%general-entities; ]> Besides all those packages, you'll also need several patches. These correct tiny mistakes in the packages that should be fixed by the maintainer, or just make some small modifications to bend things our way. You'll need the following: Patches Bash Display Wrap Patch - 1 KB: Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 16 KB: Coreutils Uname Patch - 1 KB: Expect Spawn Patch - 6 KB: Flex Brokenness Patch - 8 KB: GCC Linkonce Patch - 12KB: GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB: GCC Specs Patch - 11 KB: Inetutils Kernel Headers Patch - 1 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: IPRoute2 Disable DB Patch - 1 KB: Man 80-Columns Patch - 1 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: Readline Display Wrap Patch - 1KB: Sysvinit /proc Title Length Patch - 1 KB: Texinfo Seg-Fault Patch - 1 KB: Udev Etcdir Patch - 1 KB: Util-Linux Sfdisk Patch - 1 KB: Zlib Security Patch - 1KB: In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of optional ones created by the LFS community. Most of these solve slight problems, or enable some functionality that's not enabled by default. Feel free to examine the patches database, located at , and pick any additional patches you wish to use.