%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: Bzip2 Bzgrep Security Fixes Patch - 1 KB: Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1 KB: Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 110 KB: Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 13 KB: Coreutils Uname Patch - 4 KB: Diffutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 18 KB: Expect Spawn Patch - 7 KB: Gawk Segfault Patch - 1 KB: GCC Specs Patch - 14 KB: Glibc Linux Types Patch - 1.1 KB: Grep RedHat Fixes Patch - 56 KB: Groff Debian Patch - 360 KB: Gzip Security Patch - 2 KB: Inetutils GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 2 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - 1 KB: Kbd GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB: Linux kernel UTF-8 Composing Patch - 11 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 4 KB: Ncurses Fixes Patch - 9 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: Readline Upstream Fixes Patch - 4 KB: Sysklogd 8-Bit Cleanness Patch - 1 KB: Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 27 KB: Tar GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB: Tar Security Fixes Patch - 4 KB: Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB: Texinfo Multibyte Fixes Patch - 1 KB: Texinfo Tempfile Fix Patch - 2 KB: Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 3 KB: 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.