%general-entities; ]> Coreutils temporary system Coreutils has some issues when cross-compiling. So we define the items cross-compiling doesn't like: echo "ac_cv_func_setvbuf_reversed=yes" >> config.cache Prepare Coreutils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools --cache-file=config.cache \ --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} When the uname patch was applied. A change was made to uname.c. This change is causing the man Makefile to try and regenerate the man page for uname. Since the compiled uname can not be executed the build will fail. The following command gives the uname man page a newer timestamp then uname.c. touch man/uname.1 Compile the package: make Install the package: make install