%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 Various Fixes - 21 KB: Bash Avoid Wcontinued 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 - 12 KB: GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB: GCC Specs Patch - 14 KB: GLIBC Syscall Patch - 11 KB: Grep RaQ2 Config Update Patch - 48 KB: Inetutils Kernel Headers Patch - 1 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: IPRoute2 Disable DB Patch - 1 KB: Linux-libc-headers RaQ2 Patch - 1 KB: Linux RaQ2 Patch - 156 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: Procps Signal 11 Patch - 1 KB: Readline Various Fixes Patch - 6.9 KB: Shadow Lastlog Fix Patch - 1 KB: Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 27 KB: Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB: Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 2 KB: Yaboot (&yaboot-version;) - 1 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.