4.3. Needed patches

Besides all those packages, you'll also need several patches. These correct tiny mistakes in the packages that should be fixed by the maintainer, or just make some small modifications to bend things our way. You'll need the following:

Bash Patch - 7 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/bash-2.05b-2.patch

Bison Attribute Patch - 2 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/bison-1.875-attribute.patch

Coreutils Hostname Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/coreutils-5.0-hostname-2.patch

Coreutils Uname Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/coreutils-5.0-uname.patch

Ed Mkstemp Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/ed-0.2-mkstemp.patch

Expect Spawn Patch - 6 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/expect-5.39.0-spawn.patch

Gawk Libexecdir Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gawk-3.1.3-libexecdir.patch

GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gcc-3.3.1-no_fixincludes-2.patch

GCC Specs Patch - 10 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gcc-3.3.1-specs-2.patch

GCC Suppress-Libiberty Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gcc-3.3.1-suppress-libiberty.patch

GCC-2 Patch - 16 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gcc-2.95.3-2.patch

GCC-2 No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gcc-2.95.3-no-fixinc.patch

GCC-2 Return-Type Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch

Glibc Sscanf Patch - 2 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/glibc-2.3.2-sscanf-1.patch

Grub Gcc33 Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/grub-0.93-gcc33-1.patch

Kbd More-Programs Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/kbd-1.08-more-programs.patch

Man 80-Columns Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-80cols.patch

Man Manpath Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-manpath.patch

Man Pager Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/man-1.5m2-pager.patch

Ncurses Etip Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch

Ncurses Vsscanf Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch

Net-tools Mii-Tool-Gcc33 Patch - 2 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/net-tools-1.60-miitool-gcc33-1.patch

Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/perl-5.8.0-libc-3.patch

Procps Locale Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/procps-3.1.11-locale-fix.patch

Shadow Newgrp Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/shadow-4.0.3-newgrp-fix.patch 

Zlib Vsnprintf Patch - 10 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/5.0/zlib-1.1.4-vsnprintf.patch

In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of optional ones created by the LFS community. Most of these solve slight problems, or enable some functionality that's not enabled by default. Feel free to examine the patches database, located at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/, and pick any additional patches you wish to use.