Hi Folks; Have proceeded with LFSMake into the stage1 installing glibc-2.1.3 and have run into the "invalid character 45" problem. Cannot just apply the "glibc-2.1.3.patch" to "glibc-2.1.3" due to the way LFSMake starts from the beginning each time "make stage1" is started. There needs to be a modification to the LFSMake program to allow the patch to be installed from within the program. Not being a programmer leaves things hanging until someone can come up with a fix that can be applied. TIA Clay Stapleton