Xutils-dev provides a set of utility programs shipped with the x window system that do not require the x libraries; many of these programs are useful even on a system that does not have any x clients or x servers installed.

the programs in this package include:
- imake, a c preprocessor interface to the make utility;
- lndir, a tool that creates a shadow directory of symbolic links to
another directory tree;
- makedepend, a tool to create dependencies in makefiles;
- makeg, a tool for making debuggable executables.
this package also contains xorg-macros.m4, a set of macros used in configure scripts of x.org packages.