3.3. 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 Upstream Fixes Patch - 14 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/bash-4.2-fixes-3.patch

MD5 sum: 16ef261d87673ffaa6e838423d1cc4d1

Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1.6 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/bzip2-1.0.6-install_docs-1.patch

MD5 sum: 6a5ac7e89b791aae556de0f745916f7f

Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 120 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/coreutils-8.12-i18n-1.patch

MD5 sum: ced3542ba0cf7df395bb5b67c3f94f21

Coreutils Uname Patch - 1.6 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/coreutils-8.12-uname-1.patch

MD5 sum: 500481b75892e5c07e19e9953a690e54

Flex GCC-4.4.x Patch - 1 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/flex-2.5.35-gcc44-1.patch

MD5 sum: ad9109820534278c6dd0898178c0788f

GCC Cross Compile Patch - 1.8 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/gcc-4.6.1-cross_compile-1.patch

MD5 sum: 1b7886a7a4df3a48617e88a481862264

GCC Startfiles Fix Patch - 1.5 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/gcc-4.6.1-startfiles_fix-1.patch

MD5 sum: 799ef1971350d2e3c794f2123f247cc6

Glibc Bug Fixes Patch - 2.7 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/glibc-2.14-fixes-1.patch

MD5 sum: 133f204725e3487a355e1e55390a42e9

Glibc GCC Build Fix Patch - 2.5 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/glibc-2.14-gcc_fix-1.patch

MD5 sum: d1f28cb98acb9417fe52596908bbb9fd

Glibc GCC CPUID Patch - 0.8 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/glibc-2.14-cpuid-1.patch

MD5 sum: 4f110dc9c8d4754fbda841492ce796b4

Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - 12 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/kbd-1.15.2-backspace-1.patch

MD5 sum: f75cca16a38da6caa7d52151f7136895

Patch Testsuite Fix Patch - 1 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/patch-2.6.1-test_fix-1.patch

MD5 sum: c51e1a95bfc5310635d05081472c3534

Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/perl-5.14.1-libc-1.patch

MD5 sum: 23682f20b6785e97f99d33be7719c9d6

Procps HZ Errors Patch - 2.3 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/procps-3.2.8-fix_HZ_errors-1.patch

MD5 sum: 2ea4c8e9a2c2a5a291ec63c92d7c6e3b

Procps Watch Patch - 3.5 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/procps-3.2.8-watch_unicode-1.patch

MD5 sum: cd1a757e532d93662a7ed71da80e6b58

Readline Upstream Fixes Patch - 1.3 KB:

Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.0-rc1/readline-6.2-fixes-1.patch

MD5 sum: 3c185f7b76001d3d0af614f6f2cd5dfa

Total size of these patches: about 168.6 KB

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 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/ and acquire any additional patches to suit your system needs.