Packages

BLFS XFCE. Application launcher/search (Alt+F2 style). No test suite.

BLFS XFCE. Provides xdt-autogen/xdt-csource, the build-time macros most other XFCE components' configure scripts need. Skips the optional make check.

BLFS apps. The notification daemon libnotify's messages actually need a listener for -- last package of the minimal-XFCE scope (X11 core + Mesa, GTK3, lightdm, hicolor+lxde icons, XFCE4 core + xfce4-terminal + xfce4-notifyd).

BLFS XFCE. The taskbar/panel. libdbusmenu optional dep skipped. No test suite.

BLFS XFCE. The session manager -- provides /usr/bin/xfce4-session and the 'xfce.desktop' xsession entry lightdm's greeter lists. --disable-legacy-sm (no X11R6 session-management fallback needed). xfce4-screensaver/polkit-gnome optional deps skipped. desktop-file-utils already built.

BLFS XFCE. Settings daemon + dialogs (appearance, display, keyboard, mouse, etc). Its required-runtime icon theme is now satisfied by lxde-icon-theme. libcanberra/colord/UPower optional deps skipped.

BLFS apps. Terminal emulator, part of the minimal-XFCE scope. Applies BLFS's required sed to guard an optional gtk-layer-shell code path (we don't build gtk-layer-shell, this just keeps it compiling without it).

BLFS XFCE. Configuration storage system (like dconf/gsettings) used by all XFCE components. No test suite.

BLFS XFCE. Desktop background/icons manager -- required at runtime by xfce4-session. Real bug found live (via the Phase 1.5 installer boot test): xfdesktop's own ./configure was actually run before thunar existed in this project's real build history (depends previously only listed xfce4-panel, not thunar), so it silently detected no thunarx-3/libexo-2 and built without file-icon support -- no error, no warning, exactly the same silent-skip class already hit for ncurses/pkg-config, ninja, and the gdk-pixbuf/harfbuzz introspection cascade. Symptom: xfdesktop logged 'CRITICAL: Unusable XfceDesktopIconStyle: 2. Unable to display desktop icons.' when /desktop-icons/style was set to 2 (File/Directory Icons), even though thunarx-3.pc/exo-2.pc/libthunarx-3.so were all genuinely present on the live system by then. Fixed by adding thunar to depends (documents the real ordering requirement) and rebuilding xfdesktop after thunar. That rebuild alone was still not enough -- xfdesktop's actual XFCE_DESKTOP_ICON_STYLE_FILES case is gated behind a SEPARATE compile-time macro, ENABLE_FILE_ICONS, itself gated by configure.ac on 'yaml-0.1 >= 0.2.5' via pkg-config (not thunarx, which only gates the unrelated right-click desktop-menu extension feature) -- confirmed directly in configure.ac and config.log ('dependencies missing: yaml-0.1 >= 0.2.5'). See the new packages/libyaml package. xfdesktop now depends on libyaml too and must be rebuilt again after it.

BLFS XFCE. The window manager itself. No test suite.

BLFS. Provides startx/xinit. twm/xclock/xterm are book-recommended runtime-only extras we skip per the minimal-XFCE scope (lightdm will be the real session launcher; startx stays available as a fallback).

BLFS. Keyboard layout database. Skips the optional pytest test suite (needs libxkbcommon/pytest which we don't have).

BLFS. Header files needed by virtually every other X11 package.

BLFS. glamor=true for GL-accelerated rendering via mesa/libepoxy (both already built). secure-rpc=false since our glibc has no sunrpc support and we don't build libtirpc. Skips the optional test suite (needs ldconfig against the live system). Creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d after install. || Security/patch update 21.1.24 -> 21.1.25 (2026-10-08): real upstream tarball, archive integrity tested, sha256 computed from the download.

X.Org build macros (XORG_MACROS) -- pkgconfig-only, needed by the xcb-util-* autotools builds. ship_in_iso=false -- KDE Plasma is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, deliberately kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing KF6 6.29 + Qt6 (/opt/qt6-full) stack from the Kdenlive work.

Xwayland -- rootless X server so X11 apps run under Mutter's Wayland compositor. Mutter looks for the Xwayland binary at runtime. ship_in_iso=false -- GNOME Shell is a Packages-page / Package Manager install, kept off linuxdoors.iso (XFCE + MATE are the shipped desktops). Built on .101 against the existing rustc/llvm/p11-kit/librsvg/gi/glib2/pango/cairo stack; only the GNOME-specific libraries are new packages. || Security/patch update 24.1.13 -> 24.1.14 (2026-10-08): real upstream tarball, archive integrity tested, sha256 computed from the download.

LFS ch8. Skips the optional make check.

LFS ch6 temporary tools stage. Not a GNU project -- source lives on GitHub/tukaani.org, not ftp.gnu.org.

GTK3 dialog helper (last GTK3 branch, 3.44.x). Not shipped in the ISO; pulled in as a runtime dep of marco (MATE window manager) for its app-not-responding dialogs. meson build.

ZeroMQ 4.3.5 (libzmq) + cppzmq 4.10.0 header-only C++ wrapper. libopenshot's ZmqLogger uses ZeroMQ for its C++<->Python log/IPC channel. Plain autotools build (--without-docs, no libsodium/CURVE -- OpenShot uses plain tcp/inproc). cppzmq's zmq.hpp / zmq_addon.hpp are copied into /usr/include alongside. ship_in_iso=false: OpenShot video-editing feature, packages-only.

BLFS general/zip.html, real book page fetched and followed. Added specifically because LinuxUltraOffice's configure hard-requires a real 'zip' binary (ODF/OOXML document formats are zip containers) -- this project never needed it before. No autotools -- builds via a plain Makefile (make -f unix/Makefile generic). Real book note: needs CC="gcc -std=gnu89" since Zip's own source predates ISO C99 and won't compile clean under this project's modern GCC 14 default standard otherwise.

LFS ch8. Skips the optional make check.

LFS ch7, inside the chroot. Needed by mpdecimal/python. Superseded by chapter 8's full zlib build.

LFS ch8. Plain make, not autotools. Skips the optional make check.