%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 Display Wrap 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 - 11 KB: Inetutils Kernel Headers Patch - 1 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: IPRoute2 Disable DB Patch - 1 KB: Man 80-Columns Patch - 1 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: Readline Display Wrap Patch - 1 KB: Sysklogd Kernel Headers Patch - 3 KB: Sysklogd Signal Handling Patch - 1 KB: Sysvinit /proc Title Length Patch - 1 KB: Texinfo Segfault Patch - 1 KB: Util-Linux Sfdisk Patch - 1 KB: Zlib Security Patch - 1KB: 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.