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