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:
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/automake-1.14-test-1.patch
MD5 sum: 1bc501443baee55bca4d6552ed18a757
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/bash-4.2-fixes-12.patch
MD5 sum: 419f95c173596aea47a23d922598977a
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/bzip2-1.0.6-install_docs-1.patch
MD5 sum: 6a5ac7e89b791aae556de0f745916f7f
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/coreutils-8.21-i18n-1.patch
MD5 sum: ada0ea6e1c00c4b7e0d634f49827943e
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/kbd-1.15.5-backspace-1.patch
MD5 sum: f75cca16a38da6caa7d52151f7136895
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/make-3.82-upstream_fixes-3.patch
MD5 sum: 95027ab5b53d01699845d9b7e1dc878d
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/perl-5.18.1-libc-1.patch
MD5 sum: daf5c64fd7311e924966842680535f8f
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/readline-6.2-fixes-1.patch
MD5 sum: 3c185f7b76001d3d0af614f6f2cd5dfa
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.4-rc2/texinfo-5.1-test-1.patch
MD5 sum: c50d9319a471b6ebd98900b852f5fb38
Total size of these patches: about 222.6 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.