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## 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/cvs/bash-2.05b-2.patch
Bison Attribute Patch - 2 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/bison-1.875-attribute.patch
Coreutils Hostname Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/coreutils-5.2.1-hostname-1.patch
Coreutils Uname Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/coreutils-5.2.1-uname-1.patch
Ed Mkstemp Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/ed-0.2-mkstemp.patch
Expect Spawn Patch - 6 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/expect-5.41.0-spawn-1.patch
GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/gcc-3.3.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch
GCC Specs Patch - 11 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/gcc-3.3.3-specs-1.patch
GCC-2 Patch - 16 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/gcc-2.95.3-2.patch
GCC-2 No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/gcc-2.95.3-no-fixinc.patch
GCC-2 Return-Type Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/gcc-2.95.3-returntype-fix.patch
Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/inetutils-1.4.2-no_server_man_pages-1.patch
Kbd More-Programs Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/kbd-1.12-more-programs-1.patch
Man 80-Columns Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/man-1.5m2-80cols.patch
Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/mktemp-1.5-add-tempfile.patch
Net-tools Mii-Tool-Gcc33 Patch - 2 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/net-tools-1.60-miitool-gcc33-1.patch
Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/perl-5.8.4-libc-1.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.

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