -x c - -v -Wl,--verbose &amp;&gt; dummy.log
 readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib'</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>There should be no errors,
@@ -324,7 +318,7 @@ SEARCH_DIR("/usr/lib");</computeroutput></screen>
 
   <para>Once everything is working correctly, clean up the test files:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out dummy.log</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>rm -v a.out dummy.log</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Finally, move a misplaced file:</para>
 

chapter08/gettext.xml

@@ -42,7 +42,15 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Gettext</title>
+<!--
+    <para>At first, fix an issue causing the package fail to build with
+    libxml-2.12 or later.  The fix is optional for building LFS, but
+    required if rebuilding this package in BLFS with libxml
+    installed:</para>
 
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/^structured/s/xmlError \*/typeof(xmlCtxtGetLastError(NULL)) /' \
+    -i gettext-tools/src/its.c</userinput></screen>
+-->
     <para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
@@ -69,8 +77,7 @@
 
     </variablelist>
 -->
-    <para>To test the results (this takes a long time, around 3 SBUs),
-    issue:</para>
+    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 

chapter08/glibc.xml

@@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr                            \
-             --disable-werror                         \
-             --enable-kernel=&min-kernel;                     \
-             --enable-stack-protector=strong          \
-             --disable-nscd                           \
-             libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr                   \
+             --disable-werror                \
+             --disable-nscd                  \
+             libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib        \
+             --enable-stack-protector=strong \
+             --enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ esac</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>You may see some test failures. The Glibc test suite is
     somewhat dependent on the host system. A few failures out of
-    over 5000 tests can generally be ignored. This is a list of the
+    over 6000 tests can generally be ignored. This is a list of the
     most common issues seen for recent versions of LFS:</para>
 
     <itemizedlist>
@@ -317,6 +317,20 @@ install -vm755 dest/usr/lib/*.so.* /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
         the locales.  Once they are finished, reboot the system
         immediately.
       </para>
+
+      <para>
+        When the system has successfully rebooted, if you are running
+        a LFS system prior to 12.0 (exclusive) where GCC was not built
+        with the <parameter>--disable-fixincludes</parameter> option,
+        move two GCC headers into a better location and
+        remove the stale <quote>fixed</quote> copies of the Glibc headers:
+      </para>
+
+      <screen role='nodump'><userinput>DIR=$(dirname $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name))
+[ -e $DIR/include/limits.h ]    || mv $DIR/include{-fixed,}/limits.h
+[ -e $DIR/include/syslimits.h ] || mv $DIR/include{-fixed,}/syslimits.h
+rm -rfv $DIR/include-fixed/*
+unset DIR</userinput></screen>
     </important>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
@@ -380,7 +394,6 @@ localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
 localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-15 it_IT@euro
 localedef -i it_IT -f UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8
 localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP
-localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true
 localedef -i ja_JP -f UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8
 localedef -i nl_NL@euro -f ISO-8859-15 nl_NL@euro
 localedef -i ru_RU -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
@@ -402,15 +415,6 @@ localedef -i zh_TW -f UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="locale-full">make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Then use the <command>localedef</command> command to create and
-    install locales not listed in the
-    <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
-    when you need them. For instance, the following two locales are
-    needed for some tests later in this chapter:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-full">localedef -i C -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8
-localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true</userinput></screen>
-
     <note><para>Glibc now uses libidn2 when resolving internationalized
     domain names.  This is a run time dependency.  If this capability
     is needed, the instructions for installing libidn2 are in the
@@ -496,7 +500,7 @@ done
 
 cp -v zone.tab zone1970.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO
 zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York
-unset ZONEINFO</userinput></screen>
+unset ZONEINFO tz</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the zic commands:</title>

chapter08/gmp.xml

@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@
            CFLAGS is still automatically set to -march=something.  -->
     </note>
 
+    <para>First, make an adjustment for compatibility with gcc-15 and later:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/long long t1;/,+1s/()/(...)/' configure</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Prepare GMP for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \

chapter08/gperf.xml

@@ -48,11 +48,9 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>The tests are known to fail if running multiple
-    simultaneous tests (-j option greater than 1). To test
-    the results, issue:</para>
+    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make -j1 check</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter08/grub.xml

@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@
 
     <para>Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr          \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc      \
-            --disable-efiemu       \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr     \
+            --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --disable-efiemu  \
             --disable-werror</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@
     the tests depend on packages that are not available in the limited
     LFS environment. To run the tests anyway, run <command>make check</command>.</para>
 
-    <para>Install the package:</para>
+    <para>Install the package, and move the Bash completion support file to
+    the location recommended by the Bash completion maintainers:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install
 mv -v /etc/bash_completion.d/grub /usr/share/bash-completion/completions</userinput></screen>
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ mv -v /etc/bash_completion.d/grub /usr/share/bash-completion/completions</userin
       <varlistentry id="grub-fstest">
         <term><command>grub-fstest</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Is a tool to debug the filesystem driver</para>
+          <para>Is a tool to debug the file system driver</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-grub grub-fstest">
             <primary sortas="b-grub-fstest">grub-fstest</primary>
           </indexterm>

chapter08/inetutils.xml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Inetutils</title>
 
-    <para>First, make the package build with gcc-14.1 or later::</para>
+    <para>First, make the package build with gcc-14.1 or later:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/def HAVE_TERMCAP_TGETENT/ 1/' telnet/telnet.c</userinput></screen>
 

chapter08/iproute2.xml

@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ rm -fv man/man8/arpd.8</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>If desired, install the documentation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">mkdir -pv             /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;
-cp -v COPYING README* /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">install -vDm644 COPYING README* -t /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
@@ -278,7 +277,7 @@ cp -v COPYING README* /usr/share/doc/iproute2-&iproute2-version;</userinput></sc
           discipline</para>
 
           <para><command>tc class</command> allows users to set up classes based
-          on the queuing discipline scheduling</para>
+          on the queueing discipline scheduling</para>
 
           <para><command>tc filter</command> allows users to set up the QoS/CoS
           packet filtering</para>

chapter08/jinja2.xml

@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@
 
     <para>Build the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="make">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --no-user --find-links dist Jinja2</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist Jinja2</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 

chapter08/kbd.xml

@@ -80,9 +80,14 @@ sed -i 's/resizecons.8 //' docs/man/man8/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
-
+    <para>The tests for this package will all fail in the chroot environment 
+    because they require <application>valgrind</application>. In addition
+    on a full system with <application>valgrind</application>, several
+    tests still fail in a graphical environment. The tests pass in 
+    a non-graphical environment.</para>
+<!--
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+-->
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter08/kmod.xml

@@ -43,44 +43,22 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Kmod for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr     \
-            --sysconfdir=/etc \
-            --with-openssl    \
-            --with-xz         \
-            --with-zstd       \
-            --with-zlib       \
-            --disable-manpages</userinput></screen>
+    <screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir -p build
+cd       build
+
+meson setup --prefix=/usr ..    \
+            --buildtype=release \
+            -D manpages=false</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
 
       <varlistentry>
         <term>
-          <parameter>--with-openssl</parameter>
+          <parameter>-D manpages=false</parameter>
         </term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This option enables Kmod to handle PKCS7 signatures for
-          kernel modules.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term>
-          <parameter>--with-xz</parameter>,
-          <parameter>--with-zlib</parameter>, and
-          <parameter>--with-zstd</parameter>
-        </term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>These options enable Kmod to handle compressed kernel modules.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-        <term>
-          <parameter>--disable-manpages</parameter>
-        </term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>This option disables generating the manpages which
+          <para>This option disables generating the man pages which
           requires an external program.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -89,25 +67,15 @@
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>The test suite of this package requires raw kernel headers
     (not the <quote>sanitized</quote> kernel headers installed earlier),
     which are beyond the scope of LFS.</para>
 
-    <para>Install the package and recreate some symlinks for
-    compatibility with Module-Init-Tools (the package that previously handled
-    Linux kernel modules).  The building system will create all these
-    symlinks in <filename class='directory'>/usr/bin</filename>, but we
-    only want <command>lsmod</command> there and all other symlinks in
-    <filename class='directory'>/usr/sbin</filename> instead:</para>
+    <para>Now install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
-
-for target in depmod insmod modinfo modprobe rmmod; do
-  ln -sfv ../bin/kmod /usr/sbin/$target
-  rm -fv /usr/bin/$target
-done</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">ninja install</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 

chapter08/libelf.xml

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Libelf for compilation:</para>
 
-    <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                \
-            --disable-debuginfod         \
+    <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr        \
+            --disable-debuginfod \
             --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>Two tests are known to fail, dwarf_srclang_check and 
+    run-backtrace-native-core.sh.</para>
+
     <para>Install only Libelf:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make -C libelf install

chapter08/libffi.xml

@@ -51,17 +51,20 @@
       <para>Like GMP, Libffi builds with optimizations specific
       to the processor in use. If building for another system, change the
       value of the <parameter>--with-gcc-arch=</parameter> parameter in the
-      following command to an architecture name fully implemented by the
+      following command to an architecture name fully implemented by
+      <emphasis role='bold'>both</emphasis> the host CPU and the
       CPU on that system.
       If this is not done, all applications that link to
       <filename class='libraryfile'>libffi</filename> will trigger
-      Illegal Operation Errors.</para>
+      Illegal Operation Errors.  If you cannot figure out a value
+      safe for both the CPUs, replace the parameter with
+      <option>--without-gcc-arch</option> to produce a generic library.</para>
     </note>
 
     <para>Prepare Libffi for compilation:</para>
 
-    <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr          \
-            --disable-static       \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
+            --disable-static \
             --with-gcc-arch=native</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>

chapter08/libpipeline.xml

@@ -49,9 +49,8 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+    <para>The tests require the <application>Check</application> library
+    that we've removed from LFS.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter08/libtool.xml

@@ -50,15 +50,9 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>To test the results<!--(about 11.0 SBU)-->, issue:</para>
+<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Five tests are known to fail in the LFS build environment due
-    to a circular dependency, but these tests pass if rechecked after
-    automake has been installed.  Additionally, with grep-3.8 or newer,
-    two tests will trigger a warning for non-POSIX regular expressions and
-    fail.</para>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter08/man-pages.xml

@@ -48,7 +48,32 @@
 
     <para>Install Man-pages by running:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make -R GIT=false prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the options:</title>
+
+      <!-- TODO: Try if we can remove this when we update make.  -->
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>-R</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This prevents <command>make</command> from setting any
+          built-in variables.  The building system of man-pages does not
+          work well with built-in variables, but currently there is no way
+          to disable them except passing <parameter>-R</parameter>
+          explicitly via the command line.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>GIT=false</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This prevents the building system from emitting many
+          <computeroutput>git: command not found</computeroutput>
+          warnings lines.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
 
   </sect2>
 

chapter08/markupsafe.xml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --no-user --find-links dist Markupsafe</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist Markupsafe</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 

chapter08/ncurses.xml

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
          make will spawn new shell processes during "make install".  -->
 
     <para>The installation of this package will overwrite
-    <filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version;</filename>
+    <filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw.so.&ncurses-base-version;</filename>
     in-place.  It may crash the shell process which is using code and data
     from the library file.  Install the package with
     <literal>DESTDIR</literal>, and replace the library file correctly using
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@
     <xref linkend='ch-tools-ncurses'/>):</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/dest install
-install -vm755 dest/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version; /usr/lib
-rm -v  dest/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version;
+install -vm755 dest/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.&ncurses-base-version; /usr/lib
+rm -v  dest/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.&ncurses-base-version;
 sed -e 's/^#if.*XOPEN.*$/#if 1/' \
     -i dest/usr/include/curses.h
 cp -av dest/* /</userinput></screen>

chapter08/ninja.xml

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
     <para>Build Ninja with:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">python3 configure.py --bootstrap</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">python3 configure.py --bootstrap --verbose</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the build option:</title>
@@ -80,10 +80,20 @@
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--verbose</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This parameter makes <command>configure.py</command> show
+          the progress building Ninja.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
     </variablelist>
 
     <para>The package tests cannot run in the chroot environment. They require 
-    <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/cmake.html">cmake</ulink>.</para>
+    <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/cmake.html">cmake</ulink>.  But the basic
+    function of this package is already tested by rebuilding itself
+    (with the <parameter>--bootstrap</parameter> option) anyway.</para>
 <!--
     <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 

chapter08/packaging.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-packaging" role="wrap">
+  <?dbhtml filename="packaging.html"?>
+
+  <sect1info condition="script">
+    <productname>packaging</productname>
+    <productnumber>&packaging-version;</productnumber>
+    <address>&packaging-url;</address>
+  </sect1info>
+
+  <title>Packaging-&packaging-version;</title>
+
+  <indexterm zone="ch-system-packaging">
+    <primary sortas="a-packaging">packaging</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <sect2 role="package">
+    <title/>
+
+    <para>
+      The packaging module is a Python library that provides utilities that
+      implement the interoperability specifications which have clearly one
+      correct behaviour (PEP440) or benefit greatly from having a single shared
+      implementation (PEP425). This includes utilities for version handling,
+      specifiers, markers, tags, and requirements.
+    </para>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>&packaging-fin-sbu;</seg>
+        <seg>&packaging-fin-du;</seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="installation">
+    <title>Installation of Packaging</title>
+
+    <para>Compile packaging with the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Install packaging with the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist packaging</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="contents-packaging" role="content">
+    <title>Contents of Packaging</title>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>
+           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/packaging and
+           /usr/lib/python&python-minor;/site-packages/packaging-&packaging-version;.dist-info
+        </seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+

chapter08/perl.xml

@@ -40,12 +40,11 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Perl</title>
-<!--
-    <para>First, apply a patch that fixes an issue highlighted by recent
-    versions of gdbm:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
--->
+    <para>First, apply a security patch identified upstream:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&perl-upstream-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>This version of Perl builds the Compress::Raw::Zlib and
     Compress::Raw::BZip2 modules. By
     default Perl will use an internal copy of the sources for the build.
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ export BUILD_BZIP2=0</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>To test the results (approximately 11 SBU), issue:</para>
+    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">TEST_JOBS=$(nproc) make test_harness</userinput></screen>
 

chapter08/pkgconf.xml

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Pkgconf for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr              \
-            --disable-static           \
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr    \
+            --disable-static \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/pkgconf-&pkgconf-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>

chapter08/pkgmgt.xml

@@ -69,10 +69,25 @@
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem> <para>If a package containing a shared library is updated, and
-      if the name of the library changes, then any packages dynamically
+      if the name of the library<footnote><para>The name of a shared library is
+      the string coded in the <constant>DT_SONAME</constant> entry of its
+      ELF dynamic section.  You can get it with the
+      <command>readelf -d <replaceable>&lt;library file&gt;</replaceable>
+      | grep SONAME</command> command.  In most cases it's suffixed with
+      <literal>.so.<replaceable>&lt;a version
+      number&gt;</replaceable></literal>, but there are some cases where
+      it contains multiple numbers for versioning (like
+      <filename>libbz2.so.1.0</filename>), contains the version number
+      before the <filename class='extension'>.so</filename> suffix (like
+      <filename>libbfd-&binutils-version;</filename>), or does not contain
+      any version number at all (for example
+      <filename>libmemusage.so</filename>).
+      Generally there is no correlation between the package version and the
+      version number(s) in the library name.</para></footnote>
+      changes, then any packages dynamically
       linked to the library must be recompiled, to link against the
-      newer library.  (Note that there is no correlation between the package
-      version and the name of the library.) For example, consider a package
+      newer library.
+      For example, consider a package
       foo-1.2.3 that installs a shared library with the name <filename
       class='libraryfile'>libfoo.so.1</filename>. Suppose you upgrade the package to
       a newer version foo-1.2.4 that installs a shared library with the name
@@ -370,11 +385,13 @@ make DESTDIR=/usr/pkg/libfoo/1.1 install</userinput></screen>
     differences in system hardware and the original kernel
     configuration.</para>
 
-    <note><para>There have been some reports of issues when copying between
-    similar but not identical architectures. For instance, the instruction set
-    for an Intel system is not identical with the AMD processor's instructions, and later
-    versions of some processors may provide instructions that are unavailable with
-    earlier versions.</para></note>
+    <important><para>If you want to deploy the LFS system onto a system
+    with a different CPU, when you build <xref linkend='ch-system-gmp'/> and
+    <xref linkend='ch-system-libffi'/> you must follow the notes about
+    overriding the architecture-specific optimization to produce libraries
+    suitable for both the host system and the system(s) where you'll deploy
+    the LFS system.  Otherwise you'll get <computeroutput>Illegal
+    Instruction</computeroutput> errors running LFS.</para></important>
 
     <para>Finally, the new system has to be made bootable via <xref
     linkend="ch-bootable-grub"/>.</para>

chapter08/procps.xml

@@ -45,12 +45,14 @@
 <screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                           \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version; \
             --disable-static                        \
-            --disable-kill</userinput></screen>
+            --disable-kill                          \
+            --enable-watch8bit</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr                           \
             --docdir=/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version; \
             --disable-static                        \
             --disable-kill                          \
+            --enable-watch8bit                      \
             --with-systemd</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -63,12 +65,20 @@
           command; it will be installed from the Util-linux package.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--enable-watch8bit</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This switch enables the ncursesw support for the
+          <command>watch</command> command, so it can handle 8-bit
+          characters.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
-<screen revision='sysv'><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-<screen revision='systemd'><userinput remap="make">make src_w_LDADD='$(LDADD) -lsystemd'</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
     <!-- To editors: "pmap {X,XX} with unreachable process" tests don't work
          as root.  They may seem to pass due to some Tcl/Expect/DejaGNU
@@ -81,7 +91,8 @@ su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make check"</userinput></screen>
     <para>One test named
     <literal>ps with output flag bsdtime,cputime,etime,etimes</literal>
     is known to fail if the host kernel is not built with
-    <literal>CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT</literal> enabled.</para>
+    <literal>CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT</literal> enabled. In
+    addition, one pgrep test may fail in the chroot environment.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter08/python.xml

@@ -42,13 +42,18 @@
 
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Python 3</title>
+<!--
+    <para>First, apply a security patch to the current package:</para>
 
+    <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&python-security-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
+-->    
     <para>Prepare Python for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr        \
-            --enable-shared      \
-            --with-system-expat  \
-            --enable-optimizations</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr          \
+            --enable-shared        \
+            --with-system-expat    \
+            --enable-optimizations \
+            --without-static-libpython</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
@@ -88,7 +93,8 @@
     limit and 1 SBU (measured when building Binutils pass 1 with one CPU
     core) should be enough.  Some tests are flaky, so the test suite will
     automatically re-run failed tests.  If a test failed but then passed
-    when re-run, it should be considered as passed.</para>
+    when re-run, it should be considered as passed.  One test, test_ssl,
+    is known to fail in the chroot environment.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
@@ -161,21 +167,21 @@ EOF
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html
 
-tar --no-same-owner \
-    -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2
-cp -R --no-preserve=mode python-&python-version;-docs-html/* \
-    /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html</userinput></screen>
+tar --strip-components=1  \
+    --no-same-owner       \
+    --no-same-permissions \
+    -C /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html \
+    -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the documentation install commands:</title>
 
     <varlistentry>
-      <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> (tar) and <option>--no-preserve=mode</option> (cp)</term>
+      <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> and <option>--no-same-permissions</option></term>
       <listitem>
         <para>Ensure the installed files have the correct ownership and
         permissions.  Without these options, <application>tar</application>
-        will install the package files with the upstream creator's values
-        and files would have restrictive permissions.
+        will install the package files with the upstream creator's values.
         </para>
       </listitem>
     </varlistentry>

chapter08/readline.xml

@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-install</userinput></screen>
         <term><parameter>SHLIB_LIBS="-lncursesw"</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>This option forces Readline to link against the
-          <filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw</filename> library.</para>
+          <filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw</filename> library.
+          For details see the <quote>Shared Libraries</quote> section in the
+          package's <filename>README</filename> file.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ sed -i '/{OLDSUFF}/c:' support/shlib-install</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make SHLIB_LIBS="-lncursesw" install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>If desired, install the documentation:</para>
 

chapter08/setuptools.xml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
     <para>Build the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="make">pip3 wheel -w dist --no-cache-dir --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 

chapter08/shadow.xml

@@ -44,18 +44,20 @@
     <important>
       <para>
         If you've installed Linux-PAM, you should follow
-        <ulink url='&blfs-book;postlfs/shadow.xml'>the BLFS shadow
-        page</ulink> instead of this page to build (or, rebuild or upgrade)
-        shadow.
+        <ulink url='&blfs-book;postlfs/shadow.html'>the BLFS
+        instruction</ulink> instead of this page to build (or, rebuild or
+        upgrade) shadow.
       </para>
     </important>
 
     <note>
-      <para>If you would like to enforce the use of strong passwords, refer to
-      <ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/cracklib.html"/> for installing
-      CrackLib prior to building Shadow. Then add
-      <parameter>--with-libcrack</parameter> to the <command>configure</command>
-      command below.</para>
+      <para>If you would like to enforce the use of strong passwords,
+      <ulink url='&blfs-book;postlfs/linux-pam.html'>install and configure
+      Linux-PAM</ulink> first.  Then
+      <ulink url='&blfs-book;postlfs/shadow.html'>install and configure
+      shadow with the PAM support</ulink>.  Finally
+      <ulink url='&blfs-book;postlfs/libpwquality.html'>install
+      libpwquality and configure PAM to use it</ulink>.</para>
     </note>
 
     <para>Disable the installation of the <command>groups</command> program
@@ -81,24 +83,19 @@ find man -name Makefile.in -exec sed -i 's/passwd\.5 / /'   {} \;</userinput></s
     since they are simply symlinks to their counterparts in
     <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>.</para>
 
-    <note>
-      <para>If you wish to include <filename class="directory">/bin</filename>
-      and/or <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename> in the <envar>PATH</envar>
-      for some reason, modify the
-      <envar>PATH</envar> in <filename>.bashrc</filename> after LFS has been
-      built.</para>
-    </note>
+    <warning>
+      <para>Including <filename class="directory">/bin</filename>
+      and/or <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename> in
+      the <envar>PATH</envar> variable may cause some BLFS packages fail to
+      build,<!-- known example: SPIRV-LLVM-Translator --> so don't do that
+      in the <filename>.bashrc</filename> file or anywhere else.</para>
+    </warning>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e 's:#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES:ENCRYPT_METHOD YESCRYPT:' \
     -e 's:/var/spool/mail:/var/mail:'                   \
     -e '/PATH=/{s@/sbin:@@;s@/bin:@@}'                  \
     -i etc/login.defs</userinput></screen>
 
-    <note>
-      <para>If you chose to build Shadow with Cracklib support, issue this command:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed -i 's:DICTPATH.*:DICTPATH\t/lib/cracklib/pw_dict:' etc/login.defs</userinput></screen>
-    </note>
 <!--
     <para>Make a minor change to make the first group number generated
     by useradd 1000:</para>

chapter08/stripping.xml

@@ -24,16 +24,20 @@
   backup of the LFS system in its current state.</para>
 
   <para>A <command>strip</command> command with the
-  <parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> option removes all debug symbols
-  from a binary or library.  It also removes all symbol table entries not
+  <parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> option removes all debug symbols from
+  a binary or library.  It also removes all symbol table entries not normally
   needed by the linker (for static libraries) or dynamic linker (for
-  dynamically linked binaries and shared libraries).</para>
+  dynamically linked binaries and shared libraries). Using
+  <parameter>--strip-debug</parameter> does not remove symbol table entries
+  that may be needed by some applications.  The difference between
+  <literal>unneeded</literal> and <literal>debug</literal> is very small.
+  For example, an unstripped <filename class='libraryfile'>libc.a</filename>
+  is 22.4 MB. After stripping with <parameter>--strip-debug</parameter> it
+  is 5.9 MB. Using <parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> only reduces the
+  size further to 5.8 MB.</para>
 
-  <!-- TODO: Zstd is better than Zlib for both speed and size.
-             Unfortunately Valgrind does not support Zstd-compressed debug
-             info yet: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469782 -->
   <para>The debugging symbols from selected libraries are compressed with
-  <application>Zlib</application> and preserved in separate files.  That
+  <application>Zstd</application> and preserved in separate files.  That
   debugging information is needed to run regression tests with <ulink
   url='&blfs-book;/general/valgrind.html'>valgrind</ulink> or <ulink
   url='&blfs-book;/general/gdb.html'>gdb</ulink> later, in BLFS.
@@ -81,9 +85,9 @@
 cd /usr/lib
 
 for LIB in $save_usrlib; do
-    objcopy --only-keep-debug --compress-debug-sections=zlib $LIB $LIB.dbg
+    objcopy --only-keep-debug --compress-debug-sections=zstd $LIB $LIB.dbg
     cp $LIB /tmp/$LIB
-    strip --strip-unneeded /tmp/$LIB
+    strip --strip-debug /tmp/$LIB
     objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$LIB.dbg /tmp/$LIB
     install -vm755 /tmp/$LIB /usr/lib
     rm /tmp/$LIB
@@ -102,14 +106,14 @@ online_usrlib="libbfd-&binutils-version;.so
 
 for BIN in $online_usrbin; do
     cp /usr/bin/$BIN /tmp/$BIN
-    strip --strip-unneeded /tmp/$BIN
+    strip --strip-debug /tmp/$BIN
     install -vm755 /tmp/$BIN /usr/bin
     rm /tmp/$BIN
 done
 
 for LIB in $online_usrlib; do
     cp /usr/lib/$LIB /tmp/$LIB
-    strip --strip-unneeded /tmp/$LIB
+    strip --strip-debug /tmp/$LIB
     install -vm755 /tmp/$LIB /usr/lib
     rm /tmp/$LIB
 done
@@ -120,7 +124,7 @@ for i in $(find /usr/lib -type f -name \*.so* ! -name \*dbg) \
     case "$online_usrbin $online_usrlib $save_usrlib" in
         *$(basename $i)* )
             ;;
-        * ) strip --strip-unneeded $i
+        * ) strip --strip-debug $i
             ;;
     esac
 done

chapter08/sysklogd.xml

@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr      \
             --sysconfdir=/etc  \
             --runstatedir=/run \
-            --without-logger</userinput></screen>
+            --without-logger   \
+            --disable-static   \
+            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
@@ -86,6 +88,9 @@ mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
 user.* -/var/log/user.log
 *.emerg *
 
+# Do not open any internet ports.
+secure_mode 2
+
 # End /etc/syslog.conf</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 

chapter08/systemd.xml

@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@
     <systemitem class="groupname">sgx</systemitem>, from the default udev
     rules:</para>
 
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
-       -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //' rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
+ <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
+    -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //'               \
+    -i rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare systemd for compilation:</para>
 
@@ -227,7 +228,11 @@ ninja test</userinput></screen>
          after initializing the system with systemd.  -->
     <para>One test named <literal>systemd:core / test-namespace</literal>
     is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.  Some other tests may
-    fail because they depend on various kernel configuration options.</para>
+    fail because they depend on various kernel configuration options.
+    The test named <literal>systemd:test / test-copy</literal> may time out
+    due to an I/O congestion with a large parallel job number, but it
+    would pass if running alone with
+    <command>meson test test-copy</command>.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
@@ -238,7 +243,7 @@ ninja test</userinput></screen>
     <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
          component in the path.  -->
 <screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-man-version;.tar.xz \
-    --no-same-owner --strip-components=1   \
+    --no-same-owner --strip-components=1     \
     -C /usr/share/man</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Create the <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file needed by

chapter08/tcl.xml

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
   %general-entities;
-  <!ENTITY tdbc-ver          "1.1.7">
-  <!ENTITY itcl-ver          "4.2.4">
+  <!ENTITY tdbc-ver          "1.1.10">
+  <!ENTITY itcl-ver          "4.3.2">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="ch-system-tcl" role="wrap">
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ sed -e "s|$SRCDIR/unix|/usr/lib|" \
     -i tclConfig.sh
 
 sed -e "s|$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;|/usr/lib/tdbc&tdbc-ver;|" \
-    -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/generic|/usr/include|"    \
-    -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/library|/usr/lib/tcl8.6|" \
-    -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;|/usr/include|"            \
+    -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/generic|/usr/include|"     \
+    -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/library|/usr/lib/tcl8.6|"  \
+    -e "s|$SRCDIR/pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;|/usr/include|"             \
     -i pkgs/tdbc&tdbc-ver;/tdbcConfig.sh
 
 sed -e "s|$SRCDIR/unix/pkgs/itcl&itcl-ver;|/usr/lib/itcl&itcl-ver;|" \

chapter08/udev.xml

@@ -48,17 +48,19 @@
     <systemitem class="groupname">sgx</systemitem>, from the default udev
     rules:</para>
 
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
-       -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //' rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
+ <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
+    -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //'               \
+    -i rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Remove one udev rule requiring a full Systemd installation:</para>
 
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/systemd-sysctl/s/^/#/' -i rules.d/99-systemd.rules.in</userinput></screen>
+ <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/systemd-sysctl/s/^/#/' rules.d/99-systemd.rules.in</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Adjust the hardcoded paths to network configuration files for the
     standalone udev installation:</para>
 
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/NETWORK_DIRS/s/systemd/udev/' -i src/basic/path-lookup.h</userinput></screen>
+ <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/NETWORK_DIRS/s/systemd/udev/' \
+    -i src/libsystemd/sd-network/network-util.h</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Udev for compilation:</para>
 

chapter08/util-linux.xml

@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen>
        enabled.
     </para>
 
+    <para>
+      Two other tests, lsfd: SOURCE column and utmp: last, are known to
+      fail in the chroot environment.
+    </para>
+
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

chapter08/vim.xml

@@ -64,9 +64,11 @@
 
     <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that user
     <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> can write
-    to the source tree:</para>
+    to the source tree and exclude one file containing tests requiring
+    <command>curl</command> or <command>wget</command>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester .</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester .
+sed '/test_plugin_glvs/d' -i src/testdir/Make_all.mak</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now run the tests as user <systemitem
     class="username">tester</systemitem>:</para>

chapter08/wheel.xml

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
     <para>Install Wheel with the following command:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links=dist wheel</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist wheel</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 

chapter09/network.xml

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
      <para>x can be any number in the range 16-31. y can be any number in the
      range 0-255.</para>
 
-     <para>A valid private IP address could be 192.168.1.1.</para>
+     <para>A valid private IP address could be 192.168.1.2.</para>
 
      <para>If the computer is to be visible to the Internet, a valid FQDN
      can be the domain name itself, or a string resulted by concatenating a
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 
 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
 127.0.1.1 <replaceable>&lt;FQDN&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME&gt;</replaceable>
-<replaceable>&lt;192.168.1.1&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;FQDN&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>[alias1] [alias2 ...]</replaceable>
+<replaceable>&lt;192.168.1.2&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;FQDN&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME&gt;</replaceable> <replaceable>[alias1] [alias2 ...]</replaceable>
 ::1       localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
 ff02::1   ip6-allnodes
 ff02::2   ip6-allrouters
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ ff02::2   ip6-allrouters
 # End /etc/hosts</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-     <para>The <replaceable>&lt;192.168.1.1&gt;</replaceable>,
+     <para>The <replaceable>&lt;192.168.1.2&gt;</replaceable>,
      <replaceable>&lt;FQDN&gt;</replaceable>, and
      <replaceable>&lt;HOSTNAME&gt;</replaceable> values need to be
      changed for specific uses or requirements (if assigned an IP address by a

chapter09/systemd-custom.xml

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen role="nodump">q /tmp 1777 root root 10d</screen>
 
-      The type field, q, discusses creating a subvolume with quotas which
+      The type field, q, indicates the creation of a subvolume with quotas which
       is really only applicable to btrfs filesystems.  It references type v
       which in turn references type d (directory). This then creates the
       specified directory if it is not present and adjusts the permissions

chapter10/fstab.xml

@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
   <quote>Default iocharset for FAT</quote> (<option>CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET</option>).
   There is no way to specify these settings for the
   ntfs filesystem at kernel compilation time.</para>
+<!--
+  Obsolete since 2011.  barrier is the default for both ext3 and ext4.
 
   <para>It is possible to make the ext3 filesystem reliable across power
   failures for some hard disk types.  To do this, add the
@@ -123,5 +125,5 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>Note: Logical Volume Management (LVM) based partitions cannot use the
   <option>barrier</option> option.</para>
-
+-->
 </sect1>

chapter10/grub.xml

@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ set timeout=5
 insmod part_gpt
 insmod ext2
 set root=(hd0,2)
+set gfxpayload=1024x768x32
 
 menuentry "GNU/Linux, Linux &linux-version;-lfs-&version;" {
         linux   /boot/vmlinuz-&linux-version;-lfs-&version; root=/dev/sda2 ro
@@ -159,6 +160,14 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
       be needed with some rare configurations.
     </para>
 
+    <para>
+      The <command>set gfxpayload=1024x768x32</command> command sets the
+      resolution and color depth of the VESA framebuffer to be passed to the
+      kernel.  It's necessary for the kernel SimpleDRM driver to use the
+      VESA framebuffer.  You can use a different resolution or color depth
+      value which better suits for your monitor.
+    </para>
+
     <note><para>From <application>GRUB</application>'s perspective, the
     kernel files are relative to the partition used.  If you
     used a separate /boot partition, remove /boot from the above

chapter10/kernel.xml

@@ -272,6 +272,71 @@
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>
+          <parameter>
+            Display a user-friendly message when a kernel panic occurs
+          </parameter>
+        </term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This will make the kernel correctly display the message
+          in case a kernel panic happens and a running DRM driver
+          supports to do so.  Without this, it would be more
+          difficult to diagnose a panic: if no DRM driver is running,
+          we'd be on the VGA console which can only hold 24 lines and
+          the relevant kernel message is often flushed away; if a DRM
+          driver is running, the display is often completely messed up
+          on panic.  As of Linux-6.12, none of the dedicated drivers for
+          mainstream GPU models really supports this, but it's supported by
+          the <quote>Simple framebuffer driver</quote> which runs on the
+          VESA (or EFI) framebuffer before the dedicated GPU driver is
+          loaded.  If the dedicated GPU driver is built as a module
+          (instead of a part of the kernel image) and no initramfs is
+          used, this functionality will work just fine before the root
+          file system is mounted and it's already enough for providing
+          information about most LFS configuration errors causing a
+          panic (for example, an incorrect <parameter>root=</parameter>
+          setting in <xref linkend='ch-bootable-grub'/>).</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>
+          <parameter>
+            Panic screen formatter
+          </parameter>
+        </term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Set this <literal>kmsg</literal> to make sure the last
+          kernel messages lines are displayed when a kernel panic happens.
+          The default, <literal>user</literal>, would make the kernel show
+          only a <quote>user friendly</quote> panic message which is not
+          helpful on diagnostic.  The third choice,
+          <literal>qr_code</literal>, would make the kernel to compress
+          the last kernel message lines into a QR code and display it.
+          The QR code can hold more message lines than plain text and it
+          can be decoded with an external device (like a smart phone).
+          But it requires a Rust compiler that LFS does not provide.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term>
+          <parameter>
+            Mark VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer
+          </parameter> and
+          <parameter>Simple framebuffer driver</parameter>
+        </term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>These allow to use the VESA framebuffer (or the EFI
+          framebuffer if booting the LFS system via UEFI) as a DRM device.
+          The VESA framebuffer will be set up by GRUB (or the EFI
+          framebuffer will be set up by the UEFI firmware), so the DRM panic
+          handler can function before the GPU-specific DRM driver is
+          loaded.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry>
         <term>
           <parameter>
@@ -282,8 +347,8 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>These are needed to display the Linux console on a
           GPU driven by a DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) driver.
-          If <option>CONFIG_DRM</option> (Direct Rendering Manager) is
-          enabled, you should enable these two options as well or you'll see
+          As <option>CONFIG_DRM</option> (Direct Rendering Manager) is
+          enabled, we should enable these two options as well or we'll see
           a blank screen once the DRI driver is loaded.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -339,7 +404,7 @@
     <caution>
       <para>If you've decided to use a separate &boot-dir; partition for the
       LFS system (maybe sharing a &boot-dir; partition with the host
-      distro) , the files copied below should go there. The easiest way to
+      distro), the files copied below should go there. The easiest way to
       do that is to create the entry for &boot-dir; in &fstab; first (read
       the previous section for details), then issue the following command
       as the &root; user in the
@@ -401,6 +466,26 @@
       <command>chown -R 0:0</command> on the <filename
       class="directory">linux-&linux-version;</filename> directory to ensure
       all files are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
+
+      <para>If you are updating the configuration and rebuilding the kernel
+      from a retained kernel source tree, normally you should
+      <emphasis role='bold'>not</emphasis> run the
+      <command>make mrproper</command> command.  The command would purge
+      the <filename>.config</filename> file and all the
+      <filename class='extension'>.o</filename> files from the previous
+      build.  Despite it's easy to restore <filename>.config</filename> from
+      the copy in <filename class='directory'>/boot</filename>, purging all
+      the <filename class='extension'>.o</filename> files is still a waste:
+      for a simple configuration change, often only a few
+      <filename class='extension'>.o</filename> files need to be (re)built
+      and the kernel build system will correctly skip other
+      <filename class='extension'>.o</filename> files if they are not
+      purged.</para>
+
+      <para>On the other hand, if you've upgraded GCC, you should run
+      <command>make clean</command> to purge all the
+      <filename class='extension'>.o</filename> files from the previous
+      build, or the new build may fail.</para>
     </note>
 
     <warning>
@@ -412,17 +497,6 @@
       complete.</para>
     </warning>
 
-    <warning>
-      <para>The headers in the system's <filename
-      class="directory">include</filename> directory (<filename
-      class="directory">/usr/include</filename>) should
-      <emphasis>always</emphasis> be the ones against which Glibc was compiled,
-      that is, the sanitised headers installed in <xref
-      linkend="ch-tools-linux-headers"/>.  Therefore, they should
-      <emphasis>never</emphasis> be replaced by either the raw kernel headers
-      or any other kernel sanitized headers.</para>
-    </warning>
-
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 id="conf-modprobe" role="configuration">

chapter10/kernel/kernel.version

@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.10.2
+6.13.1

chapter10/kernel/systemd.toml

@@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG='*'
 UEVENT_HELPER=' '
 DEVTMPFS='*'
 DEVTMPFS_MOUNT='*'
-DRM=' *M'
+SYSFB_SIMPLEFB='*'
+DRM='*'
+DRM_PANIC='*'
+DRM_PANIC_SCREEN='kmsg'
+DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION='*'
+DRM_SIMPLEDRM='*'
+FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE='*'
 NET='*'
 INET='*'
 IPV6='*'
@@ -30,11 +36,3 @@ revision='systemd'
 [RT_GROUP_SCHED]
 value = ' '
 comment = 'This may cause some systemd features malfunction'
-
-[DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION]
-value = ' *'
-comment = 'If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected'
-
-[FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE]
-value = ' *'
-comment = 'If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected'

chapter10/kernel/systemd.xml

@@ -42,15 +42,19 @@
                                                     ...  [FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER]
   <emphasis role='blue'>F</emphasis>irmware Drivers ---&gt;
     [*] <emphasis role='blue'>E</emphasis>xport DMI identification via sysfs to userspace                 [DMIID]
+    [*] M<emphasis role='blue'>a</emphasis>rk VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer       [SYSFB_SIMPLEFB]
   <emphasis role='blue'>G</emphasis>raphics support ---&gt;
-    &lt; /*/M&gt; <emphasis role='blue'>D</emphasis>irect Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---&gt;
+    &lt;*&gt; <emphasis role='blue'>D</emphasis>irect Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---&gt;
                                                                       ...  [DRM]
-      # If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected:
-      [ /*] <emphasis role='blue'>E</emphasis>nable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver
+      [*]    <emphasis role='blue'>D</emphasis>isplay a user-friendly message when a kernel panic occurs
+                                                                ...  [DRM_PANIC]
+      (kmsg)   <emphasis role='blue'>P</emphasis>anic screen formatter                         [DRM_PANIC_SCREEN]
+      <emphasis role='blue'>S</emphasis>upported DRM clients ---&gt;
+        [*] <emphasis role='blue'>E</emphasis>nable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver
                                                       ...  [DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION]
+      &lt;*&gt;    <emphasis role='blue'>S</emphasis>imple framebuffer driver                           [DRM_SIMPLEDRM]
     <emphasis role='blue'>C</emphasis>onsole display driver support ---&gt;
-      # If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected:
-      [ /*] <emphasis role='blue'>F</emphasis>ramebuffer Console support                    [FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE]
+      [*] <emphasis role='blue'>F</emphasis>ramebuffer Console support                      [FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE]
 
 <emphasis role='blue'>F</emphasis>ile systems ---&gt;
   [*] <emphasis role='blue'>I</emphasis>notify support for userspace                               [INOTIFY_USER]

chapter10/kernel/sysv.toml

@@ -12,14 +12,12 @@ STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG='*'
 UEVENT_HELPER=' '
 DEVTMPFS='*'
 DEVTMPFS_MOUNT='*'
-DRM=' *M'
+SYSFB_SIMPLEFB='*'
+DRM='*'
+DRM_PANIC='*'
+DRM_PANIC_SCREEN='kmsg'
+DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION='*'
+DRM_SIMPLEDRM='*'
+FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE='*'
 
 revision='sysv'
-
-[DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION]
-value = ' *'
-comment = 'If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected'
-
-[FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE]
-value = ' *'
-comment = 'If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected'

chapter10/kernel/sysv.xml

@@ -28,12 +28,17 @@
     [*] M<emphasis role='blue'>a</emphasis>intain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev               [DEVTMPFS]
     [*]   <emphasis role='blue'>A</emphasis>utomount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs
                                                            ...  [DEVTMPFS_MOUNT]
+  <emphasis role='blue'>F</emphasis>irmware Drivers ---&gt;
+    [*] M<emphasis role='blue'>a</emphasis>rk VGA/VBE/EFI FB as generic system framebuffer       [SYSFB_SIMPLEFB]
   <emphasis role='blue'>G</emphasis>raphics support ---&gt;
-    &lt; /*/M&gt; <emphasis role='blue'>D</emphasis>irect Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---&gt;
+    &lt;*&gt; <emphasis role='blue'>D</emphasis>irect Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---&gt;
                                                                       ...  [DRM]
-      # If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected:
-      [ /*] <emphasis role='blue'>E</emphasis>nable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver
+      [*]    <emphasis role='blue'>D</emphasis>isplay a user-friendly message when a kernel panic occurs
+                                                                ...  [DRM_PANIC]
+      (kmsg)   <emphasis role='blue'>P</emphasis>anic screen formatter                         [DRM_PANIC_SCREEN]
+      <emphasis role='blue'>S</emphasis>upported DRM clients ---&gt;
+        [*] <emphasis role='blue'>E</emphasis>nable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver
                                                       ...  [DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION]
+      &lt;*&gt;    <emphasis role='blue'>S</emphasis>imple framebuffer driver                           [DRM_SIMPLEDRM]
     <emphasis role='blue'>C</emphasis>onsole display driver support ---&gt;
-      # If [DRM] is selected as * or M, this must be selected:
-      [ /*] <emphasis role='blue'>F</emphasis>ramebuffer Console support                    [FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE]</screen>
+      [*] <emphasis role='blue'>F</emphasis>ramebuffer Console support                      [FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE]</screen>

chapter11/afterlfs.xml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
      <para>
         In addition to the above, there is a set of applications for system
         management for all kinds of systems. These applications are all in the
-        BLFS book. Not all packages are needed in every environments. For
+        BLFS book. Not all packages are needed in every environment. For
         example <ulink url="&blfs-book;basicnet/dhcpcd.html">dhcpcd</ulink>, is
         not normally appropriate for a server and <ulink
         url="&blfs-book;basicnet/wireless_tools.html">wireless_tools</ulink>,
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ EOF</command></screen>
     </para>
 
 <screen><command>alias lfs='sudo /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/lfs /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1="\u:\w\\\\$ "
-PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin /bin/bash --login'</command></screen>
+PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin /bin/bash --login'</command></screen>
 
      <para>
        This alias is a little tricky because of the quoting and levels of

chapter11/reboot.xml

@@ -88,17 +88,14 @@
       </para>
 
       <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem><para>/etc/bashrc                  </para></listitem>
-        <listitem><para>/etc/dircolors               </para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>/etc/fstab                   </para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>/etc/hosts                   </para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>/etc/inputrc                 </para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>/etc/profile                 </para></listitem>
-        <listitem><para>/etc/resolv.conf             </para></listitem>
+        <listitem><para>/etc/resolv.conf
+          <phrase revision='systemd'>(optional)</phrase></para></listitem>
         <listitem><para>/etc/vimrc                   </para></listitem>
-        <listitem><para>/root/.bash_profile          </para></listitem>
-        <listitem><para>/root/.bashrc                </para></listitem>
-        <listitem revision="sysv"><para>/etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 </para></listitem>
+        <listitem revision="sysv"><para>/etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0</para></listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>

chapter11/theend.xml

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ ID=lfs
 PRETTY_NAME="Linux From Scratch &version;"
 VERSION_CODENAME="<your name here>"
 HOME_URL="&lfs-root;lfs/"
+RELEASE_TYPE="&os-release-type;"
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>Be sure to customize the fields 'DISTRIB_CODENAME' and

gen-changelog.py

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ rem = rem.symmetric_difference(upd)
 
 ticket = {}
 security = set()
-url = 'https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/report/1?format=tab'
+url = 'https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/query?status=!closed&order=priority&format=tab'
 tsv = urlopen(url)
 for i in tsv:
     fields = i.decode().split('\t')

general.ent

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 <!ENTITY % rc          "IGNORE"> <!-- set to INCLUDE for rc,
                                       set to IGNORE for development or
                                        release -->
-<!ENTITY % relnum "11.3"><!-- must be given for release or rc -->
-<!ENTITY % reldate "March 1st, 2023"><!-- must ve given for release or rc -->
-<!ENTITY % crdate "1999-2022"><!-- must ve given for release or rc -->
+<!ENTITY % relnum "12.3"><!-- must be given for release or rc -->
+<!ENTITY % reldate "March 5th, 2025"><!-- must ve given for release or rc -->
+<!ENTITY % crdate "1999-2025"><!-- must ve given for release or rc -->
 <!ENTITY % rcnum  "0"><!-- must be given only for rc -->
 <!-- ================================================================== -->
 <!-- Do not change anything below unless the www or book layouts change -->
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
                                              &patches-root;,
                                              &donwloads-root;, and
                                              &test-results; -->
+<!ENTITY os-release-type "development"> <!-- used by /etc/os-release -->
 ]]><!-- End %development -->
 
 <![ %release; [
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@
 ]]>
 <![ %systemd; [
 <!ENTITY version         "%relnum;-systemd">
-<!ENTITY short-version   "stable-systemd"> <!-- Used below in &blfs-book; -->
+<!ENTITY short-version   "%relnum;-systemd"> <!-- Used below in &blfs-book; -->
 ]]>
 <!ENTITY errata          "&lfs-root;lfs/errata/&version;/">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "%relnum;"> <!-- Used below in
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@
                                           &test-results; -->
 <!ENTITY releasedate     "%reldate;">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "%crdate;">
+<!ENTITY os-release-type "stable"> <!-- used by /etc/os-release -->
 ]]>
 
 <![ %rc; [
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@
                                                     &test-results; -->
 <!ENTITY releasedate     "%reldate;">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "%crdate;">
+<!ENTITY os-release-type "development"> <!-- used by /etc/os-release -->
 ]]>
 
 <![ %sysv; [
@@ -92,9 +95,9 @@
 <!ENTITY test-results    "&lfs-root;lfs/build-logs/&generic-version;/">
 <!ENTITY secadv          "&lfs-root;lfs/advisories/">
 
-<!-- 4.19 EOL is Dec 2024
-     so for LFS 12.3 we may consider moving to 5.4 -->
-<!ENTITY min-kernel      "4.19">
+<!-- 5.4 EOL is Dec 2025
+	 so for LFS 12.5 we may consider moving to 5.10. -->
+<!ENTITY min-kernel      "5.4">
 
 <!--
 <!ENTITY patches-rootd   "&lfs-root;patches/lfs/&generic-versiond;/">
@@ -129,6 +132,8 @@
 
 <!ENTITY root            "<systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem>">
 <!ENTITY lfs-user        "<systemitem class='username'>lfs</systemitem>">
+<!ENTITY lfs-username    "<userinput remap='user'>lfs</userinput>">
+<!ENTITY lfs-groupname   "<userinput remap='group'>lfs</userinput>">
 <!ENTITY devtmpfs        "<systemitem class='filesystem'>devtmpfs</systemitem>">
 <!ENTITY fstab           "<filename>/etc/fstab</filename>">
 <!ENTITY boot-dir        "<filename class='directory'>/boot</filename>">

git-version.sh

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ if [ -e LFS-RELEASE ]; then
 fi
 
 if ! git status > /dev/null; then
-    # Either it's not a git repository, or git is unavaliable.
+    # Either it's not a git repository or git is unavailable.
     # Just workaround.
     echo "<![ %sysv; ["                                    >  version.ent
     echo "<!ENTITY version           \"unknown\">"         >> version.ent

lfs-latest-git.php

@@ -11,12 +11,9 @@ $exceptions = array();
 //$exceptions[ 'gmp' ] = "UPDIR=/.*(gmp-\d[\d\.-]*\d).*/:DOWNDIR=";
 
 $regex = array();
-//$regex[ 'bzip2'    ] = "/^.*current version is ([\d\.]+).*$/";
 $regex[ 'intltool' ] = "/^.*Latest version is (\d[\d\.]+\d).*$/";
 $regex[ 'less'     ] = "/^.*current released version is less-(\d+).*$/";
 $regex[ 'mpfr'     ] = "/^mpfr-([\d\.]+)\.tar.*$/";
-//$regex[ 'Python'   ] = "/^.*Latest Python 3.*Python (3[\d\.]+\d).*$/";
-//$regex[ 'sysvinit' ] = "/^.*sysvinit-([\d\.]+)dsf\.tar.*$/";
 $regex[ 'tzdata'   ] = "/^.*tzdata([\d]+[a-z]).*$/";
 $regex[ 'xz'       ] = "/^.*xz-([\d\.]*\d).*$/";
 $regex[ 'zlib'     ] = "/^.*zlib ([\d\.]*\d).*$/";
@@ -118,44 +115,43 @@ function get_packages( $package, $dirpath )
   global $exceptions;
   global $regex;
 
-//if ( $package != "psmisc" ) return 0; // debug
+//if ( $package != "wheel" ) return 0; // debug
 
 if ( $package == "bc"         ) $dirpath = github("gavinhoward/bc");
-if ( $package == "check"      ) $dirpath = github("libcheck/check");
 if ( $package == "e2fsprogs"  ) $dirpath = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs/files/e2fsprogs";
 if ( $package == "expat"      ) $dirpath = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files";
 if ( $package == "elfutils"   ) $dirpath = "https://sourceware.org/ftp/elfutils";
 if ( $package == "expect"     ) $dirpath = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/expect/files";
 if ( $package == "file"       ) $dirpath = "https://github.com/file/file/tags";
 if ( $package == "flex"       ) $dirpath = github("westes/flex");
-if ( $package == "flit_core"  ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/project/flit-core/";
-if ( $package == "setuptools" ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/";
+if ( $package == "flit_core"  ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/rss/project/flit-core/releases.xml";
 if ( $package == "gcc"        ) $dirpath = max_parent( $dirpath, "gcc-" );
 if ( $package == "iana-etc"   ) $dirpath = github("Mic92/iana-etc");
 if ( $package == "intltool"   ) $dirpath = "https://launchpad.net/intltool/trunk";
+if ( $package == "jinja"      ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/rss/project/jinja2/releases.xml";
 if ( $package == "libffi"     ) $dirpath = github("libffi/libffi");
 if ( $package == "libxcrypt"  ) $dirpath = github("besser82/libxcrypt");
 if ( $package == "lz4"        ) $dirpath = github("lz4/lz4");
+if ( $package == "markupsafe" ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/rss/project/markupsafe/releases.xml";
 if ( $package == "meson"      ) $dirpath = github("mesonbuild/meson");
 if ( $package == "mpc"        ) $dirpath = "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpc";
 if ( $package == "mpfr"       ) $dirpath = "https://mpfr.loria.fr/mpfr-current";
 if ( $package == "ncurses"    ) $dirpath = "https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses";
 if ( $package == "ninja"      ) $dirpath = github("ninja-build/ninja");
 if ( $package == "openssl"    ) $dirpath = github("openssl/openssl");
+if ( $package == "packaging"  ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/rss/project/packaging/releases.xml";
 if ( $package == "procps-ng"  ) $dirpath = "https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/tags";
 if ( $package == "psmisc"     ) $dirpath = "https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc/-/tags";
 if ( $package == "Python"     ) $dirpath = "https://www.python.org/downloads/source/";
+if ( $package == "setuptools" ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/rss/project/setuptools/releases.xml";
 if ( $package == "shadow"     ) $dirpath = github("shadow-maint/shadow");
 if ( $package == "sysvinit"   ) $dirpath = github("slicer69/sysvinit");
-if ( $package == "MarkupSafe" ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MarkupSafe/";
-if ( $package == "jinja"      ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Jinja2/";
 if ( $package == "sysklogd"   ) $dirpath = github("troglobit/sysklogd");
 if ( $package == "systemd"    ) $dirpath = github("systemd/systemd");
-//if ( $package == "tcl"        ) $dirpath = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files";
 if ( $package == "tcl"        ) $dirpath = "https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/download.html";
 if ( $package == "util-linux" ) $dirpath = max_parent( $dirpath, "v." );
 if ( $package == "vim"        ) $dirpath = "https://github.com/vim/vim/tags";
-if ( $package == "wheel"      ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/project/wheel/#files";
+if ( $package == "wheel"      ) $dirpath = "https://pypi.org/rss/project/wheel/releases.xml";
 if ( $package == "xz"         ) $dirpath = github("tukaani-project/xz");
 if ( $package == "zlib"       ) $dirpath = "https://www.zlib.net";
 if ( $package == "zstd"       ) $dirpath = github("facebook/zstd");
@@ -236,7 +232,7 @@ if ( $package == "zstd"       ) $dirpath = github("facebook/zstd");
   }
 
   if ( $package == "tcl" )
-     return find_max( $lines, "/tcl\d/", "/^.*tcl(\d\.[\d\.]*\d)-src.*$/" );
+     return find_max( $lines, "/tcl8/", "/^.*tcl(\d\.[\d\.]*\d)-src.*$/" );
 
   if ( $package == "gmp" )
      return find_max( $lines, "/$package/", "/^.*$package-([\d\._]*\d[a-z]?).tar.*$/" );
@@ -250,11 +246,25 @@ if ( $package == "zstd"       ) $dirpath = github("facebook/zstd");
      return str_replace( "_", ".", $max );
   }
 
+  # Python modules
   if ( $package == "flit_core" )
-     return find_max( $lines, "/flit-core /", "/^.*flit-core ([\d\.]+)$/" );
+     return find_max( $lines, "/flit-core\/\d/", "/^.*flit-core\/([\d\.]+).*$/" );
 
   if ( $package == "setuptools" )
-     return find_max( $lines, "/setuptools /", "/^.*setuptools ([\d\.]+)$/" );
+     return find_max( $lines, "/setuptools\/\d/", "/^.*setuptools\/([\d\.]+).*$/" );
+
+  if ( $package == "markupsafe" )
+     return find_max( $lines, "/markupsafe\/\d/", "/^.*markupsafe\/([\d\.]+).*$/" );
+
+  if ( $package == "jinja" )
+     return find_max( $lines, "/jinja2\/\d/", "/^.*jinja2\/([\d\.]+).*$/" );
+
+  if ( $package == "wheel" )
+     return find_max( $lines, "/wheel\/\d/", "/^.*wheel\/([\d\.]+).*$/" );
+  # End Python modules
+
+  if ( $package == "packaging" )
+     return find_max( $lines, "/packaging/", "/^.*^.*packaging.([\d\.]+\d)\/.*$/" );
 
   if ( $package == "procps-ng" )
      return find_max( $lines, "/v\d/", "/^.*v([\d\.]+)$/" );
@@ -265,9 +275,6 @@ if ( $package == "zstd"       ) $dirpath = github("facebook/zstd");
   if ( $package == "grub" )
      return find_max( $lines, "/grub/", "/^.*grub-([\d\.]+).tar.xz.*$/" );
 
-  if ( $package == "jinja" )
-     return find_max( $lines, "/Jinja/", "/^.*Jinja2 ([\d\.]+).*$/" );
-
   if ( $package == "lz4" )
      return find_max( $lines, "/tag_name/", '/^.*v([\d\.]+).*$/' );
 
@@ -322,7 +329,7 @@ function get_current()
       $file = basename( $line ) . "\n";
       if ( preg_match( "/patch$/", $file ) ) { continue; } // Skip patches
 
-      $file = preg_replace( "/bz2/", '', $file ); // The 2 confusses the regex
+      $file = preg_replace( "/bz2/", '', $file ); // The 2 confuses the regex
 
       $file        = rtrim( $file );
       $pkg_pattern = "/(\D*).*/";

packages.ent

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 <!-- Notes:
      For empty *-home entities use " " not ""
-     Packages sizes allways in KB
+     Packages sizes always in KB
      Allowed deviation in SBUs : 10%
      Allowed deviation in disk usage : 2%
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 <!ENTITY acl-url "&savannah;/releases/acl/acl-&acl-version;.tar.xz">
 <!ENTITY acl-md5 "590765dee95907dbc3c856f7255bd669">
 <!ENTITY acl-home "&savannah-nongnu;/projects/acl">
-<!ENTITY acl-fin-du "6.3 MB">
+<!ENTITY acl-fin-du "6.5 MB">
 <!ENTITY acl-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY attr-version "2.5.2">
@@ -35,47 +35,47 @@
 <!ENTITY autoconf-md5 "1be79f7106ab6767f18391c5e22be701">
 <!ENTITY autoconf-home "&gnu-software;autoconf/">
 <!ENTITY autoconf-fin-du "25 MB">
-<!ENTITY autoconf-fin-sbu-tests "1.8">
+<!ENTITY autoconf-fin-sbu-tests "0.4">
 <!ENTITY autoconf-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU (about &autoconf-fin-sbu-tests; SBU with tests)">
 
-<!ENTITY automake-version "1.17">
-<!ENTITY am-minor-version "1.17">
+<!ENTITY automake-version "1.18">
+<!ENTITY am-minor-version "1.18">
 <!ENTITY automake-size "1,614 KB">
 <!ENTITY automake-url "&gnu;automake/automake-&automake-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY automake-md5 "7ab3a02318fee6f5bd42adfc369abf10">
+<!ENTITY automake-md5 "1320dd6a6aae0d97668daa089086c083">
 <!ENTITY automake-home "&gnu-software;automake/">
 <!ENTITY automake-fin-du "121 MB">
 <!ENTITY automake-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU (about 1.1 SBU with tests)">
 
-<!ENTITY bash-version "5.2.32">
-<!ENTITY bash-size "10,697 KB">
+<!ENTITY bash-version "5.3-rc2">
+<!ENTITY bash-size "10,774 KB">
 <!ENTITY bash-url "&gnu;bash/bash-&bash-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY bash-md5 "f204835b2e06c06e37b5ad776ff907f4">
+<!ENTITY bash-md5 "9c440d7c5ca37433e496c5e22f8918c6">
 <!ENTITY bash-home "&gnu-software;bash/">
-<!ENTITY bash-tmp-du "67 MB">
+<!ENTITY bash-tmp-du "68 MB">
 <!ENTITY bash-tmp-sbu "0.2 SBU">
-<!ENTITY bash-fin-du "52 MB">
+<!ENTITY bash-fin-du "53 MB">
 <!ENTITY bash-fin-sbu "1.4 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY bc-version "6.7.6">
-<!ENTITY bc-size "463 KB">
+<!ENTITY bc-version "7.0.3">
+<!ENTITY bc-size "464 KB">
 <!ENTITY bc-url "https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc/releases/download/&bc-version;/bc-&bc-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY bc-md5 "a47aa5e4e7395fbcd159a9228613b97b">
-<!ENTITY bc-home "https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc">
+<!ENTITY bc-md5 "ad4db5a0eb4fdbb3f6813be4b6b3da74">
+<!ENTITY bc-home "https://github.com/gavinhoward">
 <!ENTITY bc-fin-du "7.8 MB">
 <!ENTITY bc-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.43.1">
-<!ENTITY binutils-size "27,514 KB">
+<!ENTITY binutils-version "2.44">
+<!ENTITY binutils-size "26,647 KB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-url "https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/binutils-&binutils-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY binutils-md5 "9202d02925c30969d1917e4bad5a2320">
+<!ENTITY binutils-md5 "49912ce774666a30806141f106124294">
 <!ENTITY binutils-home "&gnu-software;binutils/">
 <!ENTITY binutils-tmpp1-du "677 MB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-tmpp1-sbu "1 SBU">
-<!ENTITY binutils-tmpp2-du "549 MB">
+<!ENTITY binutils-tmpp2-du "539 MB">
 <!ENTITY binutils-tmpp2-sbu "0.4 SBU">
-<!ENTITY binutils-fin-du "2.7 GB">
-<!ENTITY binutils-fin-sbu "2.0 SBU">
+<!ENTITY binutils-fin-du "819 MB">
+<!ENTITY binutils-fin-sbu "1.6 SBU">
 <!ENTITY libsframe-version "1.0.0">
 
 <!ENTITY bison-version "3.8.2">
@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@
 <!ENTITY bison-url "&gnu;bison/bison-&bison-version;.tar.xz">
 <!ENTITY bison-md5 "c28f119f405a2304ff0a7ccdcc629713">
 <!ENTITY bison-home "&gnu-software;bison/">
-<!ENTITY bison-tmp-du "57 MB">
+<!ENTITY bison-tmp-du "58 MB">
 <!ENTITY bison-tmp-sbu "0.2 SBU">
 <!ENTITY bison-fin-du "62 MB">
-<!ENTITY bison-fin-sbu "2.2 SBU">
+<!ENTITY bison-fin-sbu "2.1 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY bzip2-version "1.0.8">
 <!ENTITY bzip2-size "792 KB">
@@ -96,30 +96,22 @@
 <!ENTITY bzip2-fin-du "7.2 MB">
 <!ENTITY bzip2-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY check-version "0.15.2">
-<!ENTITY check-size "760 KB">
-<!ENTITY check-url "&github;/libcheck/check/releases/download/&check-version;/check-&check-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY check-md5 "50fcafcecde5a380415b12e9c574e0b2">
-<!ENTITY check-home "https://libcheck.github.io/check">
-<!ENTITY check-fin-du "11 MB">
-<!ENTITY check-fin-sbu "0.1 SBU (about 2.1 SBU with tests)">
-
-<!ENTITY coreutils-version "9.5">
-<!ENTITY coreutils-size "5,867 KB">
+<!ENTITY coreutils-version "9.7">
+<!ENTITY coreutils-size "6,015 KB">
 <!ENTITY coreutils-url "&gnu;coreutils/coreutils-&coreutils-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY coreutils-md5 "e99adfa059a63db3503cc71f3d151e31">
+<!ENTITY coreutils-md5 "6b7285faf7d5eb91592bdd689270d3f1">
 <!ENTITY coreutils-home "&gnu-software;coreutils/">
-<!ENTITY coreutils-tmp-du "175 MB">
+<!ENTITY coreutils-tmp-du "181 MB">
 <!ENTITY coreutils-tmp-sbu "0.3 SBU">
-<!ENTITY coreutils-fin-du "173 MB">
-<!ENTITY coreutils-fin-sbu "1.1 SBU">
+<!ENTITY coreutils-fin-du "182 MB">
+<!ENTITY coreutils-fin-sbu "1.2 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY dbus-version "1.14.10">
-<!ENTITY dbus-size "1,344 KB">
+<!ENTITY dbus-version "1.16.2">
+<!ENTITY dbus-size "1,090 KB">
 <!ENTITY dbus-url "https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-&dbus-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY dbus-md5 "46070a3487817ff690981f8cd2ba9376">
+<!ENTITY dbus-md5 "97832e6f0a260936d28536e5349c22e5">
 <!ENTITY dbus-home "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus">
-<!ENTITY dbus-fin-du "19 MB">
+<!ENTITY dbus-fin-du "17 MB">
 <!ENTITY dbus-fin-sbu "0.1 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY dejagnu-version "1.6.3">
@@ -130,38 +122,38 @@
 <!ENTITY dejagnu-tmp-du "6.9 MB">
 <!ENTITY dejagnu-tmp-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY diffutils-version "3.10">
-<!ENTITY diffutils-size "1,587 KB">
+<!ENTITY diffutils-version "3.12">
+<!ENTITY diffutils-size "1,894 KB">
 <!ENTITY diffutils-url "&gnu;diffutils/diffutils-&diffutils-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY diffutils-md5 "2745c50f6f4e395e7b7d52f902d075bf">
+<!ENTITY diffutils-md5 "d1b18b20868fb561f77861cd90b05de4">
 <!ENTITY diffutils-home "&gnu-software;diffutils/">
-<!ENTITY diffutils-tmp-du "29 MB">
+<!ENTITY diffutils-tmp-du "35 MB">
 <!ENTITY diffutils-tmp-sbu "0.1 SBU">
-<!ENTITY diffutils-fin-du "42 MB">
-<!ENTITY diffutils-fin-sbu "0.3 SBU">
+<!ENTITY diffutils-fin-du "50 MB">
+<!ENTITY diffutils-fin-sbu "0.4 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-version "1.47.1">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-size "9,720 KB">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-version "1.47.2">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-size "9,763 KB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs/v&e2fsprogs-version;/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-md5 "75e6d1353cbe6d5728a98fb0267206cb">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-md5 "752e5a3ce19aea060d8a203f2fae9baa">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-home "https://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/">
-<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-fin-du "98 MB">
+<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-fin-du "99 MB">
 <!ENTITY e2fsprogs-fin-sbu "2.4 SBU on a spinning disk, 0.5 SBU on an SSD">
 
-<!ENTITY elfutils-version "0.191"> <!-- libelf -->
-<!ENTITY elfutils-size "9,092 KB">
+<!ENTITY elfutils-version "0.193"> <!-- libelf -->
+<!ENTITY elfutils-size "11,695 KB">
 <!ENTITY elfutils-url "https://sourceware.org/ftp/elfutils/&elfutils-version;/elfutils-&elfutils-version;.tar.bz2">
-<!ENTITY elfutils-md5 "636547248fb3fae58ec48030298d3ef7">
+<!ENTITY elfutils-md5 "ceefa052ded950a4c523688799193a44">
 <!ENTITY elfutils-home "https://sourceware.org/elfutils/">
-<!ENTITY elfutils-fin-du "127 MB">
+<!ENTITY elfutils-fin-du "135 MB">
 <!ENTITY elfutils-fin-sbu "0.3 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY expat-version "2.6.2">
-<!ENTITY expat-size "474 KB">
-<!ENTITY expat-url "&sourceforge;expat/expat-&expat-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY expat-md5 "0cb75c8feb842c0794ba89666b762a2d">
+<!ENTITY expat-version "2.7.1">
+<!ENTITY expat-size "485 KB">
+<!ENTITY expat-url "&github;/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_2_7_1/expat-&expat-version;.tar.xz">
+<!ENTITY expat-md5 "9f0c266ff4b9720beae0c6bd53ae4469">
 <!ENTITY expat-home "https://libexpat.github.io/">
-<!ENTITY expat-fin-du "13 MB">
+<!ENTITY expat-fin-du "14 MB">
 <!ENTITY expat-fin-sbu "0.1 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY expect-version "5.45.4">
@@ -172,14 +164,14 @@
 <!ENTITY expect-tmp-du "3.9 MB">
 <!ENTITY expect-tmp-sbu "0.2 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY file-version "5.45">
-<!ENTITY file-size "1,218 KB">
+<!ENTITY file-version "5.46">
+<!ENTITY file-size "1,283 KB">
 <!ENTITY file-url "https://astron.com/pub/file/file-&file-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY file-md5 "26b2a96d4e3a8938827a1e572afd527a">
+<!ENTITY file-md5 "459da2d4b534801e2e2861611d823864">
 <!ENTITY file-home "https://www.darwinsys.com/file/">
-<!ENTITY file-tmp-du "37 MB">
+<!ENTITY file-tmp-du "42 MB">
 <!ENTITY file-tmp-sbu "0.1 SBU">
-<!ENTITY file-fin-du "17 MB">
+<!ENTITY file-fin-du "19 MB">
 <!ENTITY file-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY findutils-version "4.10.0">
@@ -189,7 +181,7 @@
 <!ENTITY findutils-home "&gnu-software;findutils/">
 <!ENTITY findutils-tmp-du "48 MB">
 <!ENTITY findutils-tmp-sbu "0.2 SBU">
-<!ENTITY findutils-fin-du "62 MB">
+<!ENTITY findutils-fin-du "63 MB">
 <!ENTITY findutils-fin-sbu "0.7 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY flex-version "2.6.4">
@@ -200,33 +192,33 @@
 <!ENTITY flex-fin-du "33 MB">
 <!ENTITY flex-fin-sbu "0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY flit-core-version "3.9.0">
-<!ENTITY flit-core-size "41 KB">
+<!ENTITY flit-core-version "3.12.0">
+<!ENTITY flit-core-size "53 KB">
 <!ENTITY flit-core-url "&pypi-src;/f/flit-core/flit_core-&flit-core-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY flit-core-md5 "3bc52f1952b9a78361114147da63c35b">
+<!ENTITY flit-core-md5 "c538415c1f27bd69cbbbf3cdd5135d39">
 <!ENTITY flit-core-home "&pypi-home;/flit-core/">
-<!ENTITY flit-core-fin-du "1.6 MB">
+<!ENTITY flit-core-fin-du "1.0 MB">
 <!ENTITY flit-core-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY gawk-version "5.3.0">
-<!ENTITY gawk-size "3,356 KB">
+<!ENTITY gawk-version "5.3.2">
+<!ENTITY gawk-size "3,662 KB">
 <!ENTITY gawk-url "&gnu;gawk/gawk-&gawk-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY gawk-md5 "97c5a7d83f91a7e1b2035ebbe6ac7abd">
+<!ENTITY gawk-md5 "b7014650c5f45e5d4837c31209dc0037">
 <!ENTITY gawk-home "&gnu-software;gawk/">
 <!ENTITY gawk-tmp-du "47 MB">
 <!ENTITY gawk-tmp-sbu "0.1 SBU">
-<!ENTITY gawk-fin-du "42 MB">
+<!ENTITY gawk-fin-du "43 MB">
 <!ENTITY gawk-fin-sbu "0.2 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY gcc-version "14.2.0">
-<!ENTITY gcc-size "90,144 KB">
+<!ENTITY gcc-version "15.1.0">
+<!ENTITY gcc-size "95,966 KB">
 <!ENTITY gcc-url "&gnu;gcc/gcc-&gcc-version;/gcc-&gcc-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY gcc-md5 "2268420ba02dc01821960e274711bde0">
+<!ENTITY gcc-md5 "e55d13c55428bca27b4d2ea02f883135">
 <!ENTITY gcc-home "https://gcc.gnu.org/">
-<!ENTITY gcc-tmpp1-du "4.9 GB">
+<!ENTITY gcc-tmpp1-du "4.8 GB">
 <!ENTITY gcc-tmpp1-sbu "3.2 SBU">
 <!ENTITY gcc-tmpp2-du "5.5 GB">
-<!ENTITY gcc-tmpp2-sbu "4.2 SBU">
+<!ENTITY gcc-tmpp2-sbu "4.1 SBU">
 <!ENTITY gcc-fin-du "6.3 GB ">
 <!ENTITY gcc-fin-sbu "46 SBU (with tests)">
 <!ENTITY libquadmath-version "0.0.0">
@@ -234,35 +226,35 @@
 <!ENTITY libitm-version      "1.0.0">
 <!ENTITY libatomic-version   "1.2.0">
 
-<!ENTITY libstdcpp-tmpp1-du "1.2 GB">
+<!ENTITY libstdcpp-tmpp1-du "850 MB">
 <!ENTITY libstdcpp-tmpp1-sbu "0.2 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY gdbm-version "1.24">
-<!ENTITY gdbm-size "1,168 KB">
+<!ENTITY gdbm-version "1.25">
+<!ENTITY gdbm-size "1,196 KB">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-url "&gnu;gdbm/gdbm-&gdbm-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY gdbm-md5 "c780815649e52317be48331c1773e987">
+<!ENTITY gdbm-md5 "46266720c7980b75f29e3554aeaeb7a8">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-home "&gnu-software;gdbm/">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-fin-du "13 MB">
 <!ENTITY gdbm-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY gettext-version "0.22.5">
-<!ENTITY gettext-size "10,031 KB">
+<!ENTITY gettext-version "0.25">
+<!ENTITY gettext-size "9,701 KB">
 <!ENTITY gettext-url "&gnu;gettext/gettext-&gettext-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY gettext-md5 "3ae5580599d84be93e6213930facb2db">
+<!ENTITY gettext-md5 "355a09fa53ae2e87dd493e040d437874">
 <!ENTITY gettext-home "&gnu-software;gettext/">
-<!ENTITY gettext-tmp-du "321 MB">
-<!ENTITY gettext-tmp-sbu "1.1 SBU">
-<!ENTITY gettext-fin-du "260 MB">
-<!ENTITY gettext-fin-sbu "1.6 SBU">
+<!ENTITY gettext-tmp-du "349 MB">
+<!ENTITY gettext-tmp-sbu "1.3 SBU">
+<!ENTITY gettext-fin-du "290 MB">
+<!ENTITY gettext-fin-sbu "1.7 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY glibc-version "2.40">
-<!ENTITY glibc-size "18,313 KB">
+<!ENTITY glibc-version "2.41">
+<!ENTITY glibc-size "18,892 KB">
 <!ENTITY glibc-url "&gnu;glibc/glibc-&glibc-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY glibc-md5 "b390feef233022114950317f10c4fa97">
+<!ENTITY glibc-md5 "19862601af60f73ac69e067d3e9267d4">
 <!ENTITY glibc-home "&gnu-software;libc/">
-<!ENTITY glibc-tmp-du "828 MB">
-<!ENTITY glibc-tmp-sbu "1.3 SBU">
-<!ENTITY glibc-fin-du "3.1 GB">
+<!ENTITY glibc-tmp-du "850 MB">
+<!ENTITY glibc-tmp-sbu "1.4 SBU">
+<!ENTITY glibc-fin-du "3.2 GB">
 <!ENTITY glibc-fin-sbu "12 SBU">
 
 <!ENTITY gmp-version "6.3.0">
@@ -273,18 +265,18 @@
 <!ENTITY gmp-fin-du "54 MB">
 <!ENTITY gmp-fin-sbu "0.3 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY gperf-version "3.1">
-<!ENTITY gperf-size "1,188 KB">
+<!ENTITY gperf-version "3.3">
+<!ENTITY gperf-size "1,789 KB">
 <!ENTITY gperf-url "&gnu;gperf/gperf-&gperf-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY gperf-md5 "9e251c0a618ad0824b51117d5d9db87e">
+<!ENTITY gperf-md5 "31753b021ea78a21f154bf9eecb8b079">
 <!ENTITY gperf-home "&gnu-software;gperf/">
 <!ENTITY gperf-fin-du "6.1 MB">
 <!ENTITY gperf-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY grep-version "3.11">
-<!ENTITY grep-size "1,664 KB">
+<!ENTITY grep-version "3.12">
+<!ENTITY grep-size "1,874 KB">
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+<!ENTITY shadow-size "2,273 KB">
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+<!ENTITY sysklogd-size "474 KB">
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      In the event of a critical problem or kernel change that is incompatible, 
      we will switch to the backport branch until the next stable release. -->
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+<!ENTITY sysvinit-version "3.14">
+<!ENTITY sysvinit-size "236 KB">
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+<!ENTITY texinfo-fin-du "160 MB">
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+<!ENTITY tzdata-version "2025b">
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-<!ENTITY util-linux-minor "2.40">
-<!ENTITY util-linux-version "2.40.2"> <!-- 2.33.x -->
-<!ENTITY util-linux-size "8,648 KB">
+<!ENTITY util-linux-minor "2.41">
+<!ENTITY util-linux-version "2.41"> <!-- 2.33.x -->
+<!ENTITY util-linux-size "9,313 KB">
 <!ENTITY util-linux-url "&kernel;linux/utils/util-linux/v&util-linux-minor;/util-linux-&util-linux-version;.tar.xz">
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+<!ENTITY util-linux-tmp-du "182 MB">
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+<!ENTITY util-linux-fin-du "316 MB">
 <!ENTITY util-linux-fin-sbu "0.5 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY vim-version "9.1.0660">
+<!ENTITY vim-version "9.1.1418">
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 <!ENTITY vim-docdir "vim/vim91">
-<!ENTITY vim-size "17,629 KB">
+<!ENTITY vim-size "18,414 KB">
 <!ENTITY vim-url "https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/v&vim-version;/vim-&vim-version;.tar.gz">
 <!-- N.B. LFS 9.0 uses
      https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/v8.1.1846/vim-8.1.1846.tar.gz
@@ -762,17 +762,17 @@
      example, https://github.com/vim/vim/tags?after=v8.1.1847 will show
      us v8.1.1846. -->
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-<!ENTITY vim-md5 "c512a99b3704f193be1a181cc644b2b2">
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+<!ENTITY vim-fin-sbu "3.4 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY wheel-version "0.44.0">
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+<!ENTITY wheel-version "0.46.1">
+<!ENTITY wheel-size "54 KB">
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-<!ENTITY wheel-md5 "440ff4fe51579b7ed16f02af8f8d9494">
+<!ENTITY wheel-md5 "65e09ee84af36821e3b1e9564aa91bd5">
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+<!ENTITY wheel-fin-du "1.6 MB">
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 <!ENTITY xml-parser-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY xz-version "5.6.2">
-<!ENTITY xz-size "1,277 KB">
+<!ENTITY xz-version "5.8.1">
+<!ENTITY xz-size "1,428 KB">
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 <!ENTITY zlib-fin-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
 
-<!ENTITY zstd-version "1.5.6">
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+<!ENTITY zstd-version "1.5.7">
+<!ENTITY zstd-size "2,378 KB">
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part3intro/toolchaintechnotes.xml

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
   %general-entities;
+
+  <!ENTITY host-triplet
+           "<replaceable>&lt;the host triplet&gt;</replaceable>">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="ch-tools-toolchaintechnotes" xreflabel="Toolchain Technical Notes">
@@ -44,6 +47,14 @@
         book for a cross-toolchain for some purpose other
         than building LFS, unless you really understand what you are doing.
       </para>
+
+      <para>
+        It's known installing GCC pass 2 will break the cross-toolchain.
+        We don't consider it a bug because GCC pass 2 is the last package
+        to be cross-compiled in the book, and we won't <quote>fix</quote>
+        it until we really need to cross-compile some package after GCC
+        pass 2 in the future.
+      </para>
     </note>
 
     <para>Cross-compilation involves some concepts that deserve a section of
@@ -197,14 +208,105 @@
       page</ulink>.</para>
     </note>
 
-    <para>In order to fake a cross-compilation in LFS, the name of the host triplet
-    is slightly adjusted by changing the &quot;vendor&quot; field in the
-    <envar>LFS_TGT</envar> variable so it says &quot;lfs&quot;. We also use the
-    <parameter>--with-sysroot</parameter> option when building the cross-linker and
-    cross-compiler, to tell them where to find the needed host files. This
-    ensures that none of the other programs built in <xref
-    linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> can link to libraries on the build
-    machine. Only two stages are mandatory, plus one more for tests.</para>
+    <para>
+      There are two key points for a cross-compilation:
+    </para>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When producing and processing the machine code supposed to be
+          executed on <quote>the host,</quote> the cross-toolchain must be
+          used.  Note that the native toolchain from <quote>the build</quote>
+          may be still invoked to generate machine code supposed to be
+          executed on <quote>the build.</quote>  For example, the build system
+          may compile a generator with the native toolchain, then generate
+          a C source file with the generator, and finally compile the C
+          source file with the cross-toolchain so the generated code will
+          be able to run on <quote>the host.</quote>
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          With an autoconf-based build system, this requirement is ensured
+          by using the <parameter>--host</parameter> switch to specify
+          <quote>the host</quote> triplet.  With this switch the build
+          system will use the toolchain components prefixed
+          with <literal>&host-triplet;</literal>
+          for generating and processing the machine code for
+          <quote>the host</quote>; e.g. the compiler will be
+          <command>&host-triplet;-gcc</command> and the
+          <command>readelf</command> tool will be
+          <command>&host-triplet;-readelf</command>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          The build system should not attempt to run any generated machine
+          code supposed to be executed on <quote>the host.</quote>  For
+          example, when building a utility natively, its man page can be
+          generated by running the utility with the
+          <parameter>--help</parameter> switch and processing the output,
+          but generally it's not possible to do so for a cross-compilation
+          as the utility may fail
+          to run on <quote>the build</quote>: it's obviously impossible to
+          run ARM64 machine code on a x86 CPU (without an emulator).
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          With an autoconf-based build system, this requirement is
+          satisfied in <quote>the cross-compilation mode</quote> where
+          the optional features requiring to run machine code for
+          <quote>the host</quote> during the build time are disabled.  When <quote>the
+          host</quote> triplet is explicitly specified, <quote>the
+          cross-compilation mode</quote> is enabled if and only if either
+          the <command>configure</command> script fails to run a dummy
+          program compiled into <quote>the host</quote> machine code, or
+          <quote>the build</quote> triplet is explicitly specified via the
+          <parameter>--build</parameter> switch and it's different from
+          <quote>the host</quote> triplet.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <para>In order to cross-compile a package for the LFS temporary system,
+    the name of the system triplet is slightly adjusted by changing the
+    &quot;vendor&quot; field in the <envar>LFS_TGT</envar> variable so it
+    says &quot;lfs&quot; and <envar>LFS_TGT</envar> is then specified as
+    <quote>the host</quote> triplet via <parameter>--host</parameter>, so
+    the cross-toolchain will be used for generating and processing the
+    machine code running as a part of the LFS temporary system.  And, we
+    also need to enable <quote>the cross-compilation mode</quote>: despite
+    <quote>the host</quote> machine code, i.e. the machine code for the LFS
+    temporary system, is able to execute on the current CPU, it may refer
+    to a library not available on the <quote>the build</quote> (the host
+    distro), or some code or data non-exist or defined differently in the
+    library even if it happens to be available.  When cross-compiling a
+    package for the LFS temporary system, we cannot rely on the
+    <command>configure</command> script to detect this issue with the
+    dummy program: the dummy only uses a few components in
+    <systemitem class='library'>libc</systemitem> that the host distro
+    <systemitem class='library'>libc</systemitem> likely provides (unless,
+    maybe the host distro uses a different
+    <systemitem class='library'>libc</systemitem> implementation like Musl),
+    so it won't fail like how the really useful programs would likely.
+    Thus we must explicitly specify <quote>the build</quote> triplet to
+    enable <quote>the cross-compilation mode.</quote>  The value we use is
+    just the default, i.e. the original system triplet from
+    <command>config.guess</command> output, but <quote>the cross-compilation
+    mode</quote> depends on an explicit specification as we've
+    discussed.</para>
+
+    <para>We use the <parameter>--with-sysroot</parameter> option when
+    building the cross-linker and cross-compiler, to tell them where to find
+    the needed files for <quote>the host.</quote> This nearly ensures that
+    none of the other programs built in
+    <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> can link to libraries on
+    <quote>the build.</quote> The word <quote>nearly</quote> is used because
+    <command>libtool</command>, a <quote>compatibility</quote> wrapper of
+    the compiler and the linker for autoconf-based build systems,
+    can try to be too clever and mistakenly pass options allowing the linker
+    to find libraries of <quote>the build.</quote>
+    To prevent this fallout, we need to delete the libtool archive
+    (<filename class='extension'>.la</filename>) files and fix up an
+    outdated libtool copy shipped with the Binutils code.</para>
 
     <informaltable align="center">
       <tgroup cols="5">
@@ -228,7 +330,7 @@
           </row>
           <row>
             <entry>3</entry><entry>lfs</entry><entry>lfs</entry><entry>lfs</entry>
-            <entry>Rebuild and test cc-lfs using cc-lfs on lfs.</entry>
+            <entry>Rebuild (and maybe test) cc-lfs using cc-lfs on lfs.</entry>
           </row>
         </tbody>
       </tgroup>
@@ -256,30 +358,11 @@
     <para>The upshot of the preceding paragraph is that cc1 is unable to
     build a fully functional libstdc++ with the degraded libgcc, but cc1
     is the only compiler available for building the C/C++ libraries
-    during stage 2. There are two reasons we don't immediately use the
-    compiler built in stage 2, cc-lfs, to build those libraries.</para>
-
-    <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Generally speaking, cc-lfs cannot run on pc (the host system).  Even though the
-          triplets for pc and lfs are compatible with each other, an executable
-          for lfs must depend on glibc-&glibc-version;; the host distro
-          may utilize either a different implementation of libc (for example, musl), or
-          a previous release of glibc (for example, glibc-2.13).
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Even if cc-lfs can run on pc, using it on pc would create
-          a risk of linking to the pc libraries, since cc-lfs is a native
-          compiler.
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <para>So when we build gcc stage 2, we instruct the building system to
-    rebuild libgcc and libstdc++ with cc1, but we link libstdc++ to the newly
+    during stage 2.  As we've discussed, we cannot run cc-lfs on pc (the
+    host distro) because it may require some library, code, or data not
+    available on <quote>the build</quote> (the host distro).
+    So when we build gcc stage 2, we override the library
+    search path to link libstdc++ against the newly
     rebuilt libgcc instead of the old, degraded build.  This makes the rebuilt
     libstdc++ fully functional.</para>
 
@@ -290,12 +373,11 @@
     package on a completed LFS system, the reinstalled content of the package
     should be the same as the content of the same package when first installed in
     &ch-final;.  The temporary packages installed in &ch-tmp-cross; or
-    &ch-tmp-chroot; cannot satisfy this requirement, because some of them
-    are built without optional dependencies, and autoconf cannot
-    perform some feature checks in &ch-tmp-cross; because of cross-compilation,
-    causing the temporary packages to lack optional features,
-    or use suboptimal code routines. Additionally, a minor reason for
-    rebuilding the packages is to run the test suites.</para>
+    &ch-tmp-chroot; cannot satisfy this requirement, because some optional
+    features of them are disabled because of either the missing
+    dependencies or the <quote>cross-compilation mode.</quote>
+    Additionally, a minor reason for rebuilding the packages is to run the
+    test suites.</para>
 
   </sect2>
 
@@ -357,39 +439,25 @@ checking what linker to use... /mnt/lfs/tools/i686-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ld</compute
     standard C library (glibc) to interface with features that the Linux
     kernel will provide.</para>
 
-    <para>Next comes glibc. The most important
-    considerations for building glibc are the compiler, binary tools, and
-    kernel headers. The compiler and binary tools are generally not an issue
-    since glibc will always those relating to the <parameter>--host</parameter>
-    parameter passed to its configure script; e.g., in our case, the compiler
-    will be <command>$LFS_TGT-gcc</command> and the <command>readelf</command>
-    tool will be <command>$LFS_TGT-readelf</command>. The kernel headers can
-    be a bit more complicated. Therefore, we take no risks and use
-    the available configure switch to enforce the correct selection. After
-    the run of <command>configure</command>, check the contents of the
-    <filename>config.make</filename> file in the <filename
-    class="directory">build</filename> directory for all important details.
-    These items highlight an important aspect of the glibc
-    package&mdash;it is very self-sufficient in terms of its build machinery,
-    and generally does not rely on toolchain defaults.</para>
+    <para>Next comes glibc. This is the first package that we cross-compile.
+    We use the <parameter>--host=$LFS_TGT</parameter> option to make
+    the build system to use those tools prefixed with
+    <literal>$LFS_TGT-</literal>, and the
+    <parameter>--build=$(../scripts/config.guess)</parameter> option to
+    enable <quote>the cross-compilation mode</quote> as we've discussed.
+    The <envar>DESTDIR</envar> variable is used to force installation into
+    the LFS file system.</para>
 
     <para>As mentioned above, the standard C++ library is compiled next, followed in
     <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> by other programs that must
     be cross-compiled to break circular dependencies at build time.
-    The install step of all those packages uses the
-    <envar>DESTDIR</envar> variable to force installation
-    in the LFS filesystem.</para>
+    The steps for those packages are similar to the steps for glibc.</para>
 
     <para>At the end of <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> the native
     LFS compiler is installed. First binutils-pass2 is built,
     in the same <envar>DESTDIR</envar> directory as the other programs,
     then the second pass of gcc is constructed, omitting some
-    non-critical libraries.  Due to some weird logic in gcc's
-    configure script, <envar>CC_FOR_TARGET</envar> ends up as
-    <command>cc</command> when the host is the same as the target, but
-    different from the build system. This is why
-    <parameter>CC_FOR_TARGET=$LFS_TGT-gcc</parameter> is declared explicitly
-    as one of the configuration options.</para>
+    non-critical libraries.</para>
 
     <para>Upon entering the chroot environment in <xref
     linkend="chapter-chroot-temporary-tools"/>,