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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-system-glibc" xreflabel="Glibc" role="wrap">
7<title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc"><primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary></indexterm>
11
12<sect2 role="package"><title/>
13<para>The Glibc package contains the main C library. This library provides all
14the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and
15closing files, reading and writing them, string handling, pattern matching,
16arithmetic, and so on.</para>
17
18<segmentedlist>
19<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
20<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
21<seglistitem><seg>12.3 SBU</seg><seg>784 MB</seg></seglistitem>
22</segmentedlist>
23
24<segmentedlist>
25<segtitle>Glibc installation depends on</segtitle>
26<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
27Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed, Texinfo</seg></seglistitem>
28</segmentedlist>
29</sect2>
30
31<sect2 role="installation">
32<title>Installation of Glibc</title>
33
34<para>The Glibc build system is very well self-contained and will install
35perfectly, even though our compiler specs file and linker are still pointing
36at <filename>/tools</filename>. We cannot adjust the specs and linker before
37the Glibc install, because the Glibc autoconf tests would then give bogus
38results and thus defeat our goal of achieving a clean build.</para>
39
40<para>Before starting to build Glibc, remember to unset any environment
41variables that override the default optimization flags.</para>
42
43<para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
44directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
45
46<screen><userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build
47cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
48
49<para>Now prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
50
51<screen><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
52 --disable-profile --enable-add-ons=nptl --with-tls \
53 --libexecdir=/tmp/pt_chown --without-cvs \
54 --with-headers=/tools/glibc-kernheaders</userinput></screen>
55
56<para>The meaning of the new configure options:</para>
57
58<variablelist>
59<varlistentry>
60<term><userinput>--libexecdir=/tmp/pt_chown</userinput></term>
61<listitem><para>This changes
62the location of the <filename>pt_chown</filename> program from its default of
63<filename class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename> to
64<filename class="directory">/tmp/pt_chown</filename>. This program isn't required
65on modern systems, so we install it in a place from which we will delete it
66later.</para></listitem>
67</varlistentry>
68</variablelist>
69
70<para>Compile the package:</para>
71
72<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
73
74<important><para>The test suite for Glibc in this section is considered
75<emphasis>critical</emphasis>. Our advice is to not skip it under any
76circumstance.</para></important>
77
78<para>Test the results:</para>
79
80<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
81
82<para>The test suite notes from <xref linkend="ch-tools-glibc"/> are still very much
83appropriate here. Be sure to refer back there should you have any doubts.</para>
84
85<para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
86complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>. Fix this
87annoying little warning with:</para>
88
89<screen><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
90
91<para>And install the package:</para>
92
93<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
94
95<para>The locales that can make your system respond in a different language
96weren't installed by the above command. Do it with this:</para>
97
98<screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
99
100<para>An alternative to running the previous command is to install only those
101locales which you need or want. This can be achieved by using the
102<command>localedef</command> command. Information on this can be found in
103the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file in the Glibc source. However, there are
104a number of locales that are essential for the tests of future packages to
105pass, in particular, the <emphasis>libstdc++</emphasis> tests from GCC. The
106following instructions, instead of the install-locales target above, will
107install the minimum set of locales necessary for the tests to run
108successfully:</para>
109
110<screen><userinput>mkdir -p /usr/lib/locale
111localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
112localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
113localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
114localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
115localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
116localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
117localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
118localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
119localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
120localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
121localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP</userinput></screen>
122
123<para>In fact, some locales installed by the
124<command>make localedata/install-locales</command>
125command above are not properly
126supported by some applications that are in LFS and BLFS books. Because
127of various problems that arise
128due to application programmers making
129assumptions that break in such locales, LFS <emphasis>should not</emphasis>
130be used in locales that utilize
131multibyte character sets (including UTF-8) or
132right-to-left writing order.
133Numerous unofficial and unstable patches are required to fix these problems,
134and it has been decided not to support such complex locales.
135This applies to the ja_JP and fa_IR locales as well:
136they have been installed only
137for gcc and gettext tests to pass, and e.g.
138the <command>watch</command> program (part of Procps)
139compiled according to this book doesn't work properly in them.
140Various attempts to circumvent these
141restrictions are documented in internationalization-related hints.</para>
142
143<para>Finally, build the linuxthreads man pages, which are a great reference
144on the threading API (applicable to NPTL as well):</para>
145
146<screen><userinput>make -C ../glibc-&glibc-version;/linuxthreads/man</userinput></screen>
147
148<para>And install these pages:</para>
149
150<screen><userinput>make -C ../glibc-&glibc-version;/linuxthreads/man install</userinput></screen>
151
152</sect2>
153
154
155<sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration"><title>Configuring Glibc</title>
156<indexterm zone="conf-glibc"><primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary></indexterm>
157<indexterm zone="conf-glibc"><primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary></indexterm>
158
159<para>We need to create the <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file,
160because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is missing or corrupt,
161the Glibc defaults don't work well with networking. Also, our time zone needs
162to be set up.</para>
163
164<para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
165following:</para>
166
167<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
168# Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
169
170passwd: files
171group: files
172shadow: files
173
174hosts: files dns
175networks: files
176
177protocols: files
178services: files
179ethers: files
180rpc: files
181
182# End /etc/nsswitch.conf
183<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
184
185<para>To find out what time zone you're in, run the following script:</para>
186
187<screen><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
188
189<para>When you've answered a few questions about your location, the script will
190output the name of your time zone, something like <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis>
191or <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis>. Then create the
192<filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by running:</para>
193
194<screen><userinput>cp --remove-destination /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
195
196<para>The meaning of the option:</para>
197
198<variablelist>
199<varlistentry>
200<term><userinput>--remove-destination</userinput></term>
201<listitem><para>This is needed to force removal of the already existing symbolic
202link. The reason why we copy instead of symlink is to cover the situation where
203<filename>/usr</filename> is on a separate partition. This could matter, for
204example, when booted into single user mode.</para></listitem>
205</varlistentry>
206</variablelist>
207
208<para>Of course, instead of <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis>, fill in
209the name of the time zone that the <command>tzselect</command> script
210gave you.</para>
211
212</sect2>
213
214
215<sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
216<title>Configuring Dynamic Loader</title>
217<indexterm zone="conf-ld"><primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary></indexterm>
218
219<para>By default, the dynamic loader
220(<filename>/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through <filename
221class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>
222for dynamic libraries that are needed
223by programs when you run them. However, if there are libraries in
224directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
225<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, you need to add them to
226the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file for the dynamic
227loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known to contain
228additional libraries are <filename class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename>
229and <filename class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so we add those directories to the
230dynamic loader's search path.</para>
231
232<para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
233following:</para>
234
235<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
236# Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
237
238/usr/local/lib
239/opt/lib
240
241# End /etc/ld.so.conf
242<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
243
244</sect2>
245
246
247<sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content"><title>Contents of Glibc</title>
248
249<segmentedlist>
250<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
251<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
252<seglistitem><seg>catchsegv, gencat, getconf,
253getent, glibcbug, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig, ldd, lddlibc4, locale,
254localedef, mtrace, nscd, nscd_nischeck, pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen,
255rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace, zdump and zic</seg>
256<seg>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so],
257libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so], libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], libc_nonshared.a,
258libcrypt.[a,so], libdl.[a,so], libg.a, libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libmcheck.a,
259libmemusage.so, libnsl.a, libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so,
260libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so,
261libpthread.[a,so], libresolv.[a,so], librpcsvc.a, librt.[a,so], libthread_db.so
262and libutil.[a,so]</seg></seglistitem>
263</segmentedlist>
264
265<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
266
267<varlistentry id="catchsegv">
268<term><command>catchsegv</command></term>
269<listitem>
270<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc catchsegv"><primary sortas="b-catchsegv">catchsegv</primary></indexterm>
271<para>can be used to create a stack trace
272when a program terminates with a segmentation fault.</para>
273</listitem>
274</varlistentry>
275
276<varlistentry id="gencat">
277<term><command>gencat</command></term>
278<listitem>
279<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat"><primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary></indexterm>
280<para>generates message catalogues.</para>
281</listitem>
282</varlistentry>
283
284<varlistentry id="getconf">
285<term><command>getconf</command></term>
286<listitem>
287<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf"><primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary></indexterm>
288<para>displays the system configuration values for file system specific variables.</para>
289</listitem>
290</varlistentry>
291
292<varlistentry id="getent">
293<term><command>getent</command></term>
294<listitem>
295<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent"><primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary></indexterm>
296<para>gets entries from an administrative database.</para>
297</listitem>
298</varlistentry>
299
300<varlistentry id="glibcbug">
301<term><command>glibcbug</command></term>
302<listitem>
303<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc glibcbug"><primary sortas="b-glibcbug">glibcbug</primary></indexterm>
304<para>creates a bug report and mails it to the bug email address.</para>
305</listitem>
306</varlistentry>
307
308<varlistentry id="iconv">
309<term><command>iconv</command></term>
310<listitem>
311<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv"><primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary></indexterm>
312<para>performs character set conversion.</para>
313</listitem>
314</varlistentry>
315
316<varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
317<term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
318<listitem>
319<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig"><primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary></indexterm>
320<para>creates fastloading iconv module configuration file.</para>
321</listitem>
322</varlistentry>
323
324<varlistentry id="ldconfig">
325<term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
326<listitem>
327<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig"><primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary></indexterm>
328<para>configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings.</para>
329</listitem>
330</varlistentry>
331
332<varlistentry id="ldd">
333<term><command>ldd</command></term>
334<listitem>
335<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd"><primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary></indexterm>
336<para>reports which shared libraries are required
337by each given program or shared library.</para>
338</listitem>
339</varlistentry>
340
341<varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
342<term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
343<listitem>
344<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4"><primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary></indexterm>
345<para>assists ldd with object files.</para>
346</listitem>
347</varlistentry>
348
349<varlistentry id="locale">
350<term><command>locale</command></term>
351<listitem>
352<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale"><primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary></indexterm>
353<para>is a Perl program that tells the compiler
354to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales for built-in operations.</para>
355</listitem>
356</varlistentry>
357
358<varlistentry id="localedef">
359<term><command>localedef</command></term>
360<listitem>
361<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef"><primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary></indexterm>
362<para>compiles locale specifications.</para>
363</listitem>
364</varlistentry>
365
366<varlistentry id="mtrace">
367<term><command>mtrace</command></term>
368<listitem>
369<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace"><primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary></indexterm>
370<para>...</para>
371</listitem>
372</varlistentry>
373
374<varlistentry id="nscd">
375<term><command>nscd</command></term>
376<listitem>
377<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd"><primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary></indexterm>
378<para>is a name service cache daemon providing a
379cache for the most common name service requests.</para>
380</listitem>
381</varlistentry>
382
383<varlistentry id="nscd_nischeck">
384<term><command>nscd_nischeck</command></term>
385<listitem>
386<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd_nischeck"><primary sortas="b-nscd_nischeck">nscd_nischeck</primary></indexterm>
387<para>checks whether or not secure mode is necessary for NIS+ lookup.</para>
388</listitem>
389</varlistentry>
390
391<varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
392<term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
393<listitem>
394<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump"><primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary></indexterm>
395<para>dumps information generated by PC profiling.</para>
396</listitem>
397</varlistentry>
398
399<varlistentry id="pt_chown">
400<term><command>pt_chown</command></term>
401<listitem>
402<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pt_chown"><primary sortas="b-pt_chown">pt_chown</primary></indexterm>
403<para>is a helper program for grantpt to set
404the owner, group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal.</para>
405</listitem>
406</varlistentry>
407
408<varlistentry id="rpcgen">
409<term><command>rpcgen</command></term>
410<listitem>
411<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcgen"><primary sortas="b-rpcgen">rpcgen</primary></indexterm>
412<para>generates C code to implement the RPC protocol.</para>
413</listitem>
414</varlistentry>
415
416<varlistentry id="rpcinfo">
417<term><command>rpcinfo</command></term>
418<listitem>
419<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcinfo"><primary sortas="b-rpcinfo">rpcinfo</primary></indexterm>
420<para>makes an RPC call to an RPC server.</para>
421</listitem>
422</varlistentry>
423
424<varlistentry id="sln">
425<term><command>sln</command></term>
426<listitem>
427<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln"><primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary></indexterm>
428<para>is used to make symbolic links. The program
429is statically linked, so it is useful for making symbolic links to dynamic
430libraries if the dynamic linking system for some reason is nonfunctional.</para>
431</listitem>
432</varlistentry>
433
434<varlistentry id="sprof">
435<term><command>sprof</command></term>
436<listitem>
437<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof"><primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary></indexterm>
438<para>reads and displays shared object profiling data.</para>
439</listitem>
440</varlistentry>
441
442<varlistentry id="tzselect">
443<term><command>tzselect</command></term>
444<listitem>
445<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect"><primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary></indexterm>
446<para>asks the user about the location of the
447system and reports the corresponding time zone description.</para>
448</listitem>
449</varlistentry>
450
451<varlistentry id="xtrace">
452<term><command>xtrace</command></term>
453<listitem>
454<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace"><primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary></indexterm>
455<para>traces the execution of a program by
456printing the currently executed function.</para>
457</listitem>
458</varlistentry>
459
460<varlistentry id="zdump">
461<term><command>zdump</command></term>
462<listitem>
463<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump"><primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary></indexterm>
464<para>is the time zone dumper.</para>
465</listitem>
466</varlistentry>
467
468<varlistentry id="zic">
469<term><command>zic</command></term>
470<listitem>
471<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic"><primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary></indexterm>
472<para>is the time zone compiler.</para>
473</listitem>
474</varlistentry>
475
476<varlistentry id="ld.so">
477<term><command>ld.so</command></term>
478<listitem>
479<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so"><primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld.so</primary></indexterm>
480<para>is the helper program for shared library executables.</para>
481</listitem>
482</varlistentry>
483
484<varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
485<term><command>libBrokenLocale</command></term>
486<listitem>
487<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale"><primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary></indexterm>
488<para>is used by programs, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para>
489</listitem>
490</varlistentry>
491
492<varlistentry id="libSegFault">
493<term><command>libSegFault</command></term>
494<listitem>
495<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libSegFault"><primary sortas="c-libSegFault">libSegFault</primary></indexterm>
496<para>is a segmentation fault signal handler. It tries to catch segfaults.</para>
497</listitem>
498</varlistentry>
499
500<varlistentry id="libanl">
501<term><command>libanl</command></term>
502<listitem>
503<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl"><primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary></indexterm>
504<para>is an asynchronous name lookup library.</para>
505</listitem>
506</varlistentry>
507
508<varlistentry id="libbsd-compat">
509<term><command>libbsd-compat</command></term>
510<listitem>
511<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libbsd-compat"><primary sortas="c-libbsd-compat">libbsd-compat</primary></indexterm>
512<para>provides the portability needed
513in order to run certain BSD programs under Linux.</para>
514</listitem>
515</varlistentry>
516
517<varlistentry id="libc">
518<term><command>libc</command></term>
519<listitem>
520<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc"><primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary></indexterm>
521<para>is the main C library -- a collection of commonly used functions.</para>
522</listitem>
523</varlistentry>
524
525<varlistentry id="libcrypt">
526<term><command>libcrypt</command></term>
527<listitem>
528<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcrypt"><primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary></indexterm>
529<para>is the cryptography library.</para>
530</listitem>
531</varlistentry>
532
533<varlistentry id="libdl">
534<term><command>libdl</command></term>
535<listitem>
536<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl"><primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary></indexterm>
537<para>is the dynamic linking interface library.</para>
538</listitem>
539</varlistentry>
540
541<varlistentry id="libg">
542<term><command>libg</command></term>
543<listitem>
544<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg"><primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary></indexterm>
545<para>is a runtime library for g++.</para>
546</listitem>
547</varlistentry>
548
549<varlistentry id="libieee">
550<term><command>libieee</command></term>
551<listitem>
552<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libieee"><primary sortas="c-libieee">libieee</primary></indexterm>
553<para>is the IEEE floating point library.</para>
554</listitem>
555</varlistentry>
556
557<varlistentry id="libm">
558<term><command>libm</command></term>
559<listitem>
560<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm"><primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary></indexterm>
561<para>is the mathematical library.</para>
562</listitem>
563</varlistentry>
564
565<varlistentry id="libmcheck">
566<term><command>libmcheck</command></term>
567<listitem>
568<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck"><primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary></indexterm>
569<para>contains code run at boot.</para>
570</listitem>
571</varlistentry>
572
573<varlistentry id="libmemusage">
574<term><command>libmemusage</command></term>
575<listitem>
576<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage"><primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary></indexterm>
577<para>is used by memusage to help collect
578information about the memory usage of a program.</para>
579</listitem>
580</varlistentry>
581
582<varlistentry id="libnsl">
583<term><command>libnsl</command></term>
584<listitem>
585<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl"><primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary></indexterm>
586<para>is the network services library.</para>
587</listitem>
588</varlistentry>
589
590<varlistentry id="libnss">
591<term><command>libnss*</command></term>
592<listitem>
593<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss"><primary sortas="c-libnss*">libnss*</primary></indexterm>
594<para>are the Name Service Switch libraries,
595containing functions for resolving host names, user names, group names,
596aliases, services, protocols,and the like.</para>
597</listitem>
598</varlistentry>
599
600<varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
601<term><command>libpcprofile</command></term>
602<listitem>
603<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile"><primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary></indexterm>
604<para>contains profiling functions used
605to track the amount of CPU time spent in which source code lines.</para>
606</listitem>
607</varlistentry>
608
609<varlistentry id="libpthread">
610<term><command>libpthread</command></term>
611<listitem>
612<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread"><primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary></indexterm>
613<para>is the POSIX threads library.</para>
614</listitem>
615</varlistentry>
616
617<varlistentry id="libresolv">
618<term><command>libresolv</command></term>
619<listitem>
620<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv"><primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary></indexterm>
621<para>contains functions for creating,
622sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers.</para>
623</listitem>
624</varlistentry>
625
626<varlistentry id="librpcsvc">
627<term><command>librpcsvc</command></term>
628<listitem>
629<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librpcsvc"><primary sortas="c-librpcsvc">librpcsvc</primary></indexterm>
630<para>contains functions providing miscellaneous RPC services.</para>
631</listitem>
632</varlistentry>
633
634<varlistentry id="librt">
635<term><command>librt</command></term>
636<listitem>
637<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt"><primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary></indexterm>
638<para>contains functions providing most of the
639interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para>
640</listitem>
641</varlistentry>
642
643<varlistentry id="libthread_db">
644<term><command>libthread_db</command></term>
645<listitem>
646<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db"><primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary></indexterm>
647<para>contains functions useful for
648building debuggers for multi-threaded programs.</para>
649</listitem>
650</varlistentry>
651
652<varlistentry id="libutil">
653<term><command>libutil</command></term>
654<listitem>
655<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil"><primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary></indexterm>
656<para>contains code for "standard" functions used in many different Unix utilities.</para>
657</listitem>
658</varlistentry>
659</variablelist>
660
661</sect2>
662
663</sect1>
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