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 a CLFS system:
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/bash-4.0-branch_update-7.patch
MD5 sum: aecc5f2ca934fd3dc49bff1f012ef810
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/binutils-2.20-branch_update-1.patch
MD5 sum: a2341f2ce034e886fc43b109e1fee417
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/coreutils-7.6-uname-1.patch
MD5 sum: 56ad75fedac896082d96ab0bd5e6b32c
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/diffutils-2.8.7-i18n-1.patch
MD5 sum: 2e176c390bf4dca2fb088e0a16261a96
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/eglibc-2.10.1-20090825-r8873-fixes-1.patch
MD5 sum: 36593dc2394852253ff0ff1afa7f2009
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/expect-5.43.0-avoid-tcl-internals-1.patch
MD5 sum: 5661004ca23ddc9592f488142367c2f5
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/expect-5.43.0-spawn-2.patch
MD5 sum: 7706e1e8238c72eed8dc905d6f3b6aa9
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/file-5.03-cross_compile-1.patch
MD5 sum: 17956303345b8514a9c2bdc3939a21e5
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/flex-2.5.35-gcc44-1.patch
MD5 sum: a6ffbba93d034380e12110bb6d399113
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/gcc-4.4.2-branch_update-1.patch
MD5 sum: 2dbbc6f28aeaea5f3d9b91f17c36a78d
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/grep-2.5.4-i18n-1.patch
MD5 sum: 337d017202d7e3b08d428a89da3ee572
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/iputils-s20071127-fixes-2.patch
MD5 sum: 31a39902b0d343233d48ef0f3c038559
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/iputils-s20071127-manpages-2.patch
MD5 sum: fc3ceca15794cc0f9d84a43a21692aeb
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/man-1.6f-i18n-1.patch
MD5 sum: 8b189d6500461797250ae9f3e5638dd5
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/man-1.6f-new_compressors-1.patch
MD5 sum: efebe29737e80c2f6de4833182f1edb6
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/mpfr-2.4.1-branch_update-2.patch
MD5 sum: 2df45ded7bd8c5b987bb4af75ab1f21c
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/ncurses-5.7-bash_fix-1.patch
MD5 sum: c6f7f2ab0ebaf7721ebeb266641352db
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/ncurses-5.7-branch_update-20.patch
MD5 sum: 5deb073f3cd21781f593fee791d40e87
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/perl-5.10.1-libc-1.patch
MD5 sum: 7597ce482d09fe48ad0a95d26902823b
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/readline-6.0-branch_update-2.patch
MD5 sum: 1e92533f7b03e03bd0a73703d0d9cc75
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/sysvinit-2.86-fixes-1.patch
MD5 sum: 405d23896b54ca61afd53003a62592fd
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/tar-1.22-man_page-1.patch
MD5 sum: a8d01d18a3e550230302a5a52c686d25
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/tar-1.22-new_compressors-1.patch
MD5 sum: 95a38ca73a39105a5aee528471c7fcc9
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/texinfo-4.13a-new_compressors-1.patch
MD5 sum: 4ae2d3c132e21cb83b825bc691056d07
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/vim-7.2-branch_update-21.patch
MD5 sum: 68e540fbf2a06d9760a9b4d4b486b506
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/zlib-1.2.3-fPIC-2.patch
MD5 sum: b1e6644c97b04c368e11c0a1554f2efe
Total size of these patches: about 3,242.7 KB
In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of optional patches created by the CLFS 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://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/ and acquire any additional patches to suit the system needs.