This is version 10.1-mips64el of the Linux From Scratch book, dated March 10th, 2021. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mirrors.html.
Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
2021-03-10
[xry111] - LFS-10.1-mips64el released.
2021-03-01
[bdubbs] - LFS-10.1 released.
2021-02-14
[renodr] - Add a command explanation for 'pwait'.
[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.36.2. Fixes #4812.
[bdubbs] - Update to tar-1.34. Fixes #4813.
[bdubbs] - Update to psmisc-23.4. Fixes #4805.
[bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-3.3.17. Fixes #4811.
[bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.9.4. Fixes #4808.
[bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.10. Fixes #4810.
[bdubbs] - Update to elfutils-0.183. Fixes #4806.
[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.46.1. Fixes #4809.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.7. Fixes #4814.
2021-02-02
[pierre] - Move tcl, expect, and dejagnu just before binutils in chapter 8: this allows to build them against chapter 8 glibc.
[pierre] - To allow building with newer version of glibc than the host distribution, build a "file" executable for the host before cross-compiling it.
[pierre] - Replace the relinked libctf (which may incorrectly link against libz from the host distribution) with the one that was linked during "make" in binutils-pass2. Thanks to Xi Ruoyao for the fix.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.6. Fixes #4800.
[bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.33. Fixes #4799.
[bdubbs] - Minor change to mountfs boot script. Fixes #4798.
2021-02-01
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2433. Addresses #4500.
[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20210115. Addresses #4722.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.5. Fixes #4797.
[bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.46.0. Fixes #4796.
[bdubbs] - Update to autoconf-2.71. Fixes #4795.
[bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2021a. Fixes #4793.
[bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.32.1. Fixes #4792.
[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.47. Fixes #4791.
[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.5. Fixes #4790.
[bdubbs] - Update to binutils-2.36. Fixes #4789.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.10.12. Fixes #4786.
2020-01-16
2021-01-13
[xry111] - Fix util-linux uuidd socket path.
[xry111] - Remove various references to deprecated /var/run, use /run instead.
[xry111] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20210113.
2021-01-01
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2253. Addresses #4500.
[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201229. Addresses #4722.
[bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.19. Fixes #4779.
[bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2020f. Fixes #4777.
[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.10. Fixes #4776.
[bdubbs] - Update to iproute2-5.10.0. Fixes #4775.
[bdubbs] - Update to zstd-1.4.8. Fixes #4774.
[bdubbs] - Update to kbd-2.4.0. Fixes #4773.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.10.4. Fixes #4772.
2020-12-15
[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.46. Fixes #4771.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.4. Fixes #4770.
[bdubbs] - Update to autoconf-2.70. Fixes #4769.
[bdubbs] - Update to openssl-1.1.1i. Fixes #4768.
[bdubbs] - Update to Python3-3.9.1. Fixes #4767.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.14. Fixes #4766.
[bdubbs] - Update to bash-5.1 and readline-8.1. Fixes #4764.
2020-12-07
[ken] - Patch meson-0.56.0 to correctly create pkgconfig files re static libraries (re sysprof in BLFS) . Fixes #4675.
2020-12-01
[bdubbs] - Update to ninja-1.10.2. Fixes #4760.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.2.1. Fixes #4759.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.11. Fixes #4758.
[bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.16.3. Fixes #4757.
[bdubbs] - Update to sysvinit-2.98. Fixes #4756.
[bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.36.1. Fixes #4755.
[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201124. Addresses #4722.
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.2070. Addresses #4500.
2020-11-15
[bdubbs] - Update to gmp-6.2.1. Fixes #4754.
[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201110. Addresses #4722.
[bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-5.09. Fixes #4750.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9.8. Fixes #4749.
[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.45. Fixes #4751.
[bdubbs] - Update to grep-3.6. Fixes #4752.
[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.4. Fixes #4753.
2020-10-19
[dj] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20201019.
2020-10-15
[bdubbs] - Update to iana-etc-20201012. Addresses #4722.
[bdubbs] - Update to vim-8.2.1845. Addresses #4500.
[bdubbs] - Update to bison-3.7.3. Fixes #4738.
[bdubbs] - Update to tzdata-2020b. Fixes #4737.
[bdubbs] - Update to libcap-2.44. Fixes #4735.
[bdubbs] - Update to Python-3.9. Fixes #4736.
[bdubbs] - Update to expat-2.2.10. Fixes #4734.
[bdubbs] - Update to bc-3.1.6. Fixes #4732.
[bdubbs] - Update to linux-5.9. Fixes #4733.
2020-09-27
[bdubbs] - Add autoconf-2.69-consolidated_fixes-1.patch which allows autoconf tests to pass.
2020-09-01
[bdubbs] - LFS-10.0 released.