lfs-book/chapter03/patches.xml

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  <title>Needed Patches</title>

  <para>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:</para>

  <variablelist role="materials">

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Bash Upstream Fixes Patch - 18 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&bash-fixes-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Bzip2 Bzgrep Security Fixes Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&bzip2-bzgrep-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&bzip2-docs-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 110 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-i18n-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 13 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-suppress-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Coreutils Uname Patch - 4 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&coreutils-uname-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Diffutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 18 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&diffutils-i18n-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Expect Spawn Patch - 7 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&expect-spawn-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Gawk Segfault Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&gawk-segfault-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>GCC Specs Patch - 14 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&gcc-specs-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Grep RedHat Fixes Patch - 56 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&grep-fixes-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Groff Debian Patch - 360 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&groff-debian-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Gzip Security Patch - 2 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&gzip-security_fix-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&kbd-backspace-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Kbd GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Inetutils GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 2 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&inetutils-man_pages-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Linux kernel UTF-8 Composing Patch - 11 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&linux-utf8-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 4 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&mktemp-tempfile-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Ncurses Fixes Patch - 9 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&ncurses-fixes-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&perl-libc-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Readline Upstream Fixes Patch - 4 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&readline-fixes-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Sysklogd 8-Bit Cleanness Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&sysklogd-8bit-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 27 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&sysklogd-fixes-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Tar GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&tar-sparse_fix-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Texinfo Multibyte Fixes Patch - 1 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&texinfo-multibyte-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>


    <varlistentry>
      <term>Texinfo Tempfile Fix Patch - 2 KB:</term>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>
      <term>Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 3 KB:</term> <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="&patches-root;&util-linux-cramfs-patch;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

  </variablelist>

  <para>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
  <ulink url="&lfs-root;patches/"/> and acquire any additional
  patches to suit the system needs.</para>

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