%general-entities; ]> Every package built in LFS relies on one or more other packages in order to build and install properly. Some packages even participate in circular dependencies, that is, the first package depends on the second which in turn depends on the first. Because of these dependencies, the order in which packages are built in LFS is very important. The purpose of this page is to document the dependencies of each package built in LFS. For each package that is built, there are three, and sometimes up to five types of dependencies listed below. The first lists what other packages need to be available in order to compile and install the package in question. The second lists the packages that must be available when any programs or libraries from the package are used at runtime. The third lists what packages, in addition to those on the first list, need to be available in order to run the test suites. The fourth list of dependencies are packages that require this package to be built and installed in its final location before they are built and installed. In most cases, this is because these packages will hard code paths to binaries within their scripts. If not built in a certain order, this could result in paths of /tools/bin/[binary] being placed inside scripts installed to the final system. This is obviously not desirable. The last list of dependencies are optional packages that are not addressed in LFS, but could be useful to the user. These packages may have additional mandatory or optional dependencies of their own. For these dependencies, the recommended practice is to install them after completion of the LFS book and then go back and rebuild the LFS package. In several cases, re-installation is addressed in BLFS. Acl &dependencies; Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Attr and Glibc &testsuites; Automake, Diffutils, Findutils, and Libtool &before; Coreutils, Sed, Tar, and Vim &external; None Attr &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; Automake, Diffutils, Findutils, and Libtool &before; Acl and Libcap &external; None Autoconf &dependencies; Bash, Coreutils, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash, Coreutils, Grep, M4, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &testsuites; Automake, Diffutils, Findutils, GCC, and Libtool &before; Automake &external; Emacs Automake &dependencies; Autoconf, Bash, Coreutils, Gettext, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash, Coreutils, Grep, M4, Sed, and Texinfo &testsuites; Binutils, Bison, Bzip2, DejaGNU, Diffutils, Expect, Findutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Gzip, Libtool, and Tar &before; None &external; None Bash &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Readline, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc, Ncurses, and Readline &testsuites; Expect and Shadow &before; None &external; Xorg Bc &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, and Make &runtime; Glibc, Ncurses, and Readline &testsuites; Gawk &before; Linux &external; None Binutils &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, File, Flex, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed, Texinfo, and Zlib &runtime; Glibc and Zlib &testsuites; DejaGNU and Expect &before; None &external; Elfutils Bison &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; Diffutils, Findutils, and Flex &before; Kbd and Tar &external; Doxygen Bzip2 &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Patch &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; None &before; File &external; None Check &dependencies; Gawk, GCC, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash and Gawk &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Coreutils &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep, Libcap, Make, Patch, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; Diffutils, E2fsprogs, Findutils, Shadow, and Util-linux &before; Bash, Diffutils, Eudev, Findutils, and Man-DB &external; Expect.pm and IO::Tty DejaGNU &dependencies; Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, Expect, GCC, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Expect and Bash &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Diffutils &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; Perl &before; None &external; None E2fsprogs &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Make, Sed, Texinfo, and Util-linux &runtime; Glibc and Util-linux &testsuites; Procps-ng and Psmisc &before; None &external; None Eudev &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gperf, Make, Sed, and Util-linux &runtime; Glibc, Kmod, Xz, Util-linux, and Zlib. &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Expat &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; None &before; Python and XML::Parser &external; None Expect &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Tcl &runtime; Glibc and Tcl &testsuites; None &before; None &external; Tk File &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bzip2, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Xz, and Zlib &runtime; Glibc, Bzip2, Xz, and Zlib &testsuites; None &before; None &external; libseccomp Findutils &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash and Glibc &testsuites; DejaGNU, Diffutils, and Expect &before; None &external; None Flex &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash, Glibc, and M4 &testsuites; Bison and Gawk &before; Binutils, IProute2, Kbd, Kmod, and Man-DB &external; None Gawk &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep, Make, MPFR, Patch, Readline, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash, Glibc, and Mpfr &testsuites; Diffutils &before; None &external; libsigsegv GCC &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep, M4, Make, MPC, MPFR, Patch, Perl, Sed, Tar, Texinfo, and Zstd &runtime; Bash, Binutils, Glibc, Mpc, and Python &testsuites; DejaGNU, Expect, and Shadow &before; None &external; GNAT and ISL GDBM &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Grep, Make, and Sed &runtime; Bash, Glibc, and Readline &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Gettext &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Acl, Bash, Gcc, and Glibc &testsuites; Diffutils, Perl, and Tcl &before; Automake and Bison &external; None Glibc &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Grep, Gzip, Linux API Headers, Make, Perl, Python, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; None &testsuites; File &before; None &external; None GMP &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; GCC and Glibc &testsuites; None &before; MPFR and GCC &external; None Gperf &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, and Make &runtime; GCC and Glibc &testsuites; Diffutils and Expect &before; None &external; None Grep &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; Gawk &before; Man-DB &external; PCRE and libsigsegv Groff &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; GCC, Glibc, and Perl &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Man-DB and Perl &external; ghostscript and Uchardet GRUB &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, Texinfo, and Xz &runtime; Bash, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Xz, and Sed. &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Gzip &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash and Glibc &testsuites; Diffutils and Less &before; Man-DB &external; None Iana-Etc &dependencies; Coreutils &runtime; None &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Perl &external; None Inetutils &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Sed, Texinfo, and Zlib &runtime; GCC, Glibc, Ncurses, and Readline &testsuites; None &before; Tar &external; None Intltool &dependencies; Bash, Gawk, Glibc, Make, Perl, Sed, and XML::Parser &runtime; Autoconf, Automake, Bash, Glibc, Grep, Perl, and Sed &testsuites; Perl &before; None &external; None IProute2 &dependencies; Bash, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Glibc, Make, Libcap, Libelf, Linux API Headers, and Zlib &runtime; Bash, Coreutils, Glibc, Libcap, Libelf, and Zlib &testsuites; No test suite available &before; None &external; Berkeley DB and iptables Jinja2 &dependencies; MarkupSafe and Python &runtime; MarkupSafe and Python &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Systemd &external; None Kbd &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bison, Check, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Gzip, Make, Patch, and Sed &runtime; Bash, Coreutils, and Glibc &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Kmod &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Gzip, Make, Pkg-config, Sed, Xz, and Zlib &runtime; Glibc, Xz, and Zlib &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Eudev &external; None Less &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed &runtime; Glibc and Ncurses &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Gzip &external; PCRE Libcap &dependencies; Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Perl, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; None &before; IProute2 and Shadow &external; Linux-PAM Libelf &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, and Make &runtime; Glibc and Zlib &testsuites; None &before; IProute2 and Linux &external; None Libffi &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; DejaGnu &before; Python &external; None Libpipeline &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; Check &before; Man-DB &external; None Libtool &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Autoconf, Automake, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, File, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed &testsuites; Autoconf, Automake, and Findutils &before; None &external; None Linux &dependencies; Bash, Bc, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Kmod, Libelf, Make, Ncurses, OpenSSL, Perl, and Sed &runtime; None &testsuites; No test suite available &before; None &external; None Linux API Headers &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Findutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Make, Perl, and Sed &runtime; None &testsuites; No test suite available &before; None &external; None M4 &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Bash and Glibc &testsuites; Diffutils &before; Autoconf and Bison &external; libsigsegv Make &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; Perl and Procps-ng &before; None &external; Guile Man-DB &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Bzip2, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, GDBM, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Groff, Gzip, Less, Libpipeline, Make, Sed, and Xz &runtime; Bash, GDBM, Groff, Glibc, Gzip, Less, Libpipeline, and Zlib &testsuites; Util-linux &before; None &external; libseccomp Man-Pages &dependencies; Bash, Coreutils, and Make &runtime; None &testsuites; No test suite available &before; None &external; None MarkupSafe &dependencies; Python &runtime; Python &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Jinja2 &external; None Meson &dependencies; Ninja and Python &runtime; Python &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Systemd &external; None MPC &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, GMP, Make, MPFR, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc, GMP, and MPFR &testsuites; None &before; GCC &external; None MPFR &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, GMP, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc and GMP &testsuites; None &before; Gawk and GCC &external; None Ncurses &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Bash, GRUB, Inetutils, Less, Procps-ng, Psmisc, Readline, Texinfo, Util-linux, and Vim &external; None Ninja &dependencies; Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, and Python &runtime; GCC and Glibc &testsuites; None &before; Meson &external; Asciidoc, Doxygen, Emacs, and re2c Openssl &dependencies; Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Make, and Perl &runtime; Glibc and Perl &testsuites; None &before; Linux &external; None Patch &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc and Patch &testsuites; Diffutils &before; None &external; Ed Perl &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, GDBM, Glibc, Grep, Groff, Make, Sed, and Zlib &runtime; GDBM and Glibc &testsuites; Iana-Etc, Less. and Procps-ng &before; Autoconf &external; Berkeley DB Pkg-config &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Popt, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; None &before; Kmod &external; None Procps-ng &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Ncurses &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; DejaGNU &before; None &external; None Psmisc &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed &runtime; Glibc and Ncurses &testsuites; No test suite available &before; None &external; None Python &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Expat, GCC, Gdbm, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Libffi, Make, Ncurses, OpenSSL, Sed, and Util-linux &runtime; Bzip2, Expat, Gdbm, Glibc, Libffi, Ncurses, OpenSSL, and Zlib &testsuites; GDB and Valgrind &before; Ninja &external; Berkeley DB, SQLite, and Tk Readline &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Glibc and Ncurses &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Bash and Gawk &external; None Sed &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Acl, Attr, and Glibc &testsuites; Diffutils and Gawk &before; E2fsprogs, File, Libtool, and Shadow &external; None Shadow &dependencies; Acl, Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Libcap, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; No test suite available &before; Coreutils &external; CrackLib and Linux-PAM Sysklogd &dependencies; Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Patch &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; No test suite available &before; None &external; None Systemd &dependencies; Acl, Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Expat, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Gperf, Grep, Intltool, Jinja2, Libcap, Meson, Sed, and Util-linux &runtime; Acl, Attr, Glibc, Libcap, and Util-linux &testsuites; None &before; None &external; btrfs-progs, cURL, cryptsetup, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl-nons, elfutils, Git, gnu-efi, GnuTLS, iptables, kexec-tools, libfido2, libgcrypt, libidn2, Libmicrohttpd, libpwquality, libseccomp, libxkbcommon, libxslt, Linux-PAM, lxml, LZ4, make-ca, p11-kit, PCRE2, Polkit, qemu, qrencode, quota-tools, rsync, Sphinx, tpm2-tss, Valgrind, and zsh Sysvinit &dependencies; Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; No test suite available &before; None &external; None Tar &dependencies; Acl, Attr, Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Inetutils, Make, Sed, and Texinfo &runtime; Acl, Attr, Bzip2, Glibc, Gzip, and Xz &testsuites; Autoconf, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, and Gzip &before; None &external; None Tcl &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc and Zlib &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Texinfo &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, and Sed &runtime; Glibc and Ncurses &testsuites; None &before; None &external; None Util-linux &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Eudev, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Libcap, Make, Ncurses, Sed, and Zlib &runtime; Glibc, Libcap, Ncurses, Readline, and Zlib &testsuites; None &before; None &external; smartmontools Vim &dependencies; Acl, Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed &runtime; Acl, Attr, Glibc, Python, Ncurses, and Tcl &testsuites; None &before; None &external; Xorg, GTK+2, LessTif, Ruby, and GPM XML::Parser &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Expat, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Perl &runtime; Expat, Glibc, and Perl &testsuites; Perl &before; Intltool &external; None Xz &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, and Make &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; None &before; Eudev, File, GRUB, Kmod, and Man-DB &external; None Zlib &dependencies; Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; None &before; File, Kmod, Perl, and Util-linux &external; None Zstd &dependencies; Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Gzip, Make, and Xz &runtime; Glibc &testsuites; None &before; GCC &external; None