Linux From Scratch - Version r12.2-19

Preface

v. LFS and Standards

The structure of LFS follows Linux standards as closely as possible. The primary standards are:

While it is possible to create a complete system that will pass the LSB certification tests “from scratch,” this can't be done without many additional packages that are beyond the scope of the LFS book. Installation instructions for some of these additional packages can be found in BLFS.

Packages supplied by LFS needed to satisfy the LSB Requirements

LSB Core:

Bash, Bc, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, File, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Man-DB, Procps, Psmisc, Sed, Shadow, SysVinit, Tar, Util-linux, Zlib

LSB Desktop:

None

LSB Languages:

Perl

LSB Imaging:

None

LSB Gtk3 and LSB Graphics (Trial Use):

None

Packages supplied by BLFS needed to satisfy the LSB Requirements

LSB Core:

At, Batch (a part of At), BLFS Bash Startup Files, Cpio, Ed, Fcrontab, LSB-Tools, NSPR, NSS, Linux-PAM, Pax, Sendmail (or Postfix or Exim), Time

LSB Desktop:

Alsa, ATK, Cairo, Desktop-file-utils, Freetype, Fontconfig, Gdk-pixbuf, Glib2, GLU, Icon-naming-utils, Libjpeg-turbo, Libxml2, Mesa, Pango, Xdg-utils, Xorg

LSB Languages:

Libxml2, Libxslt

LSB Imaging:

CUPS, Cups-filters, Ghostscript, SANE

LSB Gtk3 and LSB Graphics (Trial Use):

GTK+3

Components not supplied or optionally supplied by LFS or BLFS needed to satisfy the LSB Requirements

LSB Core:

install_initd, libcrypt.so.1 (can be provided with optional instructions for the LFS Libxcrypt package), libncurses.so.5 (can be provided with optional instructions for the LFS Ncurses package), libncursesw.so.5 (but libncursesw.so.6 is provided by the LFS Ncurses package)

LSB Desktop:

libgdk-x11-2.0.so (but libgdk-3.so is provided by the BLFS GTK+-3 package), libgtk-x11-2.0.so (but libgtk-3.so and libgtk-4.so are provided by the BLFS GTK+-3 and GTK-4 packages), libpng12.so (but libpng16.so is provided by the BLFS Libpng package), libQt*.so.4 (but libQt6*.so.6 are provided by the BLFS Qt6 package), libtiff.so.4 (but libtiff.so.6 is provided by the BLFS Libtiff package)

LSB Languages:

/usr/bin/python (LSB requires Python2 but LFS and BLFS only provide Python3)

LSB Imaging:

None

LSB Gtk3 and LSB Graphics (Trial Use):

libpng15.so (but libpng16.so is provided by the BLFS Libpng package)