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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>Now fix a regression causing the posix_memalign() function
54 to be very slow in some conditions:</para>
55
56<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-memalign-patch;</userinput></screen>
57
58 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc
59 in a dedicated build directory:</para>
60
61<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v build
62cd build</userinput></screen>
63
64 <para>Ensure that the <command>ldconfig</command> and <command>sln</command>
65 utilities will be installed into
66 <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>:</para>
67
68<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo "rootsbindir=/usr/sbin" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen>
69
70 <para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
71
72<screen arch="default"><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr \
73 --disable-werror \
74 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
75 --enable-stack-protector=strong \
76 --with-headers=/usr/include \
77 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
78<screen arch="ml_32,ml_x32,ml_all"><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr \
79 --disable-werror \
80 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
81 --enable-stack-protector=strong \
82 --with-headers=/usr/include \
83 --enable-multi-arch \
84 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
85
86 <variablelist>
87 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
88
89 <varlistentry>
90 <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>This option disables the -Werror option passed to
93 GCC. This is necessary for running the test suite.</para>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
96
97 <varlistentry>
98 <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>This option tells the build system that this Glibc may
101 be used with kernels as old as &min-kernel;. This means generating
102 workarounds in case a system call introduced in a later version
103 cannot be used.</para>
104 </listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106
107 <varlistentry>
108 <term><parameter>--enable-stack-protector=strong</parameter></term>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>This option increases system security by adding
111 extra code to check for buffer overflows, such as stack
112 smashing attacks.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115<!-- do we need this one? -->
116 <varlistentry>
117 <term><parameter>--with-headers=/usr/include</parameter></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>This option tells the build system where to find the
120 kernel API headers.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123
124 <varlistentry>
125 <term><parameter>libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</parameter></term>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>This variable sets the correct library for all
128 systems. We do not want lib64 to be used.</para>
129 </listitem>
130 </varlistentry>
131
132 </variablelist>
133
134 <para>Compile the package:</para>
135
136<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
137
138 <important>
139 <para>In this section, the test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
140 Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
141 </important>
142
143 <para>Generally a few tests do not pass. The test failures listed below
144 are usually safe to ignore.</para>
145
146<!-- Use remap="make" here to work around a jhalfs issue. -->
147<!--<screen><userinput remap="make">case $(uname -m) in
148 i?86) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux.so.2 /lib ;;
149 x86_64) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib ;;
150esac</userinput></screen>
151
152 <note><para>The symbolic link above is needed to run the tests at this
153 stage of building in the chroot environment. It will be overwritten
154 in the install phase below.</para></note>
155-->
156<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
157
158 <para>You may see some test failures. The Glibc test suite is
159 somewhat dependent on the host system. A few failures out of
160 over 5000 tests can generally be ignored. This is a list of the
161 most common issues seen for recent versions of LFS:</para>
162
163 <itemizedlist>
164
165 <listitem>
166 <para><emphasis>io/tst-lchmod</emphasis>
167 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
168 </listitem>
169
170<!-- Did not fail with glibc-2.38
171 <listitem>
172 <para><emphasis>misc/tst-ttyname</emphasis>
173 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
174 </listitem>
175-->
176
177 <!-- https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-August/141567.html -->
178 <listitem>
179 <para>The <emphasis>stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread</emphasis>
180 test is known to fail if the host kernel is relatively old.</para>
181 </listitem>
182
183 <listitem>
184 <para>Some tests, for example
185 <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis>,
186 are known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal
187 timeout.</para>
188 </listitem>
189
190 <listitem>
191 <para>Additionally, some tests may fail with a relatively old CPU
192 model or host kernel version.</para>
193 </listitem>
194 </itemizedlist>
195
196 <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
197 complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
198 Prevent this warning with:</para>
199
200<screen><userinput remap="install">touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
201
202 <!-- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21911 -->
203 <para>Fix the Makefile to skip an outdated sanity check
204 that fails with a modern Glibc configuration:</para>
205
206<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/test-installation/s@$(PERL)@echo not running@' -i ../Makefile</userinput></screen>
207
208 <para>Install the package:</para>
209
210<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
211
212 <para>Fix a hardcoded path to the executable loader in the
213 <command>ldd</command> script:</para>
214
215<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/RTLDLIST=/s@/usr@@g' -i /usr/bin/ldd</userinput></screen>
216
217 <para>Install the configuration file and runtime directory for
218 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
219
220<screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../nscd/nscd.conf /etc/nscd.conf
221mkdir -pv /var/cache/nscd</userinput></screen>
222
223 <para revision="systemd">Install the systemd support files for
224 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
225
226 <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="install">install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.tmpfiles /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf
227install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service</userinput></screen>
228
229 <para>Next, install the locales that can make the system respond in a
230 different language. None of these locales are required, but if some of them
231 are missing, the test suites of some packages will skip important
232 test cases.</para>
233
234 <para>Individual locales can be installed using the
235 <command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the second
236 <command>localedef</command> command below combines the
237 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/locales/cs_CZ</filename>
238 charset-independent locale definition with the
239 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz</filename>
240 charmap definition and appends the result to the
241 <filename>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive</filename> file.
242 The following instructions will install the minimum set of
243 locales necessary for the optimal coverage of tests:</para>
244
245<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-test">mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
246localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
247localedef -i cs_CZ -f UTF-8 cs_CZ.UTF-8
248localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
249localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
250localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8
251localedef -i el_GR -f ISO-8859-7 el_GR
252localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-1 en_GB
253localedef -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
254localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
255localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
256localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
257localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
258localedef -i es_ES -f ISO-8859-15 es_ES@euro
259localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
260localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
261localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
262localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
263localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8
264localedef -i is_IS -f ISO-8859-1 is_IS
265localedef -i is_IS -f UTF-8 is_IS.UTF-8
266localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
267localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-15 it_IT@euro
268localedef -i it_IT -f UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8
269localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP
270localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true
271localedef -i ja_JP -f UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8
272localedef -i nl_NL@euro -f ISO-8859-15 nl_NL@euro
273localedef -i ru_RU -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
274localedef -i ru_RU -f UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
275localedef -i se_NO -f UTF-8 se_NO.UTF-8
276localedef -i ta_IN -f UTF-8 ta_IN.UTF-8
277localedef -i tr_TR -f UTF-8 tr_TR.UTF-8
278localedef -i zh_CN -f GB18030 zh_CN.GB18030
279localedef -i zh_HK -f BIG5-HKSCS zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS
280localedef -i zh_TW -f UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8</userinput></screen>
281
282 <para>In addition, install the locale for your own country, language and
283 character set.</para>
284
285 <para>Alternatively, install all the locales listed in the
286 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
287 (it includes every locale listed above and many more) at once with the
288 following time-consuming command:</para>
289
290<screen><userinput remap="locale-full">make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
291
292 <para>Then use the <command>localedef</command> command to create and
293 install locales not listed in the
294 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
295 when you need them. For instance, the following two locales are
296 needed for some tests later in this chapter:</para>
297
298<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-full">localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
299localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true</userinput></screen>
300
301 <note><para>Glibc now uses libidn2 when resolving internationalized
302 domain names. This is a run time dependency. If this capability
303 is needed, the instructions for installing libidn2 are in the
304 <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/libidn2.html">BLFS libidn2 page</ulink>.
305 </para></note>
306
307 </sect2>
308
309 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
310 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
311
312 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
313 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
314 </indexterm>
315
316 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
317 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
318 </indexterm>
319
320 <sect3>
321 <title>Adding nsswitch.conf</title>
322
323 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
324 because the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment.
325 </para>
326
327 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
328 following:</para>
329
330<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
331<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
332
333passwd: files
334group: files
335shadow: files
336
337hosts: files dns
338networks: files
339
340protocols: files
341services: files
342ethers: files
343rpc: files
344
345# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
346EOF</userinput></screen>
347
348 </sect3>
349
350 <sect3>
351 <title>Adding Time Zone Data</title>
352
353 <para>Install and set up the time zone data with the following:</para>
354<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../../tzdata&tzdata-version;.tar.gz
355
356ZONEINFO=/usr/share/zoneinfo
357mkdir -pv $ZONEINFO/{posix,right}
358
359for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica \
360 asia australasia backward; do
361 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO ${tz}
362 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO/posix ${tz}
363 zic -L leapseconds -d $ZONEINFO/right ${tz}
364done
365
366cp -v zone.tab zone1970.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO
367zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York
368unset ZONEINFO</userinput></screen>
369
370 <variablelist>
371 <title>The meaning of the zic commands:</title>
372
373 <varlistentry>
374 <term><parameter>zic -L /dev/null ...</parameter></term>
375 <listitem>
376 <para>This creates posix time zones without any leap seconds. It is
377 conventional to put these in both
378 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename> and
379 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo/posix</filename>. It is
380 necessary to put the POSIX time zones in
381 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename>, otherwise various
382 test suites will report errors. On an embedded system, where space is
383 tight and you do not intend to ever update the time zones, you could save
384 1.9 MB by not using the <filename class="directory">posix</filename>
385 directory, but some applications or test suites might produce some
386 failures.</para>
387 </listitem>
388 </varlistentry>
389 <varlistentry>
390 <term><parameter>zic -L leapseconds ...</parameter></term>
391 <listitem>
392 <para>This creates right time zones, including leap seconds. On an
393 embedded system, where space is tight and you do not intend to
394 ever update the time zones, or care about the correct time, you could
395 save 1.9MB by omitting the <filename class="directory">right</filename>
396 directory.</para>
397 </listitem>
398 </varlistentry>
399 <varlistentry>
400 <term><parameter>zic ... -p ...</parameter></term>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>This creates the <filename>posixrules</filename> file. We use
403 New York because POSIX requires the daylight savings time rules
404 to be in accordance with US rules.</para>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
407 </variablelist>
408
409
410 <para>One way to determine the local time zone is to run the following
411 script:</para>
412
413<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
414
415 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
416 output the name of the time zone (e.g.,
417 <emphasis>America/Edmonton</emphasis>). There are also some other possible
418 time zones listed in <filename
419 class='directory'>/usr/share/zoneinfo</filename> such as
420 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis> or <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> that
421 are not identified by the script but can be used.</para>
422
423 <para>Then create the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by
424 running:</para>
425
426<screen><userinput>ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
427
428 <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the
429 time zone selected (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
430
431 </sect3>
432
433 <sect3 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
434 <title>Configuring the Dynamic Loader</title>
435
436 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
437 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
438 </indexterm>
439
440 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
441 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
442 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries
443 that are needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are
444 libraries in directories other than
445 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be added
446 to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order for the
447 dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known
448 to contain additional libraries are <filename
449 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
450 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
451 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
452
453 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
454 following:</para>
455
456<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
457<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
458/usr/local/lib
459/opt/lib
460</literal>
461EOF</userinput></screen>
462
463 <para>If desired, the dynamic loader can also search a directory and
464 include the contents of files found there. Generally the files in
465 this include directory are one line specifying the desired library path.
466 To add this capability run the following commands:</para>
467
468<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
469<literal># Add an include directory
470include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
471</literal>
472EOF
473mkdir -pv /etc/ld.so.conf.d</userinput></screen>
474
475 </sect3>
476 </sect2>
477
478 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
479 <!-- Multilib - 32bit -->
480 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
481 <sect2 arch="ml_32,ml_all">
482 <title>Building Glibc - 32bit</title>
483
484 <para>Now recompile for m32. The extracted source can be
485 reused but needs to be cleaned before installing the m32
486 version of Glibc.</para>
487
488 <para>Clear the build directory and remove artefacts from
489 previous build:</para>
490
491<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf ./*
492find .. -name "*.a" -delete</userinput></screen>
493
494 <para>Configure Glibc for m32 with the following commands:</para>
495
496<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" \
497../configure \
498 --prefix=/usr \
499 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
500 --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
501 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
502 --with-headers=/usr/include \
503 --enable-multi-arch \
504 --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
505 --libexecdir=/usr/lib32 \
506 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib32</userinput></screen>
507
508 <para>Compile the package:</para>
509
510<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
511
512 <para>Install the package:</para>
513
514<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
515cp -a DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32/
516install -vm644 DESTDIR/usr/include/gnu/{lib-names,stubs}-32.h \
517 /usr/include/gnu/</userinput></screen>
518<!-- no longer required as they are created in chap5
519ln -svf ../lib32/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
520-->
521
522 <para>Add the library name to the dynamic loader config:</para>
523
524<screen role="install"><userinput>echo "/usr/lib32" &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
525
526 <caution>
527 <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
528 functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
529 expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
530
531<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
532gcc -m32 dummy.c
533readelf -l a.out | grep '/ld-linux'</userinput></screen>
534
535 <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
536 and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
537
538<screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
539
540 <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
541 then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
542 where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
543 continuing on.</para>
544
545 <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
546
547<screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
548
549 </caution>
550
551 </sect2><!-- m32 -->
552
553 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
554 <!-- Multilib - x32bit -->
555 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
556
557 <sect2 arch="ml_x32,ml_all">
558 <title>Building Glibc - x32bit</title>
559
560 <para>Now recompile for mx32. The extracted source can be
561 reused but needs to be cleaned before installing the mx32
562 version of Glibc.</para>
563
564 <para>Clear the build directory and remove artefacts from
565 previous build:</para>
566
567<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf ./*
568find .. -name "*.a" -delete</userinput></screen>
569
570 <para>Configure Glibc for mx32 with the following commands:</para>
571
572<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -mx32" CXX="g++ -mx32" \
573../configure \
574 --prefix=/usr \
575 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnux32 \
576 --build=$(../scripts/config.guess) \
577 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
578 --with-headers=/usr/include \
579 --enable-multi-arch \
580 --libdir=/usr/libx32 \
581 --libexecdir=/usr/libx32 \
582 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/libx32</userinput></screen>
583
584 <para>Compile the package:</para>
585
586<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
587
588 <para>Install the package:</para>
589
590<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
591cp -a DESTDIR/usr/libx32/* /usr/libx32/
592install -vm644 DESTDIR/usr/include/gnu/{lib-names,stubs}-x32.h \
593 /usr/include/gnu/</userinput></screen>
594<!-- no longer required as they are created in chap5
595ln -svf ../libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2 /lib/ld-linux-x32.so.2
596-->
597 <para>Add the library name to the dynamic loader config:</para>
598
599<screen role="install"><userinput>echo "/usr/libx32" &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
600
601 <caution>
602 <para>At this point, it is imperative to stop and ensure that the basic
603 functions (compiling and linking) of the new toolchain are working as
604 expected. To perform a sanity check, run the following commands:</para>
605
606<screen><userinput>echo 'int main(){}' &gt; dummy.c
607gcc -mx32 dummy.c
608readelf -l a.out | grep '/ld-linux-x32'</userinput></screen>
609
610 <para>If everything is working correctly, there should be no errors,
611 and the output of the last command will be of the form:</para>
612
613<screen><computeroutput>[Requesting program interpreter: /libx32/ld-linux-x32.so.2]</computeroutput></screen>
614
615 <para>If the output is not shown as above or there was no output at all,
616 then something is wrong. Investigate and retrace the steps to find out
617 where the problem is and correct it. This issue must be resolved before
618 continuing on.</para>
619
620 <para>Once all is well, clean up the test files:</para>
621
622<screen><userinput>rm -v dummy.c a.out</userinput></screen>
623
624 </caution>
625
626 </sect2><!-- mx32 -->
627
628 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
629 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
630
631 <segmentedlist>
632 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
633 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
634 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
635
636 <seglistitem>
637 <seg>gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
638 ldd, lddlibc4,
639 ld.so (symlink to ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 or ld-linux.so.2),
640 locale, localedef, makedb, mtrace, nscd,
641 pcprofiledump, pldd, sln, sotruss, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
642 zdump, and zic</seg>
643 <seg>ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, ld-linux.so.2,
644 libBrokenLocale.{a,so}, libanl.{a,so},
645 libc.{a,so}, libc_nonshared.a, libc_malloc_debug.so,
646 libdl.{a,so.2}, libg.a, libm.{a,so},
647 libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libmvec.{a,so}, libnsl.so.1,
648 libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
649 libpcprofile.so, libpthread.{a,so.0},
650 libresolv.{a,so}, librt.{a,so.1},
651 libthread_db.so, and libutil.{a,so.1}</seg>
652 <seg>/usr/include/arpa, /usr/include/bits, /usr/include/gnu,
653 /usr/include/net, /usr/include/netash, /usr/include/netatalk,
654 /usr/include/netax25, /usr/include/neteconet, /usr/include/netinet,
655 /usr/include/netipx, /usr/include/netiucv, /usr/include/netpacket,
656 /usr/include/netrom, /usr/include/netrose, /usr/include/nfs,
657 /usr/include/protocols, /usr/include/rpc,
658 /usr/include/sys, /usr/lib/audit, /usr/lib/gconv, /usr/lib/locale,
659 /usr/libexec/getconf, /usr/share/i18n, /usr/share/zoneinfo,
660 /var/cache/nscd, and /var/lib/nss_db</seg>
661 </seglistitem>
662 </segmentedlist>
663
664 <variablelist>
665 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
666 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
667 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
668
669 <varlistentry id="gencat">
670 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
673 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
674 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
675 </indexterm>
676 </listitem>
677 </varlistentry>
678
679 <varlistentry id="getconf">
680 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
681 <listitem>
682 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system
683 specific variables</para>
684 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
685 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
686 </indexterm>
687 </listitem>
688 </varlistentry>
689
690 <varlistentry id="getent">
691 <term><command>getent</command></term>
692 <listitem>
693 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
694 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
695 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
696 </indexterm>
697 </listitem>
698 </varlistentry>
699
700 <varlistentry id="iconv">
701 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
702 <listitem>
703 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
704 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
705 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
706 </indexterm>
707 </listitem>
708 </varlistentry>
709
710 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
711 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
712 <listitem>
713 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
714 files</para>
715 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
716 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
717 </indexterm>
718 </listitem>
719 </varlistentry>
720
721 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
722 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
723 <listitem>
724 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
725 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
726 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
727 </indexterm>
728 </listitem>
729 </varlistentry>
730
731 <varlistentry id="ldd">
732 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
733 <listitem>
734 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
735 by each given program or shared library</para>
736 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
737 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
738 </indexterm>
739 </listitem>
740 </varlistentry>
741
742 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
743 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
744 <listitem>
745 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files.
746 It does not exist on newer architectures like x86_64</para>
747 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
748 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
749 </indexterm>
750 </listitem>
751 </varlistentry>
752
753 <varlistentry id="locale">
754 <term><command>locale</command></term>
755 <listitem>
756 <para>Prints various information about the current locale</para>
757 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
758 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
759 </indexterm>
760 </listitem>
761 </varlistentry>
762
763 <varlistentry id="localedef">
764 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
765 <listitem>
766 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
767 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
768 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
769 </indexterm>
770 </listitem>
771 </varlistentry>
772
773 <varlistentry id="makedb">
774 <term><command>makedb</command></term>
775 <listitem>
776 <para>Creates a simple database from textual input</para>
777 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc makedb">
778 <primary sortas="b-makedb">makedb</primary>
779 </indexterm>
780 </listitem>
781 </varlistentry>
782
783 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
784 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
785 <listitem>
786 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary
787 in human-readable format</para>
788 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
789 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
790 </indexterm>
791 </listitem>
792 </varlistentry>
793
794 <varlistentry id="nscd">
795 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
796 <listitem>
797 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
798 service requests</para>
799 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
800 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
801 </indexterm>
802 </listitem>
803 </varlistentry>
804
805 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
806 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
807 <listitem>
808 <para>Dump information generated by PC profiling</para>
809 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
810 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
811 </indexterm>
812 </listitem>
813 </varlistentry>
814
815 <varlistentry id="pldd">
816 <term><command>pldd</command></term>
817 <listitem>
818 <para>Lists dynamic shared objects used by running processes</para>
819 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pldd">
820 <primary sortas="b-pldd">pldd</primary>
821 </indexterm>
822 </listitem>
823 </varlistentry>
824
825 <varlistentry id="sln">
826 <term><command>sln</command></term>
827 <listitem>
828 <para>A statically linked <command>ln</command> program</para>
829 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
830 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
831 </indexterm>
832 </listitem>
833 </varlistentry>
834
835 <varlistentry id="sotruss">
836 <term><command>sotruss</command></term>
837 <listitem>
838 <para>Traces shared library procedure calls of a specified command</para>
839 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sotruss">
840 <primary sortas="b-sotruss">sotruss</primary>
841 </indexterm>
842 </listitem>
843 </varlistentry>
844
845 <varlistentry id="sprof">
846 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
847 <listitem>
848 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
849 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
850 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
851 </indexterm>
852 </listitem>
853 </varlistentry>
854
855 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
856 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
857 <listitem>
858 <para>Asks the user about the location of the system and reports
859 the corresponding time zone description</para>
860 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
861 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
862 </indexterm>
863 </listitem>
864 </varlistentry>
865
866 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
867 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
868 <listitem>
869 <para>Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently
870 executed function</para>
871 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
872 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
873 </indexterm>
874 </listitem>
875 </varlistentry>
876
877 <varlistentry id="zdump">
878 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
879 <listitem>
880 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
881 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
882 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
883 </indexterm>
884 </listitem>
885 </varlistentry>
886
887 <varlistentry id="zic">
888 <term><command>zic</command></term>
889 <listitem>
890 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
891 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
892 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
893 </indexterm>
894 </listitem>
895 </varlistentry>
896
897 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
898 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld-*.so</filename></term>
899 <listitem>
900 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
901 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
902 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld-&glibc-version;.so</primary>
903 </indexterm>
904 </listitem>
905 </varlistentry>
906
907 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
908 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
909 <listitem>
910 <para>Used internally by Glibc as a gross hack to get broken programs
911 (e.g., some Motif applications) running. See comments in
912 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/locale/broken_cur_max.c</filename>
913 for more information</para>
914 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
915 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
916 </indexterm>
917 </listitem>
918 </varlistentry>
919
920 <varlistentry id="libanl">
921 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
922 <listitem>
923 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
924 asynchronous name lookup library, whose functions are now in
925 <filename class='libraryfile'>libc</filename></para>
926 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
927 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
928 </indexterm>
929 </listitem>
930 </varlistentry>
931
932 <varlistentry id="libc">
933 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
934 <listitem>
935 <para>The main C library</para>
936 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
937 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
938 </indexterm>
939 </listitem>
940 </varlistentry>
941
942 <varlistentry id="libc_malloc_debug">
943 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc_malloc_debug</filename></term>
944 <listitem>
945 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when preloaded</para>
946 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc_malloc_debug">
947 <primary sortas="c-libc_malloc_debug">libc_malloc_debug</primary>
948 </indexterm>
949 </listitem>
950 </varlistentry>
951
952 <varlistentry id="libdl">
953 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
954 <listitem>
955 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
956 dynamic linking interface library, whose functions are now in
957 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
958 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
959 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
960 </indexterm>
961 </listitem>
962 </varlistentry>
963
964 <varlistentry id="libg">
965 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
966 <listitem>
967 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was a runtime
968 library for <command>g++</command></para>
969 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
970 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
971 </indexterm>
972 </listitem>
973 </varlistentry>
974
975 <varlistentry id="libm">
976 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
977 <listitem>
978 <para>The mathematical library</para>
979 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
980 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
981 </indexterm>
982 </listitem>
983 </varlistentry>
984
985 <varlistentry id="libmvec">
986 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmvec</filename></term>
987 <listitem>
988 <para>The vector math library, linked in as needed
989 when <filename class='libraryfile'>libm</filename> is used</para>
990 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmvec">
991 <primary sortas="c-libmvec">libmvec</primary>
992 </indexterm>
993 </listitem>
994 </varlistentry>
995
996 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
997 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
998 <listitem>
999 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when linked to</para>
1000 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
1001 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
1002 </indexterm>
1003 </listitem>
1004 </varlistentry>
1005
1006 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
1007 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
1008 <listitem>
1009 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> to help collect
1010 information about the memory usage of a program</para>
1011 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
1012 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
1013 </indexterm>
1014 </listitem>
1015 </varlistentry>
1016
1017 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
1018 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
1019 <listitem>
1020 <para>The network services library, now deprecated</para>
1021 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
1022 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
1023 </indexterm>
1024 </listitem>
1025 </varlistentry>
1026
1027 <varlistentry id="libnss">
1028 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss_*</filename></term>
1029 <listitem>
1030 <para>The Name Service Switch modules, containing functions for
1031 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
1032 protocols, etc. Loaded by
1033 <filename class='libraryfile'>libc</filename> according to the
1034 configuration in <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename></para>
1035 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
1036 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss_*</primary>
1037 </indexterm>
1038 </listitem>
1039 </varlistentry>
1040
1041 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
1042 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
1043 <listitem>
1044 <para>Can be preloaded to PC profile an executable</para>
1045 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
1046 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
1047 </indexterm>
1048 </listitem>
1049 </varlistentry>
1050
1051 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
1052 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
1053 <listitem>
1054 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
1055 functions providing most of the interfaces specified
1056 by the POSIX.1c Threads Extensions and the semaphore interfaces
1057 specified by the POSIX.1b Real-time Extensions, now the functions
1058 are in <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
1059 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
1060 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
1061 </indexterm>
1062 </listitem>
1063 </varlistentry>
1064
1065 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
1066 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
1067 <listitem>
1068 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
1069 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
1070 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
1071 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
1072 </indexterm>
1073 </listitem>
1074 </varlistentry>
1075
1076 <varlistentry id="librt">
1077 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
1078 <listitem>
1079 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified
1080 by the POSIX.1b Real-time Extensions</para>
1081 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
1082 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
1083 </indexterm>
1084 </listitem>
1085 </varlistentry>
1086
1087 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
1088 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
1089 <listitem>
1090 <para>Contains functions useful for building debuggers for
1091 multi-threaded programs</para>
1092 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
1093 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
1094 </indexterm>
1095 </listitem>
1096 </varlistentry>
1097
1098 <varlistentry id="libutil">
1099 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
1100 <listitem>
1101 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
1102 code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
1103 many different Unix utilities. These functions are now in
1104 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
1105 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
1106 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
1107 </indexterm>
1108 </listitem>
1109 </varlistentry>
1110
1111 </variablelist>
1112
1113 </sect2>
1114
1115</sect1>
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