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: patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch Prepare Findutils to be compiled: CPPFLAGS="-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2" \     LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static Continue with compiling the package: make And finish off installing the package: make install