%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: Automake Test Suite Patch - &automake-test-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &automake-test-patch-md5; Bash Upstream Fixes Patch - &bash-fixes-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &bash-fixes-patch-md5; Berkeley DB Upstream Fixes Patch - &db-fixes-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &db-fixes-patch-md5; Binutils GCC 4.3 Patch - &binutils-gcc-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &binutils-gcc-patch-md5; Binutils Texinfo Version Patch - &binutils-configure-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &binutils-configure-patch-md5; Bzip2 Documentation Patch - &bzip2-docs-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &bzip2-docs-patch-md5; Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - &coreutils-i18n-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &coreutils-i18n-patch-md5; Coreutils Old Kernel Patch - &coreutils-old-kernel-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &coreutils-old-kernel-patch-md5; Coreutils Uname Patch - &coreutils-uname-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &coreutils-uname-patch-md5; Diffutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - &diffutils-i18n-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &diffutils-i18n-patch-md5; Expect Spawn Patch - &expect-spawn-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &expect-spawn-patch-md5; Expect Tcl Patch - &expect-tcl-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &expect-tcl-patch-md5; Glibc Iconv Test Fixes Patch - &glibc-iconv-test-fixes-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &glibc-iconv-test-fixes-patch-md5; Glibc Ildoubl Test Fix Patch - &glibc-ildoubl-test-fix-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &glibc-ildoubl-test-fix-patch-md5; Grep Debian Patch - &grep-debian-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &grep-debian-patch-md5; Grep Upstream Fixes Patch - &grep-fixes-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &grep-fixes-patch-md5; Groff Debian Patch - &groff-debian-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &groff-debian-patch-md5; Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - &inetutils-man_pages-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &inetutils-man_pages-patch-md5; Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - &kbd-backspace-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &kbd-backspace-patch-md5; Module-init-tools Man-Pages Patch - &module-init-manpages-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &module-init-manpages-patch-md5; Ncurses Coverity Patch - &ncurses-coverity-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &ncurses-coverity-patch-md5; Perl Consolidated Patch - &perl-consolidated-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &perl-consolidated-patch-md5; Procps Watch Patch - &procps-watch-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &procps-watch-patch-md5; Readline Fixes Patch - &readline-fixes-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &readline-fixes-patch-md5; Vim Fixes Patch - &vim-fixes-patch-size;: Download: MD5 sum: &vim-fixes-patch-md5; Total size of these patches: about 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.