On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:03 +0200, Stefan & Rebekka Wetter wrote: > Hi, > > in the lfs-book you need some patches. I wonder, why these patches are > needed? Are the upstream-sources not able to be compiled without?
Depends on the patch. Some are upstream fixes not yet in an upstream release. Others are a matter of changing things to suit the LFS build, and aren't suitable for upstream. The book generally tells you what each patch is for... Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page