Errata for the 6.2 Version of the LFS Book

Miscellaneous Errata

• A new version of Shadow has been released, changing the location of the tarball used in LFS-6.2. The 4.0.15 version can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/old/.

• Glibc-2.3.6 expects that /bin/sh is `bash' and uses some `bash' specific syntax in the Makefiles. On some hosts, such as Ubuntu, this is not the case and the Chapter 5 glibc build can fail. To work around the problem, add SHELL=/bin/bash to all the `make' commands. For instance, `make install' would become `make install SHELL=/bin/bash'. This is not a problem in Chapter 6 where /bin/sh is `bash'.

• Bison is missing from the Host Requirements. This is needed for Bash in section 5.14. Version 1.875 is the minimum required version of Bison.

• The first pass of Binutils may fail to build with /bin/ld: unrecognized option '--hash-style=both' on newer hosts (e.g. Fedora Core 6). This can be fixed by changing the Binutils configure command to CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../binutils-2.16.1/configure [configure parameters] and, similarly, the GCC pass 1 configure command to CC="gcc -B/usr/bin/" ../gcc-3.4.3/configure [configure parameters]

• In section 7.6 Configuring the Linux Console, it is suggested to look in the /usr/share/kbd directory for valid fonts and keymaps. The directory should be /lib/kbd as configured in the kbd package in section 6.42.