%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 Upstream Fixes Patch - 18 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &bash-fixes-patch-md5; Bzip2 Bzgrep Security Fixes Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &bzip2-bzgrep-patch-md5; Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &bzip2-docs-patch-md5; Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 110 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &coreutils-i18n-patch-md5; Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 13 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &coreutils-suppress-patch-md5; Coreutils Uname Patch - 4 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &coreutils-uname-patch-md5; Diffutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 18 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &diffutils-i18n-patch-md5; Expect Spawn Patch - 7 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &expect-spawn-patch-md5; Gawk Segfault Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &gawk-segfault-patch-md5; GCC Specs Patch - 14 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &gcc-specs-patch-md5; Glibc Linux Types Patch - 1.1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &glibc-linux_types-patch-md5; Grep RedHat Fixes Patch - 56 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &grep-fixes-patch-md5; Groff Debian Patch - 360 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &groff-debian-patch-md5; Gzip Security Patch - 2 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &gzip-security_fix-patch-md5; Inetutils GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 2 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch-md5; Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &inetutils-man_pages-patch-md5; Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &kbd-backspace-patch-md5; Kbd GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch-md5; Linux kernel UTF-8 Composing Patch - 11 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &linux-utf8-patch-md5; Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 4 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &mktemp-tempfile-patch-md5; Ncurses Fixes Patch - 9 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &ncurses-fixes-patch-md5; Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &perl-libc-patch-md5; Readline Upstream Fixes Patch - 4 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &readline-fixes-patch-md5; Sysklogd 8-Bit Cleanness Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &sysklogd-8bit-patch-md5; Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 27 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &sysklogd-fixes-patch-md5; Tar GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &tar-gcc4_fix-patch-md5; Tar Security Fixes Patch - 4 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &tar-security_fixes-patch-md5; Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &tar-sparse_fix-patch-md5; Texinfo Multibyte Fixes Patch - 1 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &texinfo-multibyte-patch-md5; Texinfo Tempfile Fix Patch - 2 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch-md5; Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 3 KB: Download: MD5 sum: &util-linux-cramfs-patch-md5; 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.