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+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
<sect2>
<title>Installing Findutils</title>
-<para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
-install it.</para>
+<para>The Findutils package is quite old and it has problems compiling
+against newer Glibc versions (Glibc-2.0.x and up). You need to apply the
+patch that fixes some variable conflicts you'd otherwise end up
+with:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>Install Findutils by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>Install Findutils by running the following:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
-CPPFLAGS="-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2" \
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static &amp;&amp;
-make &amp;&amp;
+<para><screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS="-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2" \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static
+make
make install</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>