%general-entities; ]> Needed Patches In addition to the packages, several patches are also required. These patches correct any mistakes in the packages that should be fixed by the maintainer. The patches also make small modifications to make the packages easier to work with. The following patches will be needed to build an LFS system: Bash Fixes Patch - 2.3 KB: Binutils Posix Patch - 4.9 KB: Bzip2 Bzgrep Security Fixes Patch - 1.3 KB: Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1.7 KB: Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 13 KB: Expect Spawn Patch - 6.9 KB: Flex Brokenness Patch - 157 KB: Gawk Segfault Patch - 1.3 KB: GCC Cross Search Paths Patch - 2 KB: GCC Posix Patch - 8.6 KB: Glibc Disable linking with libgcc_eh.a - 1 KB: Glibc Localedef Segfault - 1.9 KB: Gzip Security Fix Patch - 2 KB: Inetutils GCC 4.x Fixes Patch - 1.3 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4.1 KB: KBD GCC 4.x Fixes Patch - 1.5 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3.6 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1.1 KB: Perl Sprintf Vulnerability Patch - 1.1 KB: Readline Fixes Patch - 1.7 KB: Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 28 KB: Tar GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1.2 KB: Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB: Texinfo Tempfile Fix Patch - 2.2 KB: Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 2.8 KB: Util-linux GCC 4.x Patch - 1 KB: Zlib fPIC Patch - 3.2 KB: In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of optional patches created by the LFS community. These optional patches solve minor problems or enable functionality that is not enabled by default. Feel free to peruse the patches database located at and acquire any additional patches to suit the system needs.