The programs from a statically linked Fileutils package may cause segmentation faults on certain systems, if your distribution has Glibc-2.2.3 installed. It seems to happen mostly on machines powered by an AMD CPU, but there is a case or two where an Intel system is affected as well. If your system falls in this category, apply the patch. Note that in some cases using this patch will result in not being able to compile this package at all, even when your system has an AMD CPU and has Glibc-2.2.3 (or higher) installed. If that's the case, you'll need to remove the fileutils-&fileutils-version; directory and unpack it again from the tarball before continuing. We believe this may be the case when your distribution has altered Glibc-2.2.3 somehow, but the exact details are unknown. To fix this package to compile properly on AMD/Glibc-2.2.3 machines, run the following command. Do NOT attempt this fix if you don't have Glibc-2.2.3 installed. It will more than likely result in all kinds of compilation problems. patch -Np1 -i ../fileutils-&fileutils-patch-version;.patch Prepare the package to be compiled: LDFLAGS="-static" \     ./configure --disable-nls --prefix=$LFS/static Continue with compiling the package: make And finish off installing the package: make install Once you have installed Fileutils, you can test whether the segmentation fault problem has been avoided by running $LFS/static/bin/ls. If this works, then you are OK. If not, then you need to re-do the installation with the patch if you didn't use it, or without the patch if you did use it.