Below is a list of changes specifics for this architecture made since the previous release of the book. For general changes see Master Changelog,
Changelog Entries:
August 19, 2006
[ken] - log the results of 'make check' in glibc multilib.
August 15, 2006
[ken] - Fix textrel test for 32-bit glibc.
August 13, 2006
[ken] - Add check to 32-bit bzip2, thanks to Jonathan Davis.
August 6, 2006
[ken] - Fix accidental breakage in the 64-bit libtool text. This fixes ticket #83.
July 29, 2006
[ken] - Get e2fsprogs cross-compiling from a host using long long for 64-bit types.
July 23, 2006
[ken] - Fix the 32-bit libtool testsuite.
July 22, 2006
[ken] - Add binutils patch to fix the ld visibility tests.
July 21, 2006
[ken] - Corrected gcc instructions for final-system to use /usr/lib64 and not disable multilib.
June 18, 2006
[ken] - Use the mktemp_configure patch, originally from mips, instead of updating config.{guess,sub} from installed versions.
[ken] - Fix up the bootable chapter for hfsutils, mktemp, powerpc-utils, and yaboot. This should now work.
June 8, 2006
[ken] - Add an appendix to discuss OF and Mac issues.
May 31, 2006
[ken] - Replace the tests in choose.xml with a ppc64-specific test and explain what it tests for. Fixes ticket 37.
May 22, 2006
[ken] - Add missing CFLAGS in yaboot's make, with yet another important box for it, and log the output from yaboot's install so that we can test it for warning messages from ld which show it is broken.
May 16, 2006
[ken] - Add gcc nof patch I had forgotten was not in the book.
May 10, 2006
[ken] - Make yaboot build in the final system.
May 9, 2006
[ken] - Confirmed powerpc-utils is ok, removed the warning from it.
May 5, 2006
[ken] - Convert the final-system chapter to multilib. Note that powerpc-utils and/or yaboot are broken.
April 30, 2006
[ken] - More multilib versions of pages for chrooting and in testsuite tools.
April 28, 2006
[ken] - Fix the glibc build for new requirements from the version upgrade, and to use headers from kernel 2.6.15 or later which merged asm-ppc and asm-ppc64 to asm-powerpc, plus cosmetic fix to use the multilib version of choose.xml.
April 27, 2006
[ken] - Remove references to /usr/local from yaboot man pages.
April 20, 2006
[jim] - Added asm-ppc to the Linux Headers.
March 29, 2006
[jhuntwork] - Use 'powerpc' as value for ARCH in kernel cross-build.
February 8, 2006
[jhuntwork] - Finalized boot section, minus the bootloader..
February 2, 2006
[jhuntwork] - Fix linux-libc-headers to use multilib patch.
[jhuntwork] - Use multilib binutils.
[jhuntwork] - Finalized cross-tools section.
[jhuntwork] - Finalized temp-system section.
February 1, 2006
[jhuntwork] - Add ppc biarch patch for ppc64 multilib.
[jhuntwork] - Fixed multilib variables.
[jhuntwork] - Added a flags page in cross-tools.