%general-entities; ]> Needed patches 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: Bash Patch - 7 KB: Bison Attribute Patch - 2 KB: Coreutils Hostname Patch - 1 KB: Coreutils Uname Patch - 1 KB: Ed Mkstemp Patch - 1 KB: Expect Spawn Patch - 6 KB: GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB: GCC Specs Patch - 11 KB: GCC-2 Patch - 16 KB: GCC-2 No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB: GCC-2 Return-Type Patch - 1 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: Kbd More-Programs Patch - 1 KB: Man 80-Columns Patch - 1 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB: Net-tools Mii-Tool-Gcc33 Patch - 2 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: 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.