%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 Avoid Wcontinued Patch - 1 KB: Bash Various Fixes - 23 KB: Binutils Build From Host Running Gcc4 Patch - 2 KB: Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1 KB: Bzip2 Bzgrep Security Fixes Patch - 1 KB: Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 15 KB: Coreutils Uname Patch - 4 KB: Expect Spawn Patch - 7 KB: Flex Brokenness Patch - 156 KB: GCC Linkonce Patch - 12 KB: GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB: GCC Specs Patch - 14 KB: Glibc Rtld Search Dirs Patch - 1 KB: Glibc Fix Testsuite Patch - 1 KB: Gzip Security Patch - 2 KB: Inetutils Kernel Headers Patch - 1 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: IPRoute2 Disable DB Patch - 1 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: Readline Fixes Patch - 7 KB: Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 27 KB: Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB: Texinfo Tempfile Fix Patch - 2 KB: Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 3 KB: Util-linux Umount Patch - 1 KB: Vim Security Patch - 8 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.