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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 <para>Some of the Glibc programs use the non-FHS compliant
47 <filename class="directory">/var/db</filename> directory to store
48 their runtime data. Apply the following patch to make such programs
49 store their runtime data in the FHS-compliant locations:</para>
50
51<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-fhs-patch;</userinput></screen>
52
53 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc
54 in a dedicated build directory:</para>
55
56<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v build
57cd build</userinput></screen>
58
59 <para>Ensure that the <command>ldconfig</command> and <command>sln</command>
60 utilities will be installed into
61 <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>:</para>
62
63<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo "rootsbindir=/usr/sbin" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen>
64
65 <para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
66
67<screen arch="default"><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr \
68 --disable-werror \
69 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
70 --enable-stack-protector=strong \
71 --with-headers=/usr/include \
72 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
73<screen arch="ml_32,ml_x32,ml_all"><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 --enable-multi-arch \
79 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
80
81 <variablelist>
82 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
83
84 <varlistentry>
85 <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>This option disables the -Werror option passed to
88 GCC. This is necessary for running the test suite.</para>
89 </listitem>
90 </varlistentry>
91
92 <varlistentry>
93 <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>This option tells the build system that this Glibc may
96 be used with kernels as old as &min-kernel;. This means generating
97 workarounds in case a system call introduced in a later version
98 cannot be used.</para>
99 </listitem>
100 </varlistentry>
101
102 <varlistentry>
103 <term><parameter>--enable-stack-protector=strong</parameter></term>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>This option increases system security by adding
106 extra code to check for buffer overflows, such as stack
107 smashing attacks.</para>
108 </listitem>
109 </varlistentry>
110<!-- do we need this one? -->
111 <varlistentry>
112 <term><parameter>--with-headers=/usr/include</parameter></term>
113 <listitem>
114 <para>This option tells the build system where to find the
115 kernel API headers.</para>
116 </listitem>
117 </varlistentry>
118
119 <varlistentry>
120 <term><parameter>libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</parameter></term>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>This variable sets the correct library for all
123 systems. We do not want lib64 to be used.</para>
124 </listitem>
125 </varlistentry>
126
127 </variablelist>
128
129 <para>Compile the package:</para>
130
131<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
132
133 <important>
134 <para>In this section, the test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
135 Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
136 </important>
137
138 <para>Generally a few tests do not pass. The test failures listed below
139 are usually safe to ignore.</para>
140
141<!-- Use remap="make" here to work around a jhalfs issue. -->
142<!--<screen><userinput remap="make">case $(uname -m) in
143 i?86) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux.so.2 /lib ;;
144 x86_64) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib ;;
145esac</userinput></screen>
146
147 <note><para>The symbolic link above is needed to run the tests at this
148 stage of building in the chroot environment. It will be overwritten
149 in the install phase below.</para></note>
150-->
151<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
152
153 <para>You may see some test failures. The Glibc test suite is
154 somewhat dependent on the host system. A few failures out of
155 over 5000 tests can generally be ignored. This is a list of the
156 most common issues seen for recent versions of LFS:</para>
157
158 <itemizedlist>
159
160 <listitem>
161 <para><emphasis>io/tst-lchmod</emphasis>
162 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
163 </listitem>
164
165<!-- Did not fail with glibc-2.38
166 <listitem>
167 <para><emphasis>misc/tst-ttyname</emphasis>
168 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
169 </listitem>
170-->
171
172 <!-- https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-August/141567.html -->
173 <listitem>
174 <para>The <emphasis>stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread</emphasis>
175 test is known to fail if the host kernel is relatively old.</para>
176 </listitem>
177
178 <listitem>
179 <para>Some tests, for example
180 <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis>,
181 are known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal
182 timeout.</para>
183 </listitem>
184
185 <listitem>
186 <para>Additionally, some tests may fail with a relatively old CPU
187 model or host kernel version.</para>
188 </listitem>
189 </itemizedlist>
190
191 <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
192 complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
193 Prevent this warning with:</para>
194
195<screen><userinput remap="install">touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
196
197 <!-- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21911 -->
198 <para>Fix the Makefile to skip an outdated sanity check
199 that fails with a modern Glibc configuration:</para>
200
201<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/test-installation/s@$(PERL)@echo not running@' -i ../Makefile</userinput></screen>
202
203 <para>Install the package:</para>
204
205<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
206
207 <para>Fix a hardcoded path to the executable loader in the
208 <command>ldd</command> script:</para>
209
210<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/RTLDLIST=/s@/usr@@g' -i /usr/bin/ldd</userinput></screen>
211
212 <para>Install the configuration file and runtime directory for
213 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
214
215<screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../nscd/nscd.conf /etc/nscd.conf
216mkdir -pv /var/cache/nscd</userinput></screen>
217
218 <para revision="systemd">Install the systemd support files for
219 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
220
221 <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="install">install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.tmpfiles /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf
222install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service</userinput></screen>
223
224 <para>Next, install the locales that can make the system respond in a
225 different language. None of these locales are required, but if some of them
226 are missing, the test suites of some packages will skip important
227 test cases.</para>
228
229 <para>Individual locales can be installed using the
230 <command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the second
231 <command>localedef</command> command below combines the
232 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/locales/cs_CZ</filename>
233 charset-independent locale definition with the
234 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz</filename>
235 charmap definition and appends the result to the
236 <filename>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive</filename> file.
237 The following instructions will install the minimum set of
238 locales necessary for the optimal coverage of tests:</para>
239
240<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-test">mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
241localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
242localedef -i cs_CZ -f UTF-8 cs_CZ.UTF-8
243localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
244localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
245localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8
246localedef -i el_GR -f ISO-8859-7 el_GR
247localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-1 en_GB
248localedef -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
249localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
250localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
251localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
252localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
253localedef -i es_ES -f ISO-8859-15 es_ES@euro
254localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
255localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
256localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
257localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
258localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8
259localedef -i is_IS -f ISO-8859-1 is_IS
260localedef -i is_IS -f UTF-8 is_IS.UTF-8
261localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
262localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-15 it_IT@euro
263localedef -i it_IT -f UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8
264localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP
265localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true
266localedef -i ja_JP -f UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8
267localedef -i nl_NL@euro -f ISO-8859-15 nl_NL@euro
268localedef -i ru_RU -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
269localedef -i ru_RU -f UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
270localedef -i se_NO -f UTF-8 se_NO.UTF-8
271localedef -i ta_IN -f UTF-8 ta_IN.UTF-8
272localedef -i tr_TR -f UTF-8 tr_TR.UTF-8
273localedef -i zh_CN -f GB18030 zh_CN.GB18030
274localedef -i zh_HK -f BIG5-HKSCS zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS
275localedef -i zh_TW -f UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8</userinput></screen>
276
277 <para>In addition, install the locale for your own country, language and
278 character set.</para>
279
280 <para>Alternatively, install all the locales listed in the
281 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
282 (it includes every locale listed above and many more) at once with the
283 following time-consuming command:</para>
284
285<screen><userinput remap="locale-full">make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
286
287 <para>Then use the <command>localedef</command> command to create and
288 install locales not listed in the
289 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
290 when you need them. For instance, the following two locales are
291 needed for some tests later in this chapter:</para>
292
293<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-full">localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
294localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true</userinput></screen>
295
296 <note><para>Glibc now uses libidn2 when resolving internationalized
297 domain names. This is a run time dependency. If this capability
298 is needed, the instructions for installing libidn2 are in the
299 <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/libidn2.html">BLFS libidn2 page</ulink>.
300 </para></note>
301
302 </sect2>
303
304 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
305 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
306
307 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
308 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
309 </indexterm>
310
311 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
312 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
313 </indexterm>
314
315 <sect3>
316 <title>Adding nsswitch.conf</title>
317
318 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
319 because the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment.
320 </para>
321
322 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
323 following:</para>
324
325<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
326<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
327
328passwd: files
329group: files
330shadow: files
331
332hosts: files dns
333networks: files
334
335protocols: files
336services: files
337ethers: files
338rpc: files
339
340# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
341EOF</userinput></screen>
342
343 </sect3>
344
345 <sect3>
346 <title>Adding Time Zone Data</title>
347
348 <para>Install and set up the time zone data with the following:</para>
349<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../../tzdata&tzdata-version;.tar.gz
350
351ZONEINFO=/usr/share/zoneinfo
352mkdir -pv $ZONEINFO/{posix,right}
353
354for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica \
355 asia australasia backward; do
356 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO ${tz}
357 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO/posix ${tz}
358 zic -L leapseconds -d $ZONEINFO/right ${tz}
359done
360
361cp -v zone.tab zone1970.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO
362zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York
363unset ZONEINFO</userinput></screen>
364
365 <variablelist>
366 <title>The meaning of the zic commands:</title>
367
368 <varlistentry>
369 <term><parameter>zic -L /dev/null ...</parameter></term>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>This creates posix time zones without any leap seconds. It is
372 conventional to put these in both
373 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename> and
374 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo/posix</filename>. It is
375 necessary to put the POSIX time zones in
376 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename>, otherwise various
377 test suites will report errors. On an embedded system, where space is
378 tight and you do not intend to ever update the time zones, you could save
379 1.9 MB by not using the <filename class="directory">posix</filename>
380 directory, but some applications or test suites might produce some
381 failures.</para>
382 </listitem>
383 </varlistentry>
384 <varlistentry>
385 <term><parameter>zic -L leapseconds ...</parameter></term>
386 <listitem>
387 <para>This creates right time zones, including leap seconds. On an
388 embedded system, where space is tight and you do not intend to
389 ever update the time zones, or care about the correct time, you could
390 save 1.9MB by omitting the <filename class="directory">right</filename>
391 directory.</para>
392 </listitem>
393 </varlistentry>
394 <varlistentry>
395 <term><parameter>zic ... -p ...</parameter></term>
396 <listitem>
397 <para>This creates the <filename>posixrules</filename> file. We use
398 New York because POSIX requires the daylight savings time rules
399 to be in accordance with US rules.</para>
400 </listitem>
401 </varlistentry>
402 </variablelist>
403
404
405 <para>One way to determine the local time zone is to run the following
406 script:</para>
407
408<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
409
410 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
411 output the name of the time zone (e.g.,
412 <emphasis>America/Edmonton</emphasis>). There are also some other possible
413 time zones listed in <filename
414 class='directory'>/usr/share/zoneinfo</filename> such as
415 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis> or <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> that
416 are not identified by the script but can be used.</para>
417
418 <para>Then create the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by
419 running:</para>
420
421<screen><userinput>ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
422
423 <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the
424 time zone selected (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
425
426 </sect3>
427
428 <sect3 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
429 <title>Configuring the Dynamic Loader</title>
430
431 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
432 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
433 </indexterm>
434
435 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
436 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
437 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries
438 that are needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are
439 libraries in directories other than
440 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be added
441 to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order for the
442 dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known
443 to contain additional libraries are <filename
444 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
445 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
446 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
447
448 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
449 following:</para>
450
451<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
452<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
453/usr/local/lib
454/opt/lib
455</literal>
456EOF</userinput></screen>
457
458 <para>If desired, the dynamic loader can also search a directory and
459 include the contents of files found there. Generally the files in
460 this include directory are one line specifying the desired library path.
461 To add this capability run the following commands:</para>
462
463<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
464<literal># Add an include directory
465include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
466</literal>
467EOF
468mkdir -pv /etc/ld.so.conf.d</userinput></screen>
469
470 </sect3>
471 </sect2>
472
473 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
474 <!-- Multilib - 32bit -->
475 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
476 <sect2 arch="ml_32,ml_all">
477 <title>Building Glibc - 32bit</title>
478
479 <para>Now recompile for m32. The extracted source can be
480 reused but needs to be cleaned before installing the m32
481 version of Glibc.</para>
482
483 <para>Clear the build directory and remove artefacts from
484 previous build:</para>
485
486<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf ./*
487find .. -name "*.a" -delete</userinput></screen>
488
489 <para>Configure Glibc for m32 with the following commands:</para>
490
491<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" \
492../configure \
493 --prefix=/usr \
494 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
495 --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
496 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
497 --with-headers=/usr/include \
498 --enable-multi-arch \
499 --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
500 --libexecdir=/usr/lib32 \
501 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib32</userinput></screen>
502
503 <para>Compile the package:</para>
504
505<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
506
507 <para>Install the package:</para>
508
509<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
510cp -a DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32/
511install -vm644 DESTDIR/usr/include/gnu/{lib-names,stubs}-32.h \
512 /usr/include/gnu/</userinput></screen>
513<!-- no longer required as they are created in chap5
514ln -svf ../lib32/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
515-->
516
517 <para>Add the library name to the dynamic loader config:</para>
518
519<screen role="install"><userinput>echo "/usr/lib32" &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
520
521 <caution>
522 <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
523 functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
524 expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
525
526<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
527gcc -m32 dummy.c
528readelf -l a.out | grep '/ld-linux'</userinput></screen>
529
530 <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
531 and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
532
533<screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
534
535 <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
536 then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
537 where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
538 continuing on.</para>
539
540 <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
541
542<screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
543
544 </caution>
545
546 </sect2><!-- m32 -->
547
548 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
549 <!-- Multilib - x32bit -->
550 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
551
552 <sect2 arch="ml_x32,ml_all">
553 <title>Building Glibc - x32bit</title>
554
555 <para>Now recompile for mx32. The extracted source can be
556 reused but needs to be cleaned before installing the mx32
557 version of Glibc.</para>
558
559 <para>Clear the build directory and remove artefacts from
560 previous build:</para>
561
562<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf ./*
563find .. -name "*.a" -delete</userinput></screen>
564
565 <para>Configure Glibc for mx32 with the following commands:</para>
566
567<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -mx32" CXX="g++ -mx32" \
568../configure \
569 --prefix=/usr \
570 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnux32 \
571 --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
572 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
573 --with-headers=/usr/include \
574 --enable-multi-arch \
575 --libdir=/usr/libx32 \
576 --libexecdir=/usr/libx32 \
577 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/libx32</userinput></screen>
578
579 <para>Compile the package:</para>
580
581<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
582
583 <para>Install the package:</para>
584
585<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
586cp -a DESTDIR/usr/libx32/* /usr/libx32/
587install -vm644 DESTDIR/usr/include/gnu/{lib-names,stubs}-x32.h \
588 /usr/include/gnu/</userinput></screen>
589<!-- no longer required as they are created in chap5
590ln -svf ../libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2 /lib/ld-linux-x32.so.2
591-->
592 <para>Add the library name to the dynamic loader config:</para>
593
594<screen role="install"><userinput>echo "/usr/libx32" &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
595
596 <caution>
597 <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
598 functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
599 expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
600
601<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
602gcc -mx32 dummy.c
603readelf -l a.out | grep '/ld-linux-x32'</userinput></screen>
604
605 <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
606 and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
607
608<screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
609
610 <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
611 then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
612 where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
613 continuing on.</para>
614
615 <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
616
617<screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
618
619 </caution>
620
621 </sect2><!-- mx32 -->
622
623 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
624 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
625
626 <segmentedlist>
627 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
628 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
629 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
630
631 <seglistitem>
632 <seg>gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
633 ldd, lddlibc4,
634 ld.so (symlink to ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 or ld-linux.so.2),
635 locale, localedef, makedb, mtrace, nscd,
636 pcprofiledump, pldd, sln, sotruss, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
637 zdump, and zic</seg>
638 <seg>ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, ld-linux.so.2,
639 libBrokenLocale.{a,so}, libanl.{a,so},
640 libc.{a,so}, libc_nonshared.a, libc_malloc_debug.so,
641 libdl.{a,so.2}, libg.a, libm.{a,so},
642 libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libmvec.{a,so}, libnsl.so.1,
643 libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
644 libpcprofile.so, libpthread.{a,so.0},
645 libresolv.{a,so}, librt.{a,so.1},
646 libthread_db.so, and libutil.{a,so.1}</seg>
647 <seg>/usr/include/arpa, /usr/include/bits, /usr/include/gnu,
648 /usr/include/net, /usr/include/netash, /usr/include/netatalk,
649 /usr/include/netax25, /usr/include/neteconet, /usr/include/netinet,
650 /usr/include/netipx, /usr/include/netiucv, /usr/include/netpacket,
651 /usr/include/netrom, /usr/include/netrose, /usr/include/nfs,
652 /usr/include/protocols, /usr/include/rpc,
653 /usr/include/sys, /usr/lib/audit, /usr/lib/gconv, /usr/lib/locale,
654 /usr/libexec/getconf, /usr/share/i18n, /usr/share/zoneinfo,
655 /var/cache/nscd, and /var/lib/nss_db</seg>
656 </seglistitem>
657 </segmentedlist>
658
659 <variablelist>
660 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
661 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
662 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
663
664 <varlistentry id="gencat">
665 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
666 <listitem>
667 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
668 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
669 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
670 </indexterm>
671 </listitem>
672 </varlistentry>
673
674 <varlistentry id="getconf">
675 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
676 <listitem>
677 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system
678 specific variables</para>
679 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
680 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
681 </indexterm>
682 </listitem>
683 </varlistentry>
684
685 <varlistentry id="getent">
686 <term><command>getent</command></term>
687 <listitem>
688 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
689 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
690 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
691 </indexterm>
692 </listitem>
693 </varlistentry>
694
695 <varlistentry id="iconv">
696 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
697 <listitem>
698 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
699 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
700 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
701 </indexterm>
702 </listitem>
703 </varlistentry>
704
705 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
706 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
707 <listitem>
708 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
709 files</para>
710 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
711 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
712 </indexterm>
713 </listitem>
714 </varlistentry>
715
716 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
717 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
718 <listitem>
719 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
720 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
721 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
722 </indexterm>
723 </listitem>
724 </varlistentry>
725
726 <varlistentry id="ldd">
727 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
728 <listitem>
729 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
730 by each given program or shared library</para>
731 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
732 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
733 </indexterm>
734 </listitem>
735 </varlistentry>
736
737 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
738 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
739 <listitem>
740 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files.
741 It does not exist on newer architectures like x86_64</para>
742 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
743 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
744 </indexterm>
745 </listitem>
746 </varlistentry>
747
748 <varlistentry id="locale">
749 <term><command>locale</command></term>
750 <listitem>
751 <para>Prints various information about the current locale</para>
752 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
753 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
754 </indexterm>
755 </listitem>
756 </varlistentry>
757
758 <varlistentry id="localedef">
759 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
760 <listitem>
761 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
762 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
763 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
764 </indexterm>
765 </listitem>
766 </varlistentry>
767
768 <varlistentry id="makedb">
769 <term><command>makedb</command></term>
770 <listitem>
771 <para>Creates a simple database from textual input</para>
772 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc makedb">
773 <primary sortas="b-makedb">makedb</primary>
774 </indexterm>
775 </listitem>
776 </varlistentry>
777
778 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
779 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
780 <listitem>
781 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary
782 in human-readable format</para>
783 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
784 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
785 </indexterm>
786 </listitem>
787 </varlistentry>
788
789 <varlistentry id="nscd">
790 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
791 <listitem>
792 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
793 service requests</para>
794 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
795 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
796 </indexterm>
797 </listitem>
798 </varlistentry>
799
800 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
801 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
802 <listitem>
803 <para>Dump information generated by PC profiling</para>
804 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
805 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
806 </indexterm>
807 </listitem>
808 </varlistentry>
809
810 <varlistentry id="pldd">
811 <term><command>pldd</command></term>
812 <listitem>
813 <para>Lists dynamic shared objects used by running processes</para>
814 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pldd">
815 <primary sortas="b-pldd">pldd</primary>
816 </indexterm>
817 </listitem>
818 </varlistentry>
819
820 <varlistentry id="sln">
821 <term><command>sln</command></term>
822 <listitem>
823 <para>A statically linked <command>ln</command> program</para>
824 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
825 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
826 </indexterm>
827 </listitem>
828 </varlistentry>
829
830 <varlistentry id="sotruss">
831 <term><command>sotruss</command></term>
832 <listitem>
833 <para>Traces shared library procedure calls of a specified command</para>
834 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sotruss">
835 <primary sortas="b-sotruss">sotruss</primary>
836 </indexterm>
837 </listitem>
838 </varlistentry>
839
840 <varlistentry id="sprof">
841 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
842 <listitem>
843 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
844 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
845 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
846 </indexterm>
847 </listitem>
848 </varlistentry>
849
850 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
851 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
852 <listitem>
853 <para>Asks the user about the location of the system and reports
854 the corresponding time zone description</para>
855 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
856 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
857 </indexterm>
858 </listitem>
859 </varlistentry>
860
861 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
862 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
863 <listitem>
864 <para>Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently
865 executed function</para>
866 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
867 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
868 </indexterm>
869 </listitem>
870 </varlistentry>
871
872 <varlistentry id="zdump">
873 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
874 <listitem>
875 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
876 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
877 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
878 </indexterm>
879 </listitem>
880 </varlistentry>
881
882 <varlistentry id="zic">
883 <term><command>zic</command></term>
884 <listitem>
885 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
886 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
887 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
888 </indexterm>
889 </listitem>
890 </varlistentry>
891
892 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
893 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld-*.so</filename></term>
894 <listitem>
895 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
896 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
897 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld-&glibc-version;.so</primary>
898 </indexterm>
899 </listitem>
900 </varlistentry>
901
902 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
903 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
904 <listitem>
905 <para>Used internally by Glibc as a gross hack to get broken programs
906 (e.g., some Motif applications) running. See comments in
907 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/locale/broken_cur_max.c</filename>
908 for more information</para>
909 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
910 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
911 </indexterm>
912 </listitem>
913 </varlistentry>
914
915 <varlistentry id="libanl">
916 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
917 <listitem>
918 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
919 asynchronous name lookup library, whose functions are now in
920 <filename class='libraryfile'>libc</filename></para>
921 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
922 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
923 </indexterm>
924 </listitem>
925 </varlistentry>
926
927 <varlistentry id="libc">
928 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
929 <listitem>
930 <para>The main C library</para>
931 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
932 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
933 </indexterm>
934 </listitem>
935 </varlistentry>
936
937 <varlistentry id="libc_malloc_debug">
938 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc_malloc_debug</filename></term>
939 <listitem>
940 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when preloaded</para>
941 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc_malloc_debug">
942 <primary sortas="c-libc_malloc_debug">libc_malloc_debug</primary>
943 </indexterm>
944 </listitem>
945 </varlistentry>
946
947 <varlistentry id="libdl">
948 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
949 <listitem>
950 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
951 dynamic linking interface library, whose functions are now in
952 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
953 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
954 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
955 </indexterm>
956 </listitem>
957 </varlistentry>
958
959 <varlistentry id="libg">
960 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
961 <listitem>
962 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was a runtime
963 library for <command>g++</command></para>
964 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
965 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
966 </indexterm>
967 </listitem>
968 </varlistentry>
969
970 <varlistentry id="libm">
971 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
972 <listitem>
973 <para>The mathematical library</para>
974 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
975 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
976 </indexterm>
977 </listitem>
978 </varlistentry>
979
980 <varlistentry id="libmvec">
981 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmvec</filename></term>
982 <listitem>
983 <para>The vector math library, linked in as needed
984 when <filename class='libraryfile'>libm</filename> is used</para>
985 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmvec">
986 <primary sortas="c-libmvec">libmvec</primary>
987 </indexterm>
988 </listitem>
989 </varlistentry>
990
991 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
992 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
993 <listitem>
994 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when linked to</para>
995 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
996 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
997 </indexterm>
998 </listitem>
999 </varlistentry>
1000
1001 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
1002 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
1003 <listitem>
1004 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> to help collect
1005 information about the memory usage of a program</para>
1006 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
1007 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
1008 </indexterm>
1009 </listitem>
1010 </varlistentry>
1011
1012 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
1013 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
1014 <listitem>
1015 <para>The network services library, now deprecated</para>
1016 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
1017 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
1018 </indexterm>
1019 </listitem>
1020 </varlistentry>
1021
1022 <varlistentry id="libnss">
1023 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss_*</filename></term>
1024 <listitem>
1025 <para>The Name Service Switch modules, containing functions for
1026 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
1027 protocols, etc. Loaded by
1028 <filename class='libraryfile'>libc</filename> according to the
1029 configuration in <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename></para>
1030 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
1031 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss_*</primary>
1032 </indexterm>
1033 </listitem>
1034 </varlistentry>
1035
1036 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
1037 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
1038 <listitem>
1039 <para>Can be preloaded to PC profile an executable</para>
1040 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
1041 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
1042 </indexterm>
1043 </listitem>
1044 </varlistentry>
1045
1046 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
1047 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
1048 <listitem>
1049 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
1050 functions providing most of the interfaces specified
1051 by the POSIX.1c Threads Extensions and the semaphore interfaces
1052 specified by the POSIX.1b Real-time Extensions, now the functions
1053 are in <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
1054 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
1055 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
1056 </indexterm>
1057 </listitem>
1058 </varlistentry>
1059
1060 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
1061 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
1062 <listitem>
1063 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
1064 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
1065 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
1066 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
1067 </indexterm>
1068 </listitem>
1069 </varlistentry>
1070
1071 <varlistentry id="librt">
1072 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
1073 <listitem>
1074 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified
1075 by the POSIX.1b Real-time Extensions</para>
1076 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
1077 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
1078 </indexterm>
1079 </listitem>
1080 </varlistentry>
1081
1082 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
1083 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
1084 <listitem>
1085 <para>Contains functions useful for building debuggers for
1086 multi-threaded programs</para>
1087 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
1088 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
1089 </indexterm>
1090 </listitem>
1091 </varlistentry>
1092
1093 <varlistentry id="libutil">
1094 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
1095 <listitem>
1096 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
1097 code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
1098 many different Unix utilities. These functions are now in
1099 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
1100 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
1101 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
1102 </indexterm>
1103 </listitem>
1104 </varlistentry>
1105
1106 </variablelist>
1107
1108 </sect2>
1109
1110</sect1>
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