A quick thought, and I apologize if this has been discussed already
but I was not able to find any previous mention of this issue.
Section 6.5 (LFS 7.2) says "Directories are, by default, created with
permission mode 755" - this is only true if root umask is set
appropriately (022). It would be
kernel commit f80a3f62383bf673c310926d55142d51f118926d
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/8/233) removes if_strip.h which breaks
the Metricom radio support compilation in Net-tools-CSV_20101030
(lib/strip.c). This commit is in the latest 3.6 kernel.
below switches default compilation of that to "no"
