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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-glibc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
10
11 <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc">
14 <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Glibc package contains the main C library. This library provides
21 the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and
22 closing files, reading and writing files, string handling, pattern matching,
23 arithmetic, and so on.</para>
24
25 <segmentedlist>
26 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
27 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
28
29 <seglistitem>
30 <seg>&glibc-ch6-sbu;</seg>
31 <seg>&glibc-ch6-du;</seg>
32 </seglistitem>
33 </segmentedlist>
34
35 </sect2>
36
37 <sect2 role="installation">
38 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
39
40 <note>
41 <para>Some packages outside of LFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
42 order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's
43 home page (<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"/>) says
44 <quote>This library provides an <function>iconv()</function>
45 implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose
46 implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.</quote> Glibc provides
47 an <function>iconv()</function> implementation and can convert from/to
48 Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS system.</para>
49 </note>
50
51 <para>The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
52 perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
53 pointing at <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
54 and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
55 Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
56 of achieving a clean build.</para>
57
58 <para>The glibc-libidn tarball adds support for internationalized domain
59 names (IDN) to Glibc. Many programs that support IDN require the full
60 <filename class="libraryfile">libidn</filename> library, not this add-on (see
61 <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/general/libidn.html"/>).
62 Unpack the tarball from within the Glibc source directory:</para>
63
64<screen><userinput>tar -xvf ../glibc-libidn-&glibc-version;.tar.bz2
65mv glibc-libidn-&glibc-version; libidn</userinput></screen>
66
67 <para>In the vi_VN.TCVN locale, <command>bash</command> enters an infinite loop
68 at startup. It is unknown whether this is a <command>bash</command> bug or a
69 Glibc problem. Disable installation of this locale in order to avoid the
70 problem:</para>
71
72<screen><userinput>sed -i '/vi_VN.TCVN/d' localedata/SUPPORTED</userinput></screen>
73
74 <para>When running <command>make install</command>, a script called
75 <filename>test-installation.pl</filename> performs a small sanity test on
76 our newly installed Glibc. However, because our toolchain still points to
77 the <filename class="directory">/tools</filename> directory, the sanity
78 test would be carried out against the wrong Glibc. We can force the script
79 to check the Glibc we have just installed with the following:</para>
80
81<screen><userinput>sed -i \
82's|libs -o|libs -L/usr/lib -Wl,-dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -o|' \
83 scripts/test-installation.pl</userinput></screen>
84
85 <para>Apply a patch to obtain various fixes that the upstream maintainers
86 have provided:</para>
87
88<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
89
90 <para>The <command>ldd</command> shell script contains Bash-specific
91 syntax. Change it's default program interpreter to <command>/bin/bash</command>
92 in case another <command>/bin/sh</command> is installed as described in the
93 <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/shells.html">Shells</ulink>
94 chapter of the BLFS book:</para>
95
96<screen><userinput>sed -i 's|@BASH@|/bin/bash|' elf/ldd.bash.in</userinput></screen>
97
98 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
99 directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
100
101<screen><userinput>mkdir -v ../glibc-build
102cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
103
104 <para>Tell Glibc to install its libraries in a more generic location:</para>
105
106<screen><userinput>echo "slibdir=/lib" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen>
107
108 <para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
109
110<screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
111 --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
112 --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc \
113 --libdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
114
115 <variablelist>
116 <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
117
118 <varlistentry>
119 <term><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc</parameter></term>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>This changes the location of the <command>pt_chown</command>
122 program from its default of <filename
123 class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename> to <filename
124 class="directory">/usr/lib/glibc</filename>.</para>
125 </listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
127
128 </variablelist>
129
130 <para>Compile the package:</para>
131
132<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
133
134 <important>
135 <para>In this section, the test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
136 Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
137 </important>
138
139 <para>Test the results:</para>
140
141<screen><userinput>make -k check 2&gt;&amp;1 | tee glibc-check-log
142grep Error glibc-check-log</userinput></screen>
143
144 <para>You will probably see an expected (ignored) failure in the
145 <emphasis>posix/annexc</emphasis> test. In addition the Glibc test suite
146 is somewhat dependent on the host system. This is a list of the most
147 common issues:</para>
148
149 <itemizedlist>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>The <emphasis>nptl/tst-clock2</emphasis> and
152 <emphasis>tst-attr3</emphasis> tests sometimes
153 fail. The reason is not completely understood, but indications
154 are that a heavy system load can trigger these failures.</para>
155 </listitem>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>The math tests sometimes fail when running on
158 systems where the CPU is not a relatively new genuine Intel or
159 authentic AMD processor.</para>
160 </listitem>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>If you have mounted the LFS partition with the
163 <parameter>noatime</parameter> option, the <emphasis>atime</emphasis>
164 test will fail. As mentioned in <xref linkend="space-mounting"/>, do not
165 use the <parameter>noatime</parameter> option while building LFS.</para>
166 </listitem>
167 <listitem>
168 <para>When running on older and slower hardware or on systems under
169 load, some tests can fail because of test timeouts being exceeded.</para>
170 </listitem>
171 </itemizedlist>
172
173 <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
174 complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
175 Prevent this warning with:</para>
176
177<screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
178
179 <para>Install the package:</para>
180
181<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
182
183 <para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different language
184 were not installed by the above command. None of the locales are required,
185 but if some of them are missing, testsuites of the future packages would
186 skip important testcases.</para>
187
188 <para>Individual locales can be installed using the
189 <command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the first
190 <command>localedef</command> command below combines the
191 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE</filename>
192 charset-independent locale definition with the
193 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ISO-8859-1.gz</filename>
194 charmap definition and appends the result to the
195 <filename>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive</filename> file.
196 The following instructions will install the minimum set of
197 locales necessary for the optimal coverage of tests:</para>
198
199<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
200localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
201localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
202localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
203localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
204localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
205localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
206localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
207localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
208localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
209localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
210localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8
211localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
212localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP</userinput></screen>
213
214 <para>In addition, install the locale for your own country, language and
215 character set.</para>
216
217 <para>Alternatively, install all locales listed in the
218 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
219 (it includes every locale listed above and many more) at once with the
220 following time-consuming command:</para>
221
222<screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
223
224 <para>Then use the <command>localedef</command> command to create and
225 install locales not listed in the
226 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
227 in the unlikely case if you need them.</para>
228 <!-- The Live CD patches the localedata/SUPPORTED file instead of
229 running localedef, the results are equivalent -->
230
231 </sect2>
232
233 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
234 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
235
236 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
237 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
238 </indexterm>
239
240 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
241 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
242 </indexterm>
243
244 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
245 because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is missing or corrupt,
246 the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment. The time zone
247 also needs to be configured.</para>
248
249 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
250 following:</para>
251
252<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
253<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
254
255passwd: files
256group: files
257shadow: files
258
259hosts: files dns
260networks: files
261
262protocols: files
263services: files
264ethers: files
265rpc: files
266
267# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
268EOF</userinput></screen>
269
270 <para>One way to determine the local time zone, run the following
271 script:</para>
272
273<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
274
275 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
276 output the name of the time zone (e.g.,
277 <emphasis>America/Edmonton</emphasis>). There are also some other possible
278 timezones listed in <filename
279 class='directory'>/usr/share/zoneinfo</filename> such as
280 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis> or <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> that
281 are not identified by the script but can be used.</para>
282
283 <para>Then create the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by
284 running:</para>
285
286<screen><userinput>cp -v --remove-destination /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> \
287 /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
288
289 <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the
290 time zone selected (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
291
292 <variablelist>
293 <title>The meaning of the cp option:</title>
294
295 <varlistentry>
296 <term><parameter>--remove-destination</parameter></term>
297 <listitem>
298 <para>This is needed to force removal of the already existing symbolic
299 link. The reason for copying the file instead of using a symlink is to
300 cover the situation where <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
301 is on a separate partition. This could be important when booted into
302 single user mode.</para>
303 </listitem>
304 </varlistentry>
305
306 </variablelist>
307
308 </sect2>
309
310 <sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
311 <title>Configuring the Dynamic Loader</title>
312
313 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
314 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316
317 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
318 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
319 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename
320 class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries that are
321 needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are libraries in
322 directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
323 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be added
324 to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order for the
325 dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known
326 to contain additional libraries are <filename
327 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
328 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
329 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
330
331 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
332 following:</para>
333
334<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
335<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
336
337/usr/local/lib
338/opt/lib
339
340# End /etc/ld.so.conf</literal>
341EOF</userinput></screen>
342
343 </sect2>
344
345 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
346 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
347
348 <segmentedlist>
349 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
350 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
351
352 <seglistitem>
353 <seg>catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
354 ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, mtrace, nscd, pcprofiledump,
355 pt_chown, rpcgen, rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
356 zdump, and zic</seg>
357 <seg>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.{a,so}, libSegFault.so, libanl.{a,so},
358 libbsd-compat.a, libc.{a,so}, libcidn.so, libcrypt.{a,so}, libdl.{a,so},
359 libg.a, libieee.a, libm.{a,so}, libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so,
360 libnsl.{a,so}, libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so,
361 libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so,
362 libpthread.{a,so}, libresolv.{a,so}, librpcsvc.a, librt.{a,so},
363 libthread_db.so, and libutil.{a,so}</seg>
364 </seglistitem>
365 </segmentedlist>
366
367 <variablelist>
368 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
369 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
370 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
371
372 <varlistentry id="catchsegv">
373 <term><command>catchsegv</command></term>
374 <listitem>
375 <para>Can be used to create a stack trace when a program
376 terminates with a segmentation fault</para>
377 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc catchsegv">
378 <primary sortas="b-catchsegv">catchsegv</primary>
379 </indexterm>
380 </listitem>
381 </varlistentry>
382
383 <varlistentry id="gencat">
384 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
385 <listitem>
386 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
387 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
388 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
389 </indexterm>
390 </listitem>
391 </varlistentry>
392
393 <varlistentry id="getconf">
394 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
395 <listitem>
396 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system
397 specific variables</para>
398 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
399 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
400 </indexterm>
401 </listitem>
402 </varlistentry>
403
404 <varlistentry id="getent">
405 <term><command>getent</command></term>
406 <listitem>
407 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
408 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
409 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
410 </indexterm>
411 </listitem>
412 </varlistentry>
413
414 <varlistentry id="iconv">
415 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
416 <listitem>
417 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
418 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
419 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
420 </indexterm>
421 </listitem>
422 </varlistentry>
423
424 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
425 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
426 <listitem>
427 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
428 files</para>
429 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
430 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
431 </indexterm>
432 </listitem>
433 </varlistentry>
434
435 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
436 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
439 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
440 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
441 </indexterm>
442 </listitem>
443 </varlistentry>
444
445 <varlistentry id="ldd">
446 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
449 by each given program or shared library</para>
450 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
451 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
452 </indexterm>
453 </listitem>
454 </varlistentry>
455
456 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
457 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
458 <listitem>
459 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files</para>
460 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
461 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
462 </indexterm>
463 </listitem>
464 </varlistentry>
465
466 <varlistentry id="locale">
467 <term><command>locale</command></term>
468 <listitem>
469 <para>Prints various information about the current locale</para>
470 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
471 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
472 </indexterm>
473 </listitem>
474 </varlistentry>
475
476 <varlistentry id="localedef">
477 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
478 <listitem>
479 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
480 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
481 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
482 </indexterm>
483 </listitem>
484 </varlistentry>
485
486 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
487 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
488 <listitem>
489 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary
490 in human-readable format</para>
491 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
492 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
493 </indexterm>
494 </listitem>
495 </varlistentry>
496
497 <varlistentry id="nscd">
498 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
499 <listitem>
500 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
501 service requests</para>
502 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
503 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
504 </indexterm>
505 </listitem>
506 </varlistentry>
507
508 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
509 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
510 <listitem>
511 <para>Dumps information generated by PC profiling</para>
512 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
513 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
514 </indexterm>
515 </listitem>
516 </varlistentry>
517
518 <varlistentry id="pt_chown">
519 <term><command>pt_chown</command></term>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>A helper program for <command>grantpt</command> to set the owner,
522 group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal</para>
523 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pt_chown">
524 <primary sortas="b-pt_chown">pt_chown</primary>
525 </indexterm>
526 </listitem>
527 </varlistentry>
528
529 <varlistentry id="rpcgen">
530 <term><command>rpcgen</command></term>
531 <listitem>
532 <para>Generates C code to implement the Remote Procecure Call (RPC)
533 protocol</para>
534 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcgen">
535 <primary sortas="b-rpcgen">rpcgen</primary>
536 </indexterm>
537 </listitem>
538 </varlistentry>
539
540 <varlistentry id="rpcinfo">
541 <term><command>rpcinfo</command></term>
542 <listitem>
543 <para>Makes an RPC call to an RPC server</para>
544 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcinfo">
545 <primary sortas="b-rpcinfo">rpcinfo</primary>
546 </indexterm>
547 </listitem>
548 </varlistentry>
549
550 <varlistentry id="sln">
551 <term><command>sln</command></term>
552 <listitem>
553 <para>A statically linked <command>ln</command> program</para>
554 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
555 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
556 </indexterm>
557 </listitem>
558 </varlistentry>
559
560 <varlistentry id="sprof">
561 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
562 <listitem>
563 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
564 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
565 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
566 </indexterm>
567 </listitem>
568 </varlistentry>
569
570 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
571 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
572 <listitem>
573 <para>Asks the user about the location of the system and reports
574 the corresponding time zone description</para>
575 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
576 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
577 </indexterm>
578 </listitem>
579 </varlistentry>
580
581 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
582 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
583 <listitem>
584 <para>Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently
585 executed function</para>
586 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
587 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
588 </indexterm>
589 </listitem>
590 </varlistentry>
591
592 <varlistentry id="zdump">
593 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
594 <listitem>
595 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
596 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
597 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
598 </indexterm>
599 </listitem>
600 </varlistentry>
601
602 <varlistentry id="zic">
603 <term><command>zic</command></term>
604 <listitem>
605 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
606 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
607 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
608 </indexterm>
609 </listitem>
610 </varlistentry>
611
612 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
613 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld.so</filename></term>
614 <listitem>
615 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
616 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
617 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld.so</primary>
618 </indexterm>
619 </listitem>
620 </varlistentry>
621
622 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
623 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
624 <listitem>
625 <para>Used internally by Glibc as a gross hack to get broken programs
626 (e.g., some Motif applications) running. See comments in
627 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/locale/broken_cur_max.c</filename>
628 for more information</para>
629 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
630 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
631 </indexterm>
632 </listitem>
633 </varlistentry>
634
635 <varlistentry id="libSegFault">
636 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libSegFault</filename></term>
637 <listitem>
638 <para>The segmentation fault signal handler, used by
639 <command>catchsegv</command></para>
640 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libSegFault">
641 <primary sortas="c-libSegFault">libSegFault</primary>
642 </indexterm>
643 </listitem>
644 </varlistentry>
645
646 <varlistentry id="libanl">
647 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
648 <listitem>
649 <para>An asynchronous name lookup library</para>
650 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
651 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
652 </indexterm>
653 </listitem>
654 </varlistentry>
655
656 <varlistentry id="libbsd-compat">
657 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbsd-compat</filename></term>
658 <listitem>
659 <para>Provides the portability needed in order to run certain
660 Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) programs under Linux</para>
661 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libbsd-compat">
662 <primary sortas="c-libbsd-compat">libbsd-compat</primary>
663 </indexterm>
664 </listitem>
665 </varlistentry>
666
667 <varlistentry id="libc">
668 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
669 <listitem>
670 <para>The main C library</para>
671 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
672 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
673 </indexterm>
674 </listitem>
675 </varlistentry>
676
677 <varlistentry id="libcidn">
678 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcidn</filename></term>
679 <listitem>
680 <para>Used internally by Glibc for handling internationalized domain
681 names in the <function>getaddrinfo()</function> function</para>
682 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcrypt">
683 <primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary>
684 </indexterm>
685 </listitem>
686 </varlistentry>
687
688 <varlistentry id="libcrypt">
689 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcrypt</filename></term>
690 <listitem>
691 <para>The cryptography library</para>
692 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcrypt">
693 <primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary>
694 </indexterm>
695 </listitem>
696 </varlistentry>
697
698 <varlistentry id="libdl">
699 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
700 <listitem>
701 <para>The dynamic linking interface library</para>
702 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
703 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
704 </indexterm>
705 </listitem>
706 </varlistentry>
707
708 <varlistentry id="libg">
709 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
710 <listitem>
711 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was a runtime
712 library for <command>g++</command></para>
713 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
714 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
715 </indexterm>
716 </listitem>
717 </varlistentry>
718
719 <varlistentry id="libieee">
720 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libieee</filename></term>
721 <listitem>
722 <para>Linking in this module forces error handling rules for math
723 functions as defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
724 Engineers (IEEE). The default is POSIX.1 error handling</para>
725 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libieee">
726 <primary sortas="c-libieee">libieee</primary>
727 </indexterm>
728 </listitem>
729 </varlistentry>
730
731 <varlistentry id="libm">
732 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
733 <listitem>
734 <para>The mathematical library</para>
735 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
736 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
737 </indexterm>
738 </listitem>
739 </varlistentry>
740
741 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
742 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
743 <listitem>
744 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when linked to</para>
745 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
746 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
747 </indexterm>
748 </listitem>
749 </varlistentry>
750
751 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
752 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
753 <listitem>
754 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> to help collect
755 information about the memory usage of a program</para>
756 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
757 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
758 </indexterm>
759 </listitem>
760 </varlistentry>
761
762 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
763 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
764 <listitem>
765 <para>The network services library</para>
766 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
767 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
768 </indexterm>
769 </listitem>
770 </varlistentry>
771
772 <varlistentry id="libnss">
773 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss</filename></term>
774 <listitem>
775 <para>The Name Service Switch libraries, containing functions for
776 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
777 protocols, etc.</para>
778 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
779 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss</primary>
780 </indexterm>
781 </listitem>
782 </varlistentry>
783
784 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
785 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
786 <listitem>
787 <para>Contains profiling functions used to track the amount of CPU
788 time spent in specific source code lines</para>
789 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
790 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
791 </indexterm>
792 </listitem>
793 </varlistentry>
794
795 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
796 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>The POSIX threads library</para>
799 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
800 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
801 </indexterm>
802 </listitem>
803 </varlistentry>
804
805 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
806 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
807 <listitem>
808 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
809 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
810 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
811 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
812 </indexterm>
813 </listitem>
814 </varlistentry>
815
816 <varlistentry id="librpcsvc">
817 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librpcsvc</filename></term>
818 <listitem>
819 <para>Contains functions providing miscellaneous RPC services</para>
820 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librpcsvc">
821 <primary sortas="c-librpcsvc">librpcsvc</primary>
822 </indexterm>
823 </listitem>
824 </varlistentry>
825
826 <varlistentry id="librt">
827 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
828 <listitem>
829 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified
830 by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension</para>
831 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
832 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
833 </indexterm>
834 </listitem>
835 </varlistentry>
836
837 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
838 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
839 <listitem>
840 <para>Contains functions useful for building debuggers for
841 multi-threaded programs</para>
842 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
843 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
844 </indexterm>
845 </listitem>
846 </varlistentry>
847
848 <varlistentry id="libutil">
849 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
850 <listitem>
851 <para>Contains code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
852 many different Unix utilities</para>
853 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
854 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
855 </indexterm>
856 </listitem>
857 </varlistentry>
858
859 </variablelist>
860
861 </sect2>
862
863</sect1>
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