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glibc: Disable obsolete libcrypt implementation

I've not bothered to write an explanation for --disable-crypt because it
will likely be the default of Glibc-2.38, then we may drop it from the
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4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-glibc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
10
11 <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 <!-- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30068
54 Upstream fix also added a test case and renamed "prec" to
55 "prec_inc". We'll test this with MPFR test suite so we don't
56 need the test here, and the renaming does not affect program
57 behavior. -->
58 <para>Fix a security issue identified upstream:</para>
59
60<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/width -=/s/workend - string/number_length/' \
61 -i stdio-common/vfprintf-process-arg.c</userinput></screen>
62
63 <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc
64 in a dedicated build directory:</para>
65
66<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v build
67cd build</userinput></screen>
68
69 <para>Ensure that the <command>ldconfig</command> and <command>sln</command>
70 utilities will be installed into
71 <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename>:</para>
72
73<screen><userinput remap="pre">echo "rootsbindir=/usr/sbin" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen>
74
75 <para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
76
77<screen><userinput remap="configure">../configure --prefix=/usr \
78 --disable-werror \
79 --enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
80 --enable-stack-protector=strong \
81 --with-headers=/usr/include \
82 --disable-crypt \
83 libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
84
85 <variablelist>
86 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
87
88 <varlistentry>
89 <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>This option disables the -Werror option passed to
92 GCC. This is necessary for running the test suite.</para>
93 </listitem>
94 </varlistentry>
95
96 <varlistentry>
97 <term><parameter>--enable-kernel=&min-kernel;</parameter></term>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>This option tells the build system that this Glibc may
100 be used with kernels as old as &min-kernel;. This means generating
101 workarounds in case a system call introduced in a later version
102 cannot be used.</para>
103 </listitem>
104 </varlistentry>
105
106 <varlistentry>
107 <term><parameter>--enable-stack-protector=strong</parameter></term>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>This option increases system security by adding
110 extra code to check for buffer overflows, such as stack
111 smashing attacks.</para>
112 </listitem>
113 </varlistentry>
114<!-- do we need this one? -->
115 <varlistentry>
116 <term><parameter>--with-headers=/usr/include</parameter></term>
117 <listitem>
118 <para>This option tells the build system where to find the
119 kernel API headers.</para>
120 </listitem>
121 </varlistentry>
122
123 <varlistentry>
124 <term><parameter>libc_cv_slibdir=/usr/lib</parameter></term>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>This variable sets the correct library for all
127 systems. We do not want lib64 to be used.</para>
128 </listitem>
129 </varlistentry>
130
131 </variablelist>
132
133 <para>Compile the package:</para>
134
135<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
136
137 <important>
138 <para>In this section, the test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
139 Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
140 </important>
141
142 <para>Generally a few tests do not pass. The test failures listed below
143 are usually safe to ignore.</para>
144
145<!-- Use remap="make" here to work around a jhalfs issue. -->
146<!--<screen><userinput remap="make">case $(uname -m) in
147 i?86) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux.so.2 /lib ;;
148 x86_64) ln -sfnv $PWD/elf/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib ;;
149esac</userinput></screen>
150
151 <note><para>The symbolic link above is needed to run the tests at this
152 stage of building in the chroot environment. It will be overwritten
153 in the install phase below.</para></note>
154-->
155<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
156
157 <para>You may see some test failures. The Glibc test suite is
158 somewhat dependent on the host system. A few failures out of
159 over 5000 tests can generally be ignored. This is a list of the
160 most common issues seen for recent versions of LFS:</para>
161
162 <itemizedlist>
163
164 <listitem>
165 <para><emphasis>io/tst-lchmod</emphasis>
166 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
167 </listitem>
168
169 <listitem>
170 <para><emphasis>misc/tst-ttyname</emphasis>
171 is known to fail in the LFS chroot environment.</para>
172 </listitem>
173
174 <!-- https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-August/141567.html -->
175 <listitem>
176 <para>The <emphasis>stdlib/tst-arc4random-thread</emphasis>
177 test is known to fail if the host kernel is relatively old.</para>
178 </listitem>
179
180 <listitem>
181 <para>Some tests, for example
182 <emphasis>nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-multi</emphasis>,
183 are known to fail on relatively slow systems due to an internal
184 timeout.</para>
185 </listitem>
186
187 <listitem>
188 <para>Additionally, some tests may fail with a relatively old CPU
189 model or host kernel version.</para>
190 </listitem>
191 </itemizedlist>
192
193 <para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
194 complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
195 Prevent this warning with:</para>
196
197<screen><userinput remap="install">touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
198
199 <!-- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21911 -->
200 <para>Fix the Makefile to skip an outdated sanity check
201 that fails with a modern Glibc configuration:</para>
202
203<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/test-installation/s@$(PERL)@echo not running@' -i ../Makefile</userinput></screen>
204
205 <para>Install the package:</para>
206
207<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
208
209 <para>Fix a hardcoded path to the executable loader in the
210 <command>ldd</command> script:</para>
211
212<screen><userinput remap="install">sed '/RTLDLIST=/s@/usr@@g' -i /usr/bin/ldd</userinput></screen>
213
214 <para>Install the configuration file and runtime directory for
215 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
216
217<screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../nscd/nscd.conf /etc/nscd.conf
218mkdir -pv /var/cache/nscd</userinput></screen>
219
220 <para revision="systemd">Install the systemd support files for
221 <command>nscd</command>:</para>
222
223 <screen revision="systemd"><userinput remap="install">install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.tmpfiles /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf
224install -v -Dm644 ../nscd/nscd.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service</userinput></screen>
225
226 <para>Next, install the locales that can make the system respond in a
227 different language. None of these locales are required, but if some of them
228 are missing, the test suites of some packages will skip important
229 test cases.</para>
230
231 <para>Individual locales can be installed using the
232 <command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the second
233 <command>localedef</command> command below combines the
234 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/locales/cs_CZ</filename>
235 charset-independent locale definition with the
236 <filename>/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz</filename>
237 charmap definition and appends the result to the
238 <filename>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive</filename> file.
239 The following instructions will install the minimum set of
240 locales necessary for the optimal coverage of tests:</para>
241
242<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-test">mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
243localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
244localedef -i cs_CZ -f UTF-8 cs_CZ.UTF-8
245localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
246localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
247localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8
248localedef -i el_GR -f ISO-8859-7 el_GR
249localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-1 en_GB
250localedef -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
251localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
252localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
253localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
254localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
255localedef -i es_ES -f ISO-8859-15 es_ES@euro
256localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
257localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
258localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
259localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
260localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8
261localedef -i is_IS -f ISO-8859-1 is_IS
262localedef -i is_IS -f UTF-8 is_IS.UTF-8
263localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
264localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-15 it_IT@euro
265localedef -i it_IT -f UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8
266localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP
267localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true
268localedef -i ja_JP -f UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8
269localedef -i nl_NL@euro -f ISO-8859-15 nl_NL@euro
270localedef -i ru_RU -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
271localedef -i ru_RU -f UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
272localedef -i se_NO -f UTF-8 se_NO.UTF-8
273localedef -i ta_IN -f UTF-8 ta_IN.UTF-8
274localedef -i tr_TR -f UTF-8 tr_TR.UTF-8
275localedef -i zh_CN -f GB18030 zh_CN.GB18030
276localedef -i zh_HK -f BIG5-HKSCS zh_HK.BIG5-HKSCS
277localedef -i zh_TW -f UTF-8 zh_TW.UTF-8</userinput></screen>
278
279 <para>In addition, install the locale for your own country, language and
280 character set.</para>
281
282 <para>Alternatively, install all the locales listed in the
283 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
284 (it includes every locale listed above and many more) at once with the
285 following time-consuming command:</para>
286
287<screen><userinput remap="locale-full">make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
288
289 <para>Then use the <command>localedef</command> command to create and
290 install locales not listed in the
291 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
292 when you need them. For instance, the following two locales are
293 needed for some tests later in this chapter:</para>
294
295<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-full">localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8 2> /dev/null || true
296localedef -i ja_JP -f SHIFT_JIS ja_JP.SJIS 2> /dev/null || true</userinput></screen>
297
298 <note><para>Glibc now uses libidn2 when resolving internationalized
299 domain names. This is a run time dependency. If this capability
300 is needed, the instructions for installing libidn2 are in the
301 <ulink url="&blfs-book;general/libidn2.html">BLFS libidn2 page</ulink>.
302 </para></note>
303
304 </sect2>
305
306 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
307 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
308
309 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
310 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
311 </indexterm>
312
313 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
314 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316
317 <sect3>
318 <title>Adding nsswitch.conf</title>
319
320 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
321 because the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment.
322 </para>
323
324 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
325 following:</para>
326
327<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
328<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
329
330passwd: files
331group: files
332shadow: files
333
334hosts: files dns
335networks: files
336
337protocols: files
338services: files
339ethers: files
340rpc: files
341
342# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
343EOF</userinput></screen>
344
345 </sect3>
346
347 <sect3>
348 <title>Adding Time Zone Data</title>
349
350 <para>Install and set up the time zone data with the following:</para>
351<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../../tzdata&tzdata-version;.tar.gz
352
353ZONEINFO=/usr/share/zoneinfo
354mkdir -pv $ZONEINFO/{posix,right}
355
356for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica \
357 asia australasia backward; do
358 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO ${tz}
359 zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO/posix ${tz}
360 zic -L leapseconds -d $ZONEINFO/right ${tz}
361done
362
363cp -v zone.tab zone1970.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO
364zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York
365unset ZONEINFO</userinput></screen>
366
367 <variablelist>
368 <title>The meaning of the zic commands:</title>
369
370 <varlistentry>
371 <term><parameter>zic -L /dev/null ...</parameter></term>
372 <listitem>
373 <para>This creates posix time zones without any leap seconds. It is
374 conventional to put these in both
375 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename> and
376 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo/posix</filename>. It is
377 necessary to put the POSIX time zones in
378 <filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename>, otherwise various
379 test suites will report errors. On an embedded system, where space is
380 tight and you do not intend to ever update the time zones, you could save
381 1.9 MB by not using the <filename class="directory">posix</filename>
382 directory, but some applications or test suites might produce some
383 failures.</para>
384 </listitem>
385 </varlistentry>
386 <varlistentry>
387 <term><parameter>zic -L leapseconds ...</parameter></term>
388 <listitem>
389 <para>This creates right time zones, including leap seconds. On an
390 embedded system, where space is tight and you do not intend to
391 ever update the time zones, or care about the correct time, you could
392 save 1.9MB by omitting the <filename class="directory">right</filename>
393 directory.</para>
394 </listitem>
395 </varlistentry>
396 <varlistentry>
397 <term><parameter>zic ... -p ...</parameter></term>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>This creates the <filename>posixrules</filename> file. We use
400 New York because POSIX requires the daylight savings time rules
401 to be in accordance with US rules.</para>
402 </listitem>
403 </varlistentry>
404 </variablelist>
405
406
407 <para>One way to determine the local time zone is to run the following
408 script:</para>
409
410<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
411
412 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
413 output the name of the time zone (e.g.,
414 <emphasis>America/Edmonton</emphasis>). There are also some other possible
415 time zones listed in <filename
416 class='directory'>/usr/share/zoneinfo</filename> such as
417 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis> or <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> that
418 are not identified by the script but can be used.</para>
419
420 <para>Then create the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by
421 running:</para>
422
423<screen><userinput>ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
424
425 <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the
426 time zone selected (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
427
428 </sect3>
429
430 <sect3 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
431 <title>Configuring the Dynamic Loader</title>
432
433 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
434 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
435 </indexterm>
436
437 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
438 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
439 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries
440 that are needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are
441 libraries in directories other than
442 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be added
443 to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order for the
444 dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known
445 to contain additional libraries are <filename
446 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
447 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
448 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
449
450 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
451 following:</para>
452
453<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
454<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
455/usr/local/lib
456/opt/lib
457</literal>
458EOF</userinput></screen>
459
460 <para>If desired, the dynamic loader can also search a directory and
461 include the contents of files found there. Generally the files in
462 this include directory are one line specifying the desired library path.
463 To add this capability run the following commands:</para>
464
465<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
466<literal># Add an include directory
467include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
468</literal>
469EOF
470mkdir -pv /etc/ld.so.conf.d</userinput></screen>
471
472 </sect3>
473 </sect2>
474
475 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
476 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
477
478 <segmentedlist>
479 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
480 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
481 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
482
483 <seglistitem>
484 <seg>gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
485 ldd, lddlibc4,
486 ld.so (symlink to ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 or ld-linux.so.2),
487 locale, localedef, makedb, mtrace, nscd,
488 pcprofiledump, pldd, sln, sotruss, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
489 zdump, and zic</seg>
490 <seg>ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, ld-linux.so.2,
491 libBrokenLocale.{a,so}, libanl.{a,so},
492 libc.{a,so}, libc_nonshared.a, libc_malloc_debug.so,
493 libdl.{a,so.2}, libg.a, libm.{a,so},
494 libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libmvec.{a,so}, libnsl.so.1,
495 libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
496 libpcprofile.so, libpthread.{a,so.0},
497 libresolv.{a,so}, librt.{a,so.1},
498 libthread_db.so, and libutil.{a,so.1}</seg>
499 <seg>/usr/include/arpa, /usr/include/bits, /usr/include/gnu,
500 /usr/include/net, /usr/include/netash, /usr/include/netatalk,
501 /usr/include/netax25, /usr/include/neteconet, /usr/include/netinet,
502 /usr/include/netipx, /usr/include/netiucv, /usr/include/netpacket,
503 /usr/include/netrom, /usr/include/netrose, /usr/include/nfs,
504 /usr/include/protocols, /usr/include/rpc,
505 /usr/include/sys, /usr/lib/audit, /usr/lib/gconv, /usr/lib/locale,
506 /usr/libexec/getconf, /usr/share/i18n, /usr/share/zoneinfo,
507 /var/cache/nscd, and /var/lib/nss_db</seg>
508 </seglistitem>
509 </segmentedlist>
510
511 <variablelist>
512 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
513 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
514 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
515
516 <varlistentry id="gencat">
517 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
518 <listitem>
519 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
520 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
521 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
522 </indexterm>
523 </listitem>
524 </varlistentry>
525
526 <varlistentry id="getconf">
527 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
528 <listitem>
529 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system
530 specific variables</para>
531 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
532 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
533 </indexterm>
534 </listitem>
535 </varlistentry>
536
537 <varlistentry id="getent">
538 <term><command>getent</command></term>
539 <listitem>
540 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
541 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
542 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
543 </indexterm>
544 </listitem>
545 </varlistentry>
546
547 <varlistentry id="iconv">
548 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
549 <listitem>
550 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
551 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
552 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
553 </indexterm>
554 </listitem>
555 </varlistentry>
556
557 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
558 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
559 <listitem>
560 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
561 files</para>
562 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
563 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
564 </indexterm>
565 </listitem>
566 </varlistentry>
567
568 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
569 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
570 <listitem>
571 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
572 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
573 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
574 </indexterm>
575 </listitem>
576 </varlistentry>
577
578 <varlistentry id="ldd">
579 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
582 by each given program or shared library</para>
583 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
584 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
585 </indexterm>
586 </listitem>
587 </varlistentry>
588
589 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
590 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
591 <listitem>
592 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files.
593 It does not exist on newer architectures like x86_64</para>
594 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
595 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
596 </indexterm>
597 </listitem>
598 </varlistentry>
599
600 <varlistentry id="locale">
601 <term><command>locale</command></term>
602 <listitem>
603 <para>Prints various information about the current locale</para>
604 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
605 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
606 </indexterm>
607 </listitem>
608 </varlistentry>
609
610 <varlistentry id="localedef">
611 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
612 <listitem>
613 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
614 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
615 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
616 </indexterm>
617 </listitem>
618 </varlistentry>
619
620 <varlistentry id="makedb">
621 <term><command>makedb</command></term>
622 <listitem>
623 <para>Creates a simple database from textual input</para>
624 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc makedb">
625 <primary sortas="b-makedb">makedb</primary>
626 </indexterm>
627 </listitem>
628 </varlistentry>
629
630 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
631 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
632 <listitem>
633 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary
634 in human-readable format</para>
635 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
636 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
637 </indexterm>
638 </listitem>
639 </varlistentry>
640
641 <varlistentry id="nscd">
642 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
643 <listitem>
644 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
645 service requests</para>
646 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
647 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
648 </indexterm>
649 </listitem>
650 </varlistentry>
651
652 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
653 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
654 <listitem>
655 <para>Dump information generated by PC profiling</para>
656 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
657 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
658 </indexterm>
659 </listitem>
660 </varlistentry>
661
662 <varlistentry id="pldd">
663 <term><command>pldd</command></term>
664 <listitem>
665 <para>Lists dynamic shared objects used by running processes</para>
666 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pldd">
667 <primary sortas="b-pldd">pldd</primary>
668 </indexterm>
669 </listitem>
670 </varlistentry>
671
672 <varlistentry id="sln">
673 <term><command>sln</command></term>
674 <listitem>
675 <para>A statically linked <command>ln</command> program</para>
676 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
677 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
678 </indexterm>
679 </listitem>
680 </varlistentry>
681
682 <varlistentry id="sotruss">
683 <term><command>sotruss</command></term>
684 <listitem>
685 <para>Traces shared library procedure calls of a specified command</para>
686 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sotruss">
687 <primary sortas="b-sotruss">sotruss</primary>
688 </indexterm>
689 </listitem>
690 </varlistentry>
691
692 <varlistentry id="sprof">
693 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
694 <listitem>
695 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
696 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
697 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
698 </indexterm>
699 </listitem>
700 </varlistentry>
701
702 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
703 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
704 <listitem>
705 <para>Asks the user about the location of the system and reports
706 the corresponding time zone description</para>
707 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
708 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
709 </indexterm>
710 </listitem>
711 </varlistentry>
712
713 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
714 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
715 <listitem>
716 <para>Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently
717 executed function</para>
718 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
719 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
720 </indexterm>
721 </listitem>
722 </varlistentry>
723
724 <varlistentry id="zdump">
725 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
726 <listitem>
727 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
728 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
729 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
730 </indexterm>
731 </listitem>
732 </varlistentry>
733
734 <varlistentry id="zic">
735 <term><command>zic</command></term>
736 <listitem>
737 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
738 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
739 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
740 </indexterm>
741 </listitem>
742 </varlistentry>
743
744 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
745 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld-*.so</filename></term>
746 <listitem>
747 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
748 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
749 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld-&glibc-version;.so</primary>
750 </indexterm>
751 </listitem>
752 </varlistentry>
753
754 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
755 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
756 <listitem>
757 <para>Used internally by Glibc as a gross hack to get broken programs
758 (e.g., some Motif applications) running. See comments in
759 <filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/locale/broken_cur_max.c</filename>
760 for more information</para>
761 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
762 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
763 </indexterm>
764 </listitem>
765 </varlistentry>
766
767 <varlistentry id="libanl">
768 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
769 <listitem>
770 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
771 asynchronous name lookup library, whose functions are now in
772 <filename class='libraryfile'>libc</filename></para>
773 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
774 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
775 </indexterm>
776 </listitem>
777 </varlistentry>
778
779 <varlistentry id="libc">
780 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
781 <listitem>
782 <para>The main C library</para>
783 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
784 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
785 </indexterm>
786 </listitem>
787 </varlistentry>
788
789 <varlistentry id="libc_malloc_debug">
790 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc_malloc_debug</filename></term>
791 <listitem>
792 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when preloaded</para>
793 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc_malloc_debug">
794 <primary sortas="c-libc_malloc_debug">libc_malloc_debug</primary>
795 </indexterm>
796 </listitem>
797 </varlistentry>
798
799 <varlistentry id="libdl">
800 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
801 <listitem>
802 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was the
803 dynamic linking interface library, whose functions are now in
804 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
805 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
806 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
807 </indexterm>
808 </listitem>
809 </varlistentry>
810
811 <varlistentry id="libg">
812 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
813 <listitem>
814 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was a runtime
815 library for <command>g++</command></para>
816 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
817 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
818 </indexterm>
819 </listitem>
820 </varlistentry>
821
822 <varlistentry id="libm">
823 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
824 <listitem>
825 <para>The mathematical library</para>
826 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
827 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
828 </indexterm>
829 </listitem>
830 </varlistentry>
831
832 <varlistentry id="libmvec">
833 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmvec</filename></term>
834 <listitem>
835 <para>The vector math library, linked in as needed
836 when <filename class='libraryfile'>libm</filename> is used</para>
837 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmvec">
838 <primary sortas="c-libmvec">libmvec</primary>
839 </indexterm>
840 </listitem>
841 </varlistentry>
842
843 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
844 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
845 <listitem>
846 <para>Turns on memory allocation checking when linked to</para>
847 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
848 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
849 </indexterm>
850 </listitem>
851 </varlistentry>
852
853 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
854 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
855 <listitem>
856 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> to help collect
857 information about the memory usage of a program</para>
858 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
859 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
860 </indexterm>
861 </listitem>
862 </varlistentry>
863
864 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
865 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
866 <listitem>
867 <para>The network services library, now deprecated</para>
868 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
869 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
870 </indexterm>
871 </listitem>
872 </varlistentry>
873
874 <varlistentry id="libnss">
875 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss_*</filename></term>
876 <listitem>
877 <para>The Name Service Switch modules, containing functions for
878 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
879 protocols, etc. Loaded by
880 <filename class='libraryfile'>libc</filename> according to the
881 configuration in <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename></para>
882 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
883 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss_*</primary>
884 </indexterm>
885 </listitem>
886 </varlistentry>
887
888 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
889 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
890 <listitem>
891 <para>Can be preloaded to PC profile an executable</para>
892 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
893 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
894 </indexterm>
895 </listitem>
896 </varlistentry>
897
898 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
899 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
900 <listitem>
901 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
902 functions providing most of the interfaces specified
903 by the POSIX.1c Threads Extensions and the semaphore interfaces
904 specified by the POSIX.1b Real-time Extensions, now the functions
905 are in <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
906 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
907 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
908 </indexterm>
909 </listitem>
910 </varlistentry>
911
912 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
913 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
914 <listitem>
915 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
916 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
917 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
918 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
919 </indexterm>
920 </listitem>
921 </varlistentry>
922
923 <varlistentry id="librt">
924 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
925 <listitem>
926 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified
927 by the POSIX.1b Real-time Extensions</para>
928 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
929 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
930 </indexterm>
931 </listitem>
932 </varlistentry>
933
934 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
935 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
936 <listitem>
937 <para>Contains functions useful for building debuggers for
938 multi-threaded programs</para>
939 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
940 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
941 </indexterm>
942 </listitem>
943 </varlistentry>
944
945 <varlistentry id="libutil">
946 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
947 <listitem>
948 <para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously contained
949 code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
950 many different Unix utilities. These functions are now in
951 <filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></para>
952 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
953 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
954 </indexterm>
955 </listitem>
956 </varlistentry>
957
958 </variablelist>
959
960 </sect2>
961
962</sect1>
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