Install Bzip2 by running the following commands: make CC="gcc -static -s" && make PREFIX=$LFS/static install Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system it's worth mentioning that a patch for Tar can be downloaded which enables the tar program to compress and uncompress using bzip2/bunzip2 easily. With a plain tar, you have to use constructions like bzcat file.tar.bz | tar -xv or tar --use-compress-prog=bunzip2 -xvf file.tar.bz2 to use bzip2 and bunzip2 with tar. This patch provides the -j option so you can unpack a bzip2'ed archive with tar -xvfj file.tar.bz2. Applying this patch will be mentioned later on when the Tar package is installed.