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-4.3-branch_update-2.patch
MD5 sum: 64c6b5961f538a6b3d4c92f5c65ce51a
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/coreutils-8.22-uname-1.patch
MD5 sum: 6eeba217c88ec83b807e305e594fe13d
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/coreutils-8.22-noman-1.patch
MD5 sum: 6ed8f515391580e51f170a32af6fc7b9
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/gcc-4.8.2-branch_update-2.patch
MD5 sum: 30b9b9e35cb742edf380b0c05c9a5879
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/iana-etc-2.30-numbers_update-20140202-2.patch.xz
MD5 sum: b0e7051fef0b3ba064209a5f3d23bd2a
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/iputils-s20121221-fixes-2.patch
MD5 sum: c2344acdd81607685886f617da7d66e0
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/mpfr-3.1.2-fixes-3.patch
MD5 sum: 34cec761c2e53658aad1214d77b7f184
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/ncurses-5.9-bash_fix-1.patch
MD5 sum: c6f7f2ab0ebaf7721ebeb266641352db
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/ncurses-5.9-branch_update-4.patch
MD5 sum: c2b2dc2d31b02c218359e6218f12a72c
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/perl-5.18.2-libc-1.patch
MD5 sum: 0959d8c1d370ce152b0d2a6df5ccfd7e
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/readline-6.3-branch_update-2.patch
MD5 sum: 72a60fac6699ee42f99ec78a5d74e4e1
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/sysvinit-2.88dsf-tools_updates-1.patch
MD5 sum: c3f6981c46868b68bfd58921570ea51f
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/tar-1.27.1-manpage-1.patch
MD5 sum: 68c86c67e67a5c074872a293818f361d
Download: http://patches.cross-lfs.org/dev/vim-7.4-branch_update-3.patch
MD5 sum: e7d43252db0a9c00faf2785f9a167516
Total size of these patches: about 8 MB
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.