Linux From Scratch

Linux From Scratch Version 6.8 Created by Gerard Beekmans

Edited by Matthew Burgess and Bruce Dubbs

Copyright © 1999-2011 Gerard Beekmans

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword

Audience

LFS Target Architectures

LFS and Standards

Rationale for Packages in the Book

Prerequisites

Host System Requirements

Typography

Structure

Errata

I. Introduction

1. Introduction

How to Build an LFS System What's new since the last release Changelog Resources Help

II. Preparing for the Build

2. Preparing a New Partition

Introduction Creating a New Partition Creating a File System on the Partition Mounting the New Partition

3. Packages and Patches

Introduction All Packages Needed Patches

4. Final Preparations

About $LFS Creating the $LFS/tools Directory Adding the LFS User Setting Up the Environment About SBUs About the Test Suites

5. Constructing a Temporary System

Introduction Toolchain Technical Notes General Compilation Instructions Binutils-2.21 - Pass 1 GCC-4.5.2 - Pass 1 Linux-2.6.37 API Headers Glibc-2.13 Adjusting the Toolchain Binutils-2.21 - Pass 2 GCC-4.5.2 - Pass 2 Tcl-8.5.9 Expect-5.45 DejaGNU-1.4.4 Ncurses-5.7 Bash-4.2 Bzip2-1.0.6 Coreutils-8.10 Diffutils-3.0 File-5.05 Findutils-4.4.2 Gawk-3.1.8 Gettext-0.18.1.1 Grep-2.7 Gzip-1.4 M4-1.4.15 Make-3.82 Patch-2.6.1 Perl-5.12.3 Sed-4.2.1 Tar-1.25 Texinfo-4.13a Xz-5.0.1 Stripping

Changing Ownership

III. Building the LFS System

6. Installing Basic System Software

Introduction Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems Package Management Entering the Chroot Environment Creating Directories Creating Essential Files and Symlinks Linux-2.6.37 API Headers Man-pages-3.32 Glibc-2.13 Re-adjusting the Toolchain Zlib-1.2.5 Binutils-2.21 GMP-5.0.1 MPFR-3.0.0 MPC-0.8.2 GCC-4.5.2 Sed-4.2.1 Pkg-config-0.25 Ncurses-5.7 Util-linux-2.19 E2fsprogs-1.41.14 Coreutils-8.10 Iana-Etc-2.30 M4-1.4.15 Bison-2.4.3 Procps-3.2.8 Grep-2.7 Readline-6.2 Bash-4.2 Libtool-2.4 GDBM-1.8.3 Inetutils-1.8 Perl-5.12.3 Autoconf-2.68 Automake-1.11.1 Bzip2-1.0.6 Diffutils-3.0 Gawk-3.1.8 File-5.05 Findutils-4.4.2 Flex-2.5.35 Gettext-0.18.1.1 Groff-1.21 GRUB-1.98 Gzip-1.4 IPRoute2-2.6.37 Kbd-1.15.2 Less-436 Make-3.82 Xz-5.0.1 Man-DB-2.5.9 Module-Init-Tools-3.12 Patch-2.6.1 Psmisc-22.13 Shadow-4.1.4.3 Sysklogd-1.5 Sysvinit-2.88dsf Tar-1.25 Texinfo-4.13a Udev-166 Vim-7.3 About Debugging Symbols Stripping Again Cleaning Up

7. Setting Up System Bootscripts

Introduction LFS-Bootscripts-20100627 How Do These Bootscripts Work? Configuring the setclock Script Configuring the Linux Console Configuring the sysklogd Script Creating the /etc/inputrc File The Bash Shell Startup Files Device and Module Handling on an LFS System Creating Custom Symlinks to Devices Configuring the localnet Script Customizing the /etc/hosts File Configuring the network Script

8. Making the LFS System Bootable

Introduction Creating the /etc/fstab File Linux-2.6.37 Using GRUB to Set Up the Boot Process

9. The End

The End Get Counted Rebooting the System What Now? IV. Appendices A. Acronyms and Terms B. Acknowledgments C. Dependencies D. Boot and sysconfig scripts version-20100627 /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions /etc/rc.d/init.d/mountkernfs /etc/rc.d/init.d/consolelog /etc/rc.d/init.d/modules /etc/rc.d/init.d/udev /etc/rc.d/init.d/swap /etc/rc.d/init.d/setclock /etc/rc.d/init.d/checkfs /etc/rc.d/init.d/mountfs /etc/rc.d/init.d/udev_retry /etc/rc.d/init.d/cleanfs /etc/rc.d/init.d/console /etc/rc.d/init.d/localnet /etc/rc.d/init.d/sysctl /etc/rc.d/init.d/sysklogd /etc/rc.d/init.d/network /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendsignals /etc/rc.d/init.d/reboot /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt /etc/rc.d/init.d/template /etc/sysconfig/rc /etc/sysconfig/modules /etc/sysconfig/createfiles /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifup /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifdown /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services/ipv4-static /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services/ipv4-static-route E. Udev configuration rules 55-lfs.rules F. LFS Licenses Creative Commons License The MIT License Index