source: chapter03/patches.xml@ 0e3cef8

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<sect1 id="materials-patches">
<title>Needed Patches</title>
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<para>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:</para>

<variablelist role="materials">

<varlistentry>
<term>Bzip2 Bzgrep Security Fixes Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&bzip2-bzgrep-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&bzip2-docs-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 110 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&alexpatches;&coreutils-i18n-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 15 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-suppress-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Coreutils Uname Patch - 4 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-uname-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Diffutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 18 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&alexpatches;&diffutils-i18n-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Expect Spawn Patch - 7 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&expect-spawn-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Flex Brokenness Patch - 156 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&flex-fixes-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Gawk Segfault Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&gawk-segfault-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>GCC Specs Patch - 14 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&gcc-specs-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Grep RedHat Fixes Patch - 56 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&alexpatches;&grep-fixes-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Groff Debian Patch - 129 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/groff/&groff-debian-patch;"/></para>
<note><para>Groff Debian Patch (&groff-version;-&groff-patchlevel;)
may no longer be available at the
listed location. The site administrators of the master download
location occasionally remove older versions when new ones are
released. There is no alternative download location yet.</para></note>
<!-- Actually there's snapshot.debian.net, but they have hardware problems -->
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Gzip Security Patch - 2 KB:</term><listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&gzip-security_fix-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&alexpatches;&kbd-backspace-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Kbd GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Inetutils GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 2 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&inetutils-man_pages-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Linux kernel UTF-8 Composing Patch - 3 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&alexpatches;&linux-utf8-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 4 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&mktemp-tempfile-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Ncurses Fixes Patch - 9 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&alexpatches;&ncurses-fixes-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&perl-libc-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Shadow Configure Script Patch - 1KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&shadow-configure-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Sysklogd 8-Bit Cleanness Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&lfs-root;patches/downloads/sysklogd/&sysklogd-8bit-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 27 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&sysklogd-fixes-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Tar GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&tar-sparse_fix-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Texinfo Multibyte Fixes Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&alexpatches;&texinfo-multibyte-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>


<varlistentry>
<term>Texinfo Tempfile Fix Patch - 2 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 3 KB:</term> <listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;&util-linux-cramfs-patch;"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<para>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
<ulink url="&lfs-root;patches/"/> and acquire any additional
patches to suit the system needs.</para>

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