Linux From Scratch - Version 11.3

Part V. Appendices

C. Dependencies

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

Installation depends on: Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Attr and Glibc
Test suite depends on: Automake, Diffutils, Findutils, and Libtool
Must be installed before: Coreutils, Sed, Tar, and Vim
Optional dependencies: None

Attr

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Automake, Diffutils, Findutils, and Libtool
Must be installed before: Acl and Libcap
Optional dependencies: None

Autoconf

Installation depends on: Bash, Coreutils, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash, Coreutils, Grep, M4, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Test suite depends on: Automake, Diffutils, Findutils, GCC, and Libtool
Must be installed before: Automake
Optional dependencies: Emacs

Automake

Installation depends on: Autoconf, Bash, Coreutils, Gettext, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash, Coreutils, Grep, M4, Sed, and Texinfo
Test suite depends on: Binutils, Bison, Bzip2, DejaGNU, Diffutils, Expect, Findutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Gzip, Libtool, and Tar
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Bash

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Readline, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc, Ncurses, and Readline
Test suite depends on: Expect and Shadow
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Xorg

Bc

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Readline
Required at runtime: Glibc, Ncurses, and Readline
Test suite depends on: Gawk
Must be installed before: Linux
Optional dependencies: None

Binutils

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, File, Flex, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed, Texinfo, and Zlib
Required at runtime: Glibc and Zlib
Test suite depends on: DejaGNU and Expect
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Elfutils and Jansson

Bison

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils, Findutils, and Flex
Must be installed before: Kbd and Tar
Optional dependencies: Doxygen

Bzip2

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Patch
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: File
Optional dependencies: None

Check

Installation depends on: Gawk, GCC, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash and Gawk
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Coreutils

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep, Libcap, Make, OpenSSL, Patch, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils, E2fsprogs, Findutils, Shadow, and Util-linux
Must be installed before: Bash, Diffutils, Eudev, Findutils, and Man-DB
Optional dependencies: Expect.pm and IO::Tty

DejaGNU

Installation depends on: Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, Expect, GCC, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Expect and Bash
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Diffutils

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Perl
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

E2fsprogs

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Make, Sed, Texinfo, and Util-linux
Required at runtime: Glibc and Util-linux
Test suite depends on: Procps-ng and Psmisc
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Eudev

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gperf, Make, Sed, and Util-linux
Required at runtime: Glibc, Kmod, Xz, Util-linux, and Zlib.
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Expat

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: Python and XML::Parser
Optional dependencies: None

Expect

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Tcl
Required at runtime: Glibc and Tcl
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Tk

File

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bzip2, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Xz, and Zlib
Required at runtime: Glibc, Bzip2, Xz, and Zlib
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: libseccomp

Findutils

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash and Glibc
Test suite depends on: DejaGNU, Diffutils, and Expect
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Flex

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash, Glibc, and M4
Test suite depends on: Bison and Gawk
Must be installed before: Binutils, IProute2, Kbd, Kmod, and Man-DB
Optional dependencies: None

Gawk

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep, Make, MPFR, Patch, Readline, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash, Glibc, and Mpfr
Test suite depends on: Diffutils
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: libsigsegv

GCC

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep, M4, Make, MPC, MPFR, Patch, Perl, Sed, Tar, Texinfo, and Zstd
Required at runtime: Bash, Binutils, Glibc, Mpc, and Python
Test suite depends on: DejaGNU, Expect, and Shadow
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: GNAT and ISL

GDBM

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Grep, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Bash, Glibc, and Readline
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Gettext

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Acl, Bash, Gcc, and Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils, Perl, and Tcl
Must be installed before: Automake and Bison
Optional dependencies: None

Glibc

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Grep, Gzip, Linux API Headers, Make, Perl, Python, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: None
Test suite depends on: File
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

GMP

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: GCC and Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: MPFR and GCC
Optional dependencies: None

Gperf

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, and Make
Required at runtime: GCC and Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils and Expect
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Grep

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Gawk
Must be installed before: Man-DB
Optional dependencies: PCRE2 and libsigsegv

Groff

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: GCC, Glibc, and Perl
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: Man-DB and Perl
Optional dependencies: ghostscript and Uchardet

GRUB

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, Texinfo, and Xz
Required at runtime: Bash, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Xz, and Sed.
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Gzip

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash and Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils and Less
Must be installed before: Man-DB
Optional dependencies: None

Iana-Etc

Installation depends on: Coreutils
Required at runtime: None
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: Perl
Optional dependencies: None

Inetutils

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Sed, Texinfo, and Zlib
Required at runtime: GCC, Glibc, Ncurses, and Readline
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: Tar
Optional dependencies: None

Intltool

Installation depends on: Bash, Gawk, Glibc, Make, Perl, Sed, and XML::Parser
Required at runtime: Autoconf, Automake, Bash, Glibc, Grep, Perl, and Sed
Test suite depends on: Perl
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

IProute2

Installation depends on: Bash, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Glibc, Make, Libcap, Libelf, Linux API Headers, and Zlib
Required at runtime: Bash, Coreutils, Glibc, Libcap, Libelf, and Zlib
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Berkeley DB and iptables

Kbd

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Check, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Gzip, Make, Patch, and Sed
Required at runtime: Bash, Coreutils, and Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Kmod

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Gzip, Make, OpenSSL, Pkg-config, Sed, Xz, and Zlib
Required at runtime: Glibc, Xz, and Zlib
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: Eudev
Optional dependencies: None

Less

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc and Ncurses
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: Gzip
Optional dependencies: PCRE2 or PCRE

Libcap

Installation depends on: Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Perl, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: IProute2 and Shadow
Optional dependencies: Linux-PAM

Libelf

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, and Make
Required at runtime: Glibc and Zlib
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: IProute2 and Linux
Optional dependencies: None

Libffi

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: DejaGnu
Must be installed before: Python
Optional dependencies: None

Libpipeline

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Check
Must be installed before: Man-DB
Optional dependencies: None

Libtool

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Autoconf, Automake, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, File, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Test suite depends on: Autoconf, Automake, and Findutils
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Linux

Installation depends on: Bash, Bc, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Kmod, Libelf, Make, Ncurses, OpenSSL, Perl, and Sed
Required at runtime: None
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: cpio and LLVM (with Clang)

Linux API Headers

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Findutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Make, Perl, and Sed
Required at runtime: None
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

M4

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Bash and Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils
Must be installed before: Autoconf and Bison
Optional dependencies: libsigsegv

Make

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Perl and Procps-ng
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Guile

Man-DB

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bzip2, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, GDBM, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Groff, Gzip, Less, Libpipeline, Make, Sed, and Xz
Required at runtime: Bash, GDBM, Groff, Glibc, Gzip, Less, Libpipeline, and Zlib
Test suite depends on: Util-linux
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: libseccomp and po4a

Man-Pages

Installation depends on: Bash, Coreutils, and Make
Required at runtime: None
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Meson

Installation depends on: Ninja and Python
Required at runtime: Python
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

MPC

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, GMP, Make, MPFR, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc, GMP, and MPFR
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: GCC
Optional dependencies: None

MPFR

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, GMP, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc and GMP
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: Gawk and GCC
Optional dependencies: None

Ncurses

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: Bash, GRUB, Inetutils, Less, Procps-ng, Psmisc, Readline, Texinfo, Util-linux, and Vim
Optional dependencies: None

Ninja

Installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, and Python
Required at runtime: GCC and Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: Meson
Optional dependencies: Asciidoc, Doxygen, Emacs, and re2c

OpenSSL

Installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Make, and Perl
Required at runtime: Glibc and Perl
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: Coreutils, Kmod, and Linux
Optional dependencies: None

Patch

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Ed

Perl

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, GDBM, Glibc, Grep, Groff, Make, Sed, and Zlib
Required at runtime: GDBM and Glibc
Test suite depends on: Iana-Etc, Less. and Procps-ng
Must be installed before: Autoconf
Optional dependencies: Berkeley DB

Pkg-config

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: Kmod
Optional dependencies: Glib2

Procps-ng

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Ncurses
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: DejaGNU
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Psmisc

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc and Ncurses
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Python

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Expat, GCC, Gdbm, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Libffi, Make, Ncurses, OpenSSL, Sed, and Util-linux
Required at runtime: Bzip2, Expat, Gdbm, Glibc, Libffi, Ncurses, OpenSSL, and Zlib
Test suite depends on: GDB and Valgrind
Must be installed before: Ninja
Optional dependencies: Berkeley DB, libnsl, SQLite, and Tk

Readline

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Glibc and Ncurses
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: Bash, Bc, and Gawk
Optional dependencies: None

Sed

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Acl, Attr, and Glibc
Test suite depends on: Diffutils and Gawk
Must be installed before: E2fsprogs, File, Libtool, and Shadow
Optional dependencies: None

Shadow

Installation depends on: Acl, Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Libcap, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: Coreutils
Optional dependencies: CrackLib and Linux-PAM

Sysklogd

Installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Patch
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Sysvinit

Installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Tar

Installation depends on: Acl, Attr, Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Inetutils, Make, Sed, and Texinfo
Required at runtime: Acl, Attr, Bzip2, Glibc, Gzip, and Xz
Test suite depends on: Autoconf, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, and Gzip
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Tcl

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc and Zlib
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Texinfo

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc and Ncurses
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

Util-linux

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Eudev, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, and Zlib
Required at runtime: Glibc, Ncurses, Readline, and Zlib
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Libcap-NG, Linux-PAM and smartmontools

Vim

Installation depends on: Acl, Attr, Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed
Required at runtime: Acl, Attr, Glibc, Python, Ncurses, and Tcl
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: Xorg, GTK+2, LessTif, Ruby, and GPM

wheel

Installation depends on: Python
Required at runtime: Python
Test suite depends on: No test suite available
Must be installed before: None
Optional dependencies: None

XML::Parser

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Expat, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Perl
Required at runtime: Expat, Glibc, and Perl
Test suite depends on: Perl
Must be installed before: Intltool
Optional dependencies: None

Xz

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, and Make
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: Eudev, File, GRUB, Kmod, and Man-DB
Optional dependencies: None

Zlib

Installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: File, Kmod, Perl, and Util-linux
Optional dependencies: None

Zstd

Installation depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Gzip, Make, and Xz
Required at runtime: Glibc
Test suite depends on: None
Must be installed before: GCC
Optional dependencies: LZ4