Hello, I tried building CLFS for PowerPC from my x86 box and the cross compile of coreutils failed. (in the temporary tools section). It looks like a recent coreutils problem. I found a thread describing the exact same failure I found (except it was cross compiling for ARM): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-10/msg00176.html So, I think there will need to be some fix added for this issue.