Wala! I created the build directory down from $LFS, (/mnt/lfs/glibc-build) where my other build dirs live, copied the tar and patch to it, untar'd the tarball, moved down to the glibc-2.5 dir and ran the patch exactly as written.
Everything that needed it got patched. In chapter 5.6, the first instruction is to apply the patch. The second is to create the build dir. For a dummy like me I was trying to run the patch on an untar'd tar. duh! Burt -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
