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7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-glibc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>glibc</productname>
13 <productnumber>&glibc-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&glibc-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc">
20 <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The Glibc package contains the main C library. This library provides
27 the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and
28 closing files, reading and writing files, string handling, pattern matching,
29 arithmetic, and so on.</para>
30
31 <segmentedlist>
32 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
33 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
34
35 <seglistitem>
36 <seg>&glibc-fin-sbu;</seg>
37 <seg>&glibc-fin-du;</seg>
38 </seglistitem>
39 </segmentedlist>
40
41 </sect2>
42
43 <sect2 role="installation">
44 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
45
46<!-- applied in 2.35 (commit b805aebd42364fe696e417808a700fdb9800c9e8)
47 <para>First, fix a security problem identified upstream:</para>
48
49 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/NOTIFY_REMOVED)/s/)/ \&amp;\&amp; data.attr != NULL)/' \
50 -i sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c</userinput></screen>
51-->
52 <para>Some of the Glibc programs use the non-FHS compliant
53 <filename class="directory">/var/db</filename> directory to store
54 their runtime data. Apply the following patch to make such programs
55 store their runtime data in the FHS-compliant locations:</para>
56
57<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-fhs-patch;</userinput></screen>
58
59 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc
60 in a dedicated build directory:</para>
61
62<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v build
63cd build</userinput></screen>
64
65 <para>Ensure that the <command>ldconfig</command> and <command>sln</command>
66 utilites will be installed into
67 <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>:</para>
68
69<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo "rootsbindir=/usr/sbin" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen>
70
71 <para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
72
73<screen arch="default"><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr \
74 --disable-werror \
75 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
76 --enable-stack-protector=strong \
77 --with-headers=/usr/include \
78 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
79<screen arch="ml_32,ml_x32,ml_all"><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr \
80 --disable-werror \
81 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
82 --enable-stack-protector=strong \
83 --with-headers=/usr/include \
84 --enable-multi-arch \
85 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
86
87 <variablelist>
88 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
89
90 <varlistentry>
91 <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>This option disables the -Werror option passed to
94 GCC. This is necessary for running the test suite.</para>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 <varlistentry>
99 <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>This option tells the build system that this glibc may
102 be used with kernels as old as &min-kernel;. This means generating
103 workarounds in case a system call introduced in a later version
104 cannot be used.</para>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry>
109 <term><parameter>--enable-stack-protector=strong</parameter></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>This option increases system security by adding
112 extra code to check for buffer overflows, such as stack
113 smashing attacks.</para>
114 </listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116<!-- do we need this one? -->
117 <varlistentry>
118 <term><parameter>--with-headers=/usr/include</parameter></term>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>This option tells the build system where to find the
121 kernel API headers.</para>
122 </listitem>
123 </varlistentry>
124
125 <varlistentry>
126 <term><parameter>libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</parameter></term>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>This variable sets the correct library for all
129 systems. We do not want lib64 to be used.</para>
130 </listitem>
131 </varlistentry>
132
133 </variablelist>
134
135 <para>Compile the package:</para>
136
137<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
138
139 <important>
140 <para>In this section, the test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
141 Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
142 </important>
143
144 <para>Generally a few tests do not pass. The test failures listed below
145 are usually safe to ignore.</para>
146
147<!-- Use remap="make" here to work around a jhalfs issue. -->
148<!--<screen><userinput remap="make">case $(uname -m) in
149 i?86) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux.so.2 /lib ;;
150 x86_64) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib ;;
151esac</userinput></screen>
152
153 <note><para>The symbolic link above is needed to run the tests at this
154 stage of building in the chroot environment. It will be overwritten
155 in the install phase below.</para></note>
156-->
157<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
158
159 <para>You may see some test failures. The Glibc test suite is
160 somewhat dependent on the host system. A few failures out of
161 over 4200 tests can generally be ignored. This is a list of the
162 most common issues seen for recent versions of LFS:</para>
163
164 <itemizedlist>
165
166 <listitem>
167 <para><emphasis>io/tst-lchmod</emphasis>
168 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
169 </listitem>
170
171 <listitem>
172 <para><emphasis>misc/tst-ttyname</emphasis>
173 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
174 </listitem>
175
176 <listitem>
177 <para>The <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long</emphasis>
178 test is known to fail if the system has no non-loopback IP
179 addresses.</para> <!-- PR 24816 -->
180 </listitem>
181
182 <listitem>
183 <para>The <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis>
184 test is known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal
185 timeout.</para>
186 </listitem>
187<!--
188 <listitem>
189 <para>The <emphasis>rt/tst-cputimer{1,2,3}</emphasis> tests depend on
190 the host system kernel. Kernels 4.14.91&ndash;4.14.96,
191 4.19.13&ndash;4.19.18, and 4.20.0&ndash;4.20.5 are known to
192 cause these tests to fail.
193 </para>
194 </listitem>
195
196 <listitem>
197 <para>The math tests sometimes fail when running on
198 systems where the CPU is not a relatively new Intel or
199 AMD processor.</para>
200 </listitem>
201-->
202 </itemizedlist>
203
204 <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
205 complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
206 Prevent this warning with:</para>
207
208<screen><userinput remap="install">touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
209
210 <para>Fix the Makefile to skip an unneeded sanity check
211 that fails in the LFS partial environment:
212 </para>
213
214<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/test-installation/s@$(PERL)@echo not running@' -i ../Makefile</userinput></screen>
215
216 <para>Install the package:</para>
217
218<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
219
220 <para>Fix hardcoded path to the executable loader in
221 <command>ldd</command> script:</para>
222
223<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/RTLDLIST=/s@/usr@@g' -i /usr/bin/ldd</userinput></screen>
224
225 <para>Install the configuration file and runtime directory for
226 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
227
228<screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../nscd/nscd.conf /etc/nscd.conf
229mkdir -pv /var/cache/nscd</userinput></screen>
230
231 <para revision="systemd">Install the systemd support files for
232 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
233
234 <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="install">install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.tmpfiles /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf
235install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service</userinput></screen>
236
237 <para>Next, install the locales that can make the system respond in a
238 different language. None of the locales are required, but if some of them
239 are missing, the test suites of future packages would skip important
240 testcases.</para>
241
242 <para>Individual locales can be installed using the
243 <command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the second
244 <command>localedef</command> command below combines the
245 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/locales/cs_CZ</filename>
246 charset-independent locale definition with the
247 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz</filename>
248 charmap definition and appends the result to the
249 <filename>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive</filename> file.
250 The following instructions will install the minimum set of
251 locales necessary for the optimal coverage of tests:</para>
252
253<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-test">mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
254localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
255localedef -i cs_CZ -f UTF-8 cs_CZ.UTF-8
256localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
257localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
258localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8
259localedef -i el_GR -f ISO-8859-7 el_GR
260localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-1 en_GB
261localedef -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
262localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
263localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
264localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
265localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
266localedef -i es_ES -f ISO-8859-15 es_ES@euro
267localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
268localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
269localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
270localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
271localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8
272localedef -i is_IS -f ISO-8859-1 is_IS
273localedef -i is_IS -f UTF-8 is_IS.UTF-8
274localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
275localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-15 it_IT@euro
276localedef -i it_IT -f UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8
277localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP
278localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true
279localedef -i ja_JP -f UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8
280localedef -i nl_NL@euro -f ISO-8859-15 nl_NL@euro
281localedef -i ru_RU -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
282localedef -i ru_RU -f UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
283localedef -i se_NO -f UTF-8 se_NO.UTF-8
284localedef -i ta_IN -f UTF-8 ta_IN.UTF-8
285localedef -i tr_TR -f UTF-8 tr_TR.UTF-8
286localedef -i zh_CN -f GB18030 zh_CN.GB18030
287localedef -i zh_HK -f BIG5-HKSCS zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS
288localedef -i zh_TW -f UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8</userinput></screen>
289
290 <para>In addition, install the locale for your own country, language and
291 character set.</para>
292
293 <para>Alternatively, install all locales listed in the
294 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
295 (it includes every locale listed above and many more) at once with the
296 following time-consuming command:</para>
297
298<screen><userinput remap="locale-full">make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
299
300 <para>Then use the <command>localedef</command> command to create and
301 install locales not listed in the
302 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
303 when you need them. For instance, the following two locales are
304 needed for some tests later in this chapter:</para>
305
306<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-full">localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
307localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true</userinput></screen>
308
309 <note><para>Glibc now uses libidn2 when resolving internationalized
310 domain names. This is a run time dependency. If this capability
311 is needed, the instructions for installing libidn2 are in the
312 <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/libidn2.html">BLFS libidn2 page</ulink>.
313 </para></note>
314
315 </sect2>
316
317 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
318 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
319
320 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
321 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
322 </indexterm>
323
324 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
325 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
326 </indexterm>
327
328 <sect3>
329 <title>Adding nsswitch.conf</title>
330
331 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
332 because the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment.
333 </para>
334
335 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
336 following:</para>
337
338<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
339<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
340
341passwd: files
342group: files
343shadow: files
344
345hosts: files dns
346networks: files
347
348protocols: files
349services: files
350ethers: files
351rpc: files
352
353# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
354EOF</userinput></screen>
355
356 </sect3>
357
358 <sect3>
359 <title>Adding time zone data</title>
360
361 <para>Install and set up the time zone data with the following:</para>
362<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../../tzdata&tzdata-version;.tar.gz
363
364ZONEINFO=/usr/share/zoneinfo
365mkdir -pv $ZONEINFO/{posix,right}
366
367for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica \
368 asia australasia backward; do
369 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO ${tz}
370 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO/posix ${tz}
371 zic -L leapseconds -d $ZONEINFO/right ${tz}
372done
373
374cp -v zone.tab zone1970.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO
375zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York
376unset ZONEINFO</userinput></screen>
377
378 <variablelist>
379 <title>The meaning of the zic commands:</title>
380
381 <varlistentry>
382 <term><parameter>zic -L /dev/null ...</parameter></term>
383 <listitem>
384 <para>This creates posix time zones without any leap seconds. It is
385 conventional to put these in both
386 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename> and
387 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo/posix</filename>. It is
388 necessary to put the POSIX time zones in
389 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename>, otherwise various
390 test-suites will report errors. On an embedded system, where space is
391 tight and you do not intend to ever update the time zones, you could save
392 1.9 MB by not using the <filename class="directory">posix</filename>
393 directory, but some applications or test-suites might produce some
394 failures.</para>
395 </listitem>
396 </varlistentry>
397 <varlistentry>
398 <term><parameter>zic -L leapseconds ...</parameter></term>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>This creates right time zones, including leap seconds. On an
401 embedded system, where space is tight and you do not intend to
402 ever update the time zones, or care about the correct time, you could
403 save 1.9MB by omitting the <filename class="directory">right</filename>
404 directory.</para>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
407 <varlistentry>
408 <term><parameter>zic ... -p ...</parameter></term>
409 <listitem>
410 <para>This creates the <filename>posixrules</filename> file. We use
411 New York because POSIX requires the daylight savings time rules
412 to be in accordance with US rules.</para>
413 </listitem>
414 </varlistentry>
415 </variablelist>
416
417
418 <para>One way to determine the local time zone is to run the following
419 script:</para>
420
421<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
422
423 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
424 output the name of the time zone (e.g.,
425 <emphasis>America/Edmonton</emphasis>). There are also some other possible
426 time zones listed in <filename
427 class='directory'>/usr/share/zoneinfo</filename> such as
428 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis> or <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> that
429 are not identified by the script but can be used.</para>
430
431 <para>Then create the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by
432 running:</para>
433
434<screen><userinput>ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
435
436 <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the
437 time zone selected (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
438
439 </sect3>
440
441 <sect3 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
442 <title>Configuring the Dynamic Loader</title>
443
444 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
445 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
446 </indexterm>
447
448 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
449 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
450 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename
451 class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries that are
452 needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are libraries in
453 directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
454 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be added
455 to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order for the
456 dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known
457 to contain additional libraries are <filename
458 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
459 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
460 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
461
462 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
463 following:</para>
464
465<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
466<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
467/usr/local/lib
468/opt/lib
469</literal>
470EOF</userinput></screen>
471
472 <para>If desired, the dynamic loader can also search a directory and
473 include the contents of files found there. Generally the files in
474 this include directory are one line specifying the desired library path.
475 To add this capability run the following commands:</para>
476
477<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
478<literal># Add an include directory
479include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
480</literal>
481EOF
482mkdir -pv /etc/ld.so.conf.d</userinput></screen>
483
484 </sect3>
485 </sect2>
486
487 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
488 <!-- Multilib - 32bit -->
489 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
490 <sect2 arch="ml_32,ml_all">
491 <title>Building Glibc - 32bit</title>
492
493 <para>Now recompile for m32. The extracted source can be
494 reused but needs to be cleaned before installing the m32
495 version of Glibc.</para>
496
497 <para>Clear the build directory and remove artefacts from
498 previous build:</para>
499
500<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf ./*
501find .. -name "*.a" -delete</userinput></screen>
502
503 <para>Configure Glibc for m32 with the following commands:</para>
504
505<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" \
506../configure \
507 --prefix=/usr \
508 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
509 --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
510 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
511 --with-headers=/usr/include \
512 --enable-multi-arch \
513 --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
514 --libexecdir=/usr/lib32 \
515 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib32</userinput></screen>
516
517 <para>Compile the package:</para>
518
519<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
520
521 <para>Install the package:</para>
522
523<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
524cp -a DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32/
525install -vm644 DESTDIR/usr/include/gnu/{lib-names,stubs}-32.h \
526 /usr/include/gnu/</userinput></screen>
527<!-- no longer required as they are created in chap5
528ln -svf ../lib32/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
529-->
530
531 <para>Add the library name to the dynamic loader config:</para>
532
533<screen role="install"><userinput>echo "/usr/lib32" &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
534
535 <caution>
536 <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
537 functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
538 expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
539
540<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
541gcc -m32 dummy.c
542readelf -l a.out | grep '/ld-linux'</userinput></screen>
543
544 <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
545 and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
546
547<screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
548
549 <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
550 then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
551 where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
552 continuing on.</para>
553
554 <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
555
556<screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
557
558 </caution>
559
560 </sect2><!-- m32 -->
561
562 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
563 <!-- Multilib - x32bit -->
564 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
565
566 <sect2 arch="ml_x32,ml_all">
567 <title>Building Glibc - x32bit</title>
568
569 <para>Now recompile for mx32. The extracted source can be
570 reused but needs to be cleaned before installing the mx32
571 version of Glibc.</para>
572
573 <para>Clear the build directory and remove artefacts from
574 previous build:</para>
575
576<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf ./*
577find .. -name "*.a" -delete</userinput></screen>
578
579 <para>Configure Glibc for mx32 with the following commands:</para>
580
581<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -mx32" CXX="g++ -mx32" \
582../configure \
583 --prefix=/usr \
584 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnux32 \
585 --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
586 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
587 --with-headers=/usr/include \
588 --enable-multi-arch \
589 --libdir=/usr/libx32 \
590 --libexecdir=/usr/libx32 \
591 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/libx32</userinput></screen>
592
593 <para>Compile the package:</para>
594
595<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
596
597 <para>Install the package:</para>
598
599<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
600cp -a DESTDIR/usr/libx32/* /usr/libx32/
601install -vm644 DESTDIR/usr/include/gnu/{lib-names,stubs}-x32.h \
602 /usr/include/gnu/</userinput></screen>
603<!-- no longer required as they are created in chap5
604ln -svf ../libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2 /lib/ld-linux-x32.so.2
605-->
606 <para>Add the library name to the dynamic loader config:</para>
607
608<screen role="install"><userinput>echo "/usr/libx32" &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
609
610 <caution>
611 <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
612 functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
613 expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
614
615<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
616gcc -mx32 dummy.c
617readelf -l a.out | grep '/ld-linux-x32'</userinput></screen>
618
619 <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
620 and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
621
622<screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
623
624 <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
625 then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
626 where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
627 continuing on.</para>
628
629 <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
630
631<screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
632
633 </caution>
634
635 </sect2><!-- mx32 -->
636
637 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
638 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
639
640 <segmentedlist>
641 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
642 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
643 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
644
645 <seglistitem>
646 <seg>gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
647 ldd, lddlibc4,
648 ld.so (symlink to ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 or ld-linux.so.2),
649 locale, localedef, makedb, mtrace, nscd,
650 pcprofiledump, pldd, sln, sotruss, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
651 zdump, and zic</seg>
652 <seg>ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, ld-linux.so.2,
653 libBrokenLocale.{a,so}, libanl.{a,so},
654 libc.{a,so}, libc_nonshared.a, libc_malloc_debug.so,
655 libcrypt.{a,so}, libdl.{a,so.2}, libg.a, libm.{a,so},
656 libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libmvec.{a,so}, libnsl.so.1,
657 libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
658 libpcprofile.so, libpthread.{a,so.0},
659 libresolv.{a,so}, librt.{a,so.1},
660 libthread_db.so, and libutil.{a,so.1}</seg>
661 <seg>/usr/include/arpa, /usr/include/bits, /usr/include/gnu,
662 /usr/include/net, /usr/include/netash, /usr/include/netatalk,
663 /usr/include/netax25, /usr/include/neteconet, /usr/include/netinet,
664 /usr/include/netipx, /usr/include/netiucv, /usr/include/netpacket,
665 /usr/include/netrom, /usr/include/netrose, /usr/include/nfs,
666 /usr/include/protocols, /usr/include/rpc,
667 /usr/include/sys, /usr/lib/audit, /usr/lib/gconv, /usr/lib/locale,
668 /usr/libexec/getconf, /usr/share/i18n, /usr/share/zoneinfo,
669 /var/cache/nscd, and /var/lib/nss_db</seg>
670 </seglistitem>
671 </segmentedlist>
672
673 <variablelist>
674 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
675 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
676 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
677
678 <varlistentry id="gencat">
679 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
680 <listitem>
681 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
682 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
683 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
684 </indexterm>
685 </listitem>
686 </varlistentry>
687
688 <varlistentry id="getconf">
689 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
690 <listitem>
691 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system
692 specific variables</para>
693 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
694 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
695 </indexterm>
696 </listitem>
697 </varlistentry>
698
699 <varlistentry id="getent">
700 <term><command>getent</command></term>
701 <listitem>
702 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
703 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
704 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
705 </indexterm>
706 </listitem>
707 </varlistentry>
708
709 <varlistentry id="iconv">
710 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
711 <listitem>
712 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
713 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
714 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
715 </indexterm>
716 </listitem>
717 </varlistentry>
718
719 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
720 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
721 <listitem>
722 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
723 files</para>
724 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
725 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
726 </indexterm>
727 </listitem>
728 </varlistentry>
729
730 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
731 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
732 <listitem>
733 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
734 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
735 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
736 </indexterm>
737 </listitem>
738 </varlistentry>
739
740 <varlistentry id="ldd">
741 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
742 <listitem>
743 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
744 by each given program or shared library</para>
745 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
746 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
747 </indexterm>
748 </listitem>
749 </varlistentry>
750
751 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
752 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
753 <listitem>
754 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files.
755 It does not exist on newer architectures like x86_64</para>
756 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
757 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
758 </indexterm>
759 </listitem>
760 </varlistentry>
761
762 <varlistentry id="locale">
763 <term><command>locale</command></term>
764 <listitem>
765 <para>Prints various information about the current locale</para>
766 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
767 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
768 </indexterm>
769 </listitem>
770 </varlistentry>
771
772 <varlistentry id="localedef">
773 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
774 <listitem>
775 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
776 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
777 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
778 </indexterm>
779 </listitem>
780 </varlistentry>
781
782 <varlistentry id="makedb">
783 <term><command>makedb</command></term>
784 <listitem>
785 <para>Creates a simple database from textual input</para>
786 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc makedb">
787 <primary sortas="b-makedb">makedb</primary>
788 </indexterm>
789 </listitem>
790 </varlistentry>
791
792 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
793 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
794 <listitem>
795 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary
796 in human-readable format</para>
797 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
798 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
799 </indexterm>
800 </listitem>
801 </varlistentry>
802
803 <varlistentry id="nscd">
804 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
805 <listitem>
806 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
807 service requests</para>
808 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
809 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
810 </indexterm>
811 </listitem>
812 </varlistentry>
813
814 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
815 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
816 <listitem>
817 <para>Dump information generated by PC profiling</para>
818 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
819 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
820 </indexterm>
821 </listitem>
822 </varlistentry>
823
824 <varlistentry id="pldd">
825 <term><command>pldd</command></term>
826 <listitem>
827 <para>Lists dynamic shared objects used by running processes</para>
828 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pldd">
829 <primary sortas="b-pldd">pldd</primary>
830 </indexterm>
831 </listitem>
832 </varlistentry>
833
834 <varlistentry id="sln">
835 <term><command>sln</command></term>
836 <listitem>
837 <para>A statically linked <command>ln</command> program</para>
838 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
839 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
840 </indexterm>
841 </listitem>
842 </varlistentry>
843
844 <varlistentry id="sotruss">
845 <term><command>sotruss</command></term>
846 <listitem>
847 <para>Traces shared library procedure calls of a specified command</para>
848 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sotruss">
849 <primary sortas="b-sotruss">sotruss</primary>
850 </indexterm>
851 </listitem>
852 </varlistentry>
853
854 <varlistentry id="sprof">
855 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
856 <listitem>
857 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
858 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
859 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
860 </indexterm>
861 </listitem>
862 </varlistentry>
863
864 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
865 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
866 <listitem>
867 <para>Asks the user about the location of the system and reports
868 the corresponding time zone description</para>
869 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
870 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
871 </indexterm>
872 </listitem>
873 </varlistentry>
874
875 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
876 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
877 <listitem>
878 <para>Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently
879 executed function</para>
880 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
881 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
882 </indexterm>
883 </listitem>
884 </varlistentry>
885
886 <varlistentry id="zdump">
887 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
888 <listitem>
889 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
890 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
891 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
892 </indexterm>
893 </listitem>
894 </varlistentry>
895
896 <varlistentry id="zic">
897 <term><command>zic</command></term>
898 <listitem>
899 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
900 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
901 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
902 </indexterm>
903 </listitem>
904 </varlistentry>
905
906 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
907 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld-*.so</filename></term>
908 <listitem>
909 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
910 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
911 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld-&glibc-version;.so</primary>
912 </indexterm>
913 </listitem>
914 </varlistentry>
915
916 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
917 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
918 <listitem>
919 <para>Used internally by Glibc as a gross hack to get broken programs
920 (e.g., some Motif applications) running. See comments in
921 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/locale/broken_cur_max.c</filename>
922 for more information</para>
923 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
924 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
925 </indexterm>
926 </listitem>
927 </varlistentry>
928
929 <varlistentry id="libanl">
930 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
931 <listitem>
932 <para>An asynchronous name lookup library</para>
933 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
934 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
935 </indexterm>
936 </listitem>
937 </varlistentry>
938
939 <varlistentry id="libc">
940 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
941 <listitem>
942 <para>The main C library</para>
943 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
944 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
945 </indexterm>
946 </listitem>
947 </varlistentry>
948
949 <varlistentry id="libc_malloc_debug">
950 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc_malloc_debug</filename></term>
951 <listitem>
952 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when preloaded</para>
953 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc_malloc_debug">
954 <primary sortas="c-libc_malloc_debug">libc_malloc_debug</primary>
955 </indexterm>
956 </listitem>
957 </varlistentry>
958
959 <varlistentry id="libcrypt">
960 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcrypt</filename></term>
961 <listitem>
962 <para>The cryptography library</para>
963 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcrypt">
964 <primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary>
965 </indexterm>
966 </listitem>
967 </varlistentry>
968
969 <varlistentry id="libdl">
970 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
971 <listitem>
972 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
973 dynamic linking interface library, whose functions are now in
974 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
975 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
976 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
977 </indexterm>
978 </listitem>
979 </varlistentry>
980
981 <varlistentry id="libg">
982 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
983 <listitem>
984 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was a runtime
985 library for <command>g++</command></para>
986 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
987 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
988 </indexterm>
989 </listitem>
990 </varlistentry>
991
992 <varlistentry id="libm">
993 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
994 <listitem>
995 <para>The mathematical library</para>
996 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
997 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
998 </indexterm>
999 </listitem>
1000 </varlistentry>
1001
1002 <varlistentry id="libmvec">
1003 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmvec</filename></term>
1004 <listitem>
1005 <para>The vector math library, linked in as needed
1006 when <filename class='libraryfile'>libm</filename> is used</para>
1007 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmvec">
1008 <primary sortas="c-libmvec">libmvec</primary>
1009 </indexterm>
1010 </listitem>
1011 </varlistentry>
1012
1013 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
1014 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
1015 <listitem>
1016 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when linked to</para>
1017 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
1018 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
1019 </indexterm>
1020 </listitem>
1021 </varlistentry>
1022
1023 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
1024 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
1025 <listitem>
1026 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> to help collect
1027 information about the memory usage of a program</para>
1028 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
1029 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
1030 </indexterm>
1031 </listitem>
1032 </varlistentry>
1033
1034 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
1035 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
1036 <listitem>
1037 <para>The network services library, now deprecated</para>
1038 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
1039 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
1040 </indexterm>
1041 </listitem>
1042 </varlistentry>
1043
1044 <varlistentry id="libnss">
1045 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss_*</filename></term>
1046 <listitem>
1047 <para>The Name Service Switch modules, containing functions for
1048 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
1049 protocols, etc. Loaded by
1050 <filename class='libraryfile'>libc</filename> according to the
1051 configuration in <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename></para>
1052 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
1053 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss_*</primary>
1054 </indexterm>
1055 </listitem>
1056 </varlistentry>
1057
1058 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
1059 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
1060 <listitem>
1061 <para>Can be preloaded to PC profile an executable</para>
1062 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
1063 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
1064 </indexterm>
1065 </listitem>
1066 </varlistentry>
1067
1068 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
1069 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
1070 <listitem>
1071 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
1072 functions providing most of the interfaces specified
1073 by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension, now the functions are in
1074 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
1075 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
1076 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
1077 </indexterm>
1078 </listitem>
1079 </varlistentry>
1080
1081 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
1082 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
1083 <listitem>
1084 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
1085 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
1086 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
1087 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
1088 </indexterm>
1089 </listitem>
1090 </varlistentry>
1091
1092 <varlistentry id="librt">
1093 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
1094 <listitem>
1095 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified
1096 by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension</para>
1097 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
1098 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
1099 </indexterm>
1100 </listitem>
1101 </varlistentry>
1102
1103 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
1104 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
1105 <listitem>
1106 <para>Contains functions useful for building debuggers for
1107 multi-threaded programs</para>
1108 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
1109 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
1110 </indexterm>
1111 </listitem>
1112 </varlistentry>
1113
1114 <varlistentry id="libutil">
1115 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
1116 <listitem>
1117 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
1118 code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
1119 many different Unix utilities. These functions are now in
1120 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
1121 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
1122 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
1123 </indexterm>
1124 </listitem>
1125 </varlistentry>
1126
1127 </variablelist>
1128
1129 </sect2>
1130
1131</sect1>
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