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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-glibc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
10
11 <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc">
14 <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Glibc package contains the main C library. This library provides
21 the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and
22 closing files, reading and writing files, string handling, pattern matching,
23 arithmetic, and so on.</para>
24
25 </sect2>
26
27 <sect2 role="installation">
28 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
29
30 <note os="z">
31 <para>Some packages outside of CLFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
32 order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's
33 home page (<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"/>) says
34 <quote>This library provides an <function>iconv()</function>
35 implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose
36 implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.</quote> Glibc provides
37 an <function>iconv()</function> implementation and can convert from/to
38 Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on a CLFS system.</para>
39 </note>
40
41 <para os="b">The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
42 perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
43 pointing at <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
44 and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
45 Glibc Autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
46 of achieving a clean build.</para>
47
48 <para os="c">The following patch fixes an issue that can
49 cause <command>localdef</command> to segfault:</para>
50
51<screen os="d"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-localedef_segfault-patch;</userinput></screen>
52
53 <para os="p1">The following corrects the Minor version, changing the value
54 from 4 to 5:</para>
55
56<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-minor-patch;</userinput></screen>
57
58 <para os="s1">The following <command>sed</command> fixes a build issue
59 with Glibc. This will prevent <command>nscd</command> from trying to
60 link to libraries that don't exist:</para>
61
62<screen os="s2"><userinput>cp -v nscd/Makefile{,.orig}
63sed -e "/nscd_stat.o: sysincludes = # nothing/d" nscd/Makefile.orig > \
64 nscd/Makefile</userinput></screen>
65
66 <para os="e">The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the
67 source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
68
69<screen os="f"><userinput>mkdir -v ../glibc-build
70cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
71
72 <para os="g">Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
73
74<screen os="h"><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
75 --disable-profile --enable-add-ons --enable-kernel=2.6.0 \
76 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc</userinput></screen>
77
78 <variablelist os="i">
79 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
80
81 <varlistentry>
82 <term><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc</parameter></term>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>This changes the location of the <command>pt_chown</command>
85 program from its default of <filename
86 class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename> to <filename
87 class="directory">/usr/lib/glibc</filename>.</para>
88 </listitem>
89 </varlistentry>
90 </variablelist>
91
92 <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
93
94<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
95
96 <important os="l">
97 <para>The test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
98 Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
99 </important>
100
101 <para os="m">Test the results:</para>
102
103<!-- items n,o,p no longer the master, use x86_64 which has no failures -->
104
105<screen os="n"><userinput>make -k check &gt;glibc-check-log 2&gt;&amp;1 ; grep Error glibc-check-log</userinput></screen>
106
107 <para os="o">The Glibc test suite is highly dependent on certain functions of
108 the host system, in particular the kernel. The posix/annexc test normally fails
109 and you should see <literal>Error 1 (ignored)</literal> in the output. Apart
110 from this, the Glibc test suite is always expected to pass. However, in certain
111 circumstances, some failures are unavoidable. If a test fails because of a missing
112 program (or missing symbolic link), or a segfault, you will see an error code
113 greater than 127 and the details will be in the log. More commonly, tests will
114 fail with <literal>Error 2</literal> - for these, the contents of the corresponding
115 <filename>.out</filename> file, e.g. <filename>posix/annexc.out</filename> may be
116 informative. Here is a list of the most common issues:</para>
117
118 <itemizedlist os="p">
119 <listitem>
120 <para>The <emphasis>math</emphasis> tests sometimes fail.
121 Certain optimization settings are known to be a
122 factor here.</para>
123 </listitem>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>If you have mounted the CLFS partition with the
126 <parameter>noatime</parameter> option, the <emphasis>atime</emphasis> test
127 will fail. As mentioned in <xref linkend="ch-partitioning-mounting"/>,
128 do not use the <parameter>noatime</parameter> option while building
129 CLFS.</para>
130 </listitem>
131 <listitem>
132 <para>When running on older and slower hardware, some tests
133 can fail because of test timeouts being exceeded.</para>
134 </listitem>
135 </itemizedlist>
136
137 <para os="q">Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
138 complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
139 Prevent this warning with:</para>
140
141<screen os="r"><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
142
143 <para os="s">Install the package:</para>
144
145<screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
146
147 </sect2>
148
149 <sect2 id="i18n-glibc" role="configuration">
150 <title>Internationalization</title>
151
152 <para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different
153 language were not installed by the above command. Install them
154 with:</para>
155
156<screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
157
158 <para>To save time, an alternative to running the previous command (which
159 generates and installs every locale listed in the
160 glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED file) is to install only
161 those locales that are wanted and needed. This can be achieved by using
162 the <command>localedef</command> command. Information on this command is
163 located in the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file in the Glibc source.
164 However, there are a number of locales that are essential in order for the
165 tests of future packages to pass, in particular, the
166 <emphasis>libstdc++</emphasis> tests from GCC. The following instructions,
167 instead of the <parameter>install-locales</parameter> target used above,
168 will install the minimum set of locales necessary for the tests to run
169 successfully:</para>
170
171<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
172localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
173localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
174localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
175localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
176localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
177localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
178localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
179localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
180localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
181localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
182localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP</userinput></screen>
183
184 <para>Some locales installed by the <command>make
185 localedata/install-locales</command> command above are not properly
186 supported by some applications that are in the CLFS and BLFS books. Because
187 of the various problems that arise due to application programmers making
188 assumptions that break in such locales, CLFS should not be used in locales
189 that utilize multibyte character sets (including UTF-8) or right-to-left
190 writing order. Numerous unofficial and unstable patches are required to
191 fix these problems, and it has been decided by the CLFS developers not to
192 support such complex locales at this time. This applies to the ja_JP and
193 fa_IR locales as well&mdash;they have been installed only for GCC and
194 Gettext tests to pass, and the <command>watch</command> program (part of
195 the Procps package) does not work properly in them. Various attempts to
196 circumvent these restrictions are documented in internationalization-related
197 hints.</para>
198
199 </sect2>
200
201 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
202 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
203
204 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
205 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
206 </indexterm>
207
208 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
209 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
210 </indexterm>
211
212 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
213 because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is missing or
214 corrupt, the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment.
215 The time zone also needs to be configured.</para>
216
217 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running
218 the following:</para>
219
220<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
221<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
222
223passwd: files
224group: files
225shadow: files
226
227hosts: files dns
228networks: files
229
230protocols: files
231services: files
232ethers: files
233rpc: files
234
235# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
236EOF</userinput></screen>
237
238 <para>To determine the local time zone, run the following script:</para>
239
240<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
241
242 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
243 output the name of the time zone (e.g., <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> or
244 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis>). Then create the
245 <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by running:</para>
246
247<screen><userinput>cp -v --remove-destination /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> \
248 /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
249
250 <para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the time zone
251 that <command>tzselect</command> provided (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
252
253 <variablelist>
254 <title>The meaning of the cp option:</title>
255
256 <varlistentry>
257 <term><parameter>--remove-destination</parameter></term>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>This is needed to force removal of the already existing symbolic
260 link. The reason for copying the file instead of using a symlink is to
261 cover the situation where <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
262 is on a separate partition. This could be important when booted into
263 single user mode.</para>
264 </listitem>
265 </varlistentry>
266 </variablelist>
267
268 </sect2>
269
270 <sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
271 <title>Configuring The Dynamic Loader</title>
272
273 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
274 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
275 </indexterm>
276
277 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
278 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
279 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename
280 class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries that are
281 needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are libraries in
282 directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
283 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be
284 added to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order
285 for the dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly
286 known to contain additional libraries are <filename
287 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
288 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
289 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
290
291 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
292 following:</para>
293
294<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
295<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
296
297/usr/local/lib
298/opt/lib
299
300# End /etc/ld.so.conf</literal>
301EOF</userinput></screen>
302
303 </sect2>
304
305 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
306 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
307
308 <segmentedlist>
309 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
310 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
311
312 <seglistitem>
313 <seg>catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
314 ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, mtrace, nscd,
315 pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen, rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
316 zdump, and zic</seg>
317 <seg>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so],
318 libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], libcrypt.[a,so], libdl.[a,so], libg.a,
319 libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libnsl.a,
320 libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
321 libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so, libpthread.[a,so],
322 libresolv.[a,so], librpcsvc.a, librt.[a,so], libthread_db.so, and
323 libutil.[a,so]</seg>
324 </seglistitem>
325 </segmentedlist>
326
327 <variablelist>
328 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
329 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
330 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
331
332 <varlistentry id="catchsegv">
333 <term><command>catchsegv</command></term>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>Can be used to create a stack trace when a program
336 terminates with a segmentation fault</para>
337 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc catchsegv">
338 <primary sortas="b-catchsegv">catchsegv</primary>
339 </indexterm>
340 </listitem>
341 </varlistentry>
342
343 <varlistentry id="gencat">
344 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
347 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
348 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
349 </indexterm>
350 </listitem>
351 </varlistentry>
352
353 <varlistentry id="getconf">
354 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
355 <listitem>
356 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system specific
357 variables</para>
358 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
359 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
360 </indexterm>
361 </listitem>
362 </varlistentry>
363
364 <varlistentry id="getent">
365 <term><command>getent</command></term>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
368 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
369 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
370 </indexterm>
371 </listitem>
372 </varlistentry>
373
374 <varlistentry id="iconv">
375 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
376 <listitem>
377 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
378 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
379 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
380 </indexterm>
381 </listitem>
382 </varlistentry>
383
384 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
385 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
386 <listitem>
387 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
388 files</para>
389 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
390 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
391 </indexterm>
392 </listitem>
393 </varlistentry>
394
395 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
396 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
399 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
400 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
401 </indexterm>
402 </listitem>
403 </varlistentry>
404
405 <varlistentry id="ldd">
406 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
409 by each given program or shared library</para>
410 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
411 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
412 </indexterm>
413 </listitem>
414 </varlistentry>
415
416 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
417 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
418 <listitem>
419 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files</para>
420 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
421 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
422 </indexterm>
423 </listitem>
424 </varlistentry>
425
426 <varlistentry id="locale">
427 <term><command>locale</command></term>
428 <listitem>
429 <para>Tells the compiler to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales
430 for built-in operations</para>
431 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
432 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
433 </indexterm>
434 </listitem>
435 </varlistentry>
436
437 <varlistentry id="localedef">
438 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
439 <listitem>
440 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
441 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
442 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
443 </indexterm>
444 </listitem>
445 </varlistentry>
446
447 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
448 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
449 <listitem>
450 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and
451 displays a summary in human-readable format</para>
452 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
453 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
454 </indexterm>
455 </listitem>
456 </varlistentry>
457
458 <varlistentry id="nscd">
459 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
460 <listitem>
461 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
462 service requests</para>
463 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
464 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
465 </indexterm>
466 </listitem>
467 </varlistentry>
468
469 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
470 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>Dumps information generated by PC profiling</para>
473 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
474 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
475 </indexterm>
476 </listitem>
477 </varlistentry>
478
479 <varlistentry id="pt_chown">
480 <term><command>pt_chown</command></term>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>A helper program for <command>grantpt</command> to set the owner,
483 group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal</para>
484 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pt_chown">
485 <primary sortas="b-pt_chown">pt_chown</primary>
486 </indexterm>
487 </listitem>
488 </varlistentry>
489
490 <varlistentry id="rpcgen">
491 <term><command>rpcgen</command></term>
492 <listitem>
493 <para>Generates C code to implement the Remote Procecure Call (RPC)
494 protocol</para>
495 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcgen">
496 <primary sortas="b-rpcgen">rpcgen</primary>
497 </indexterm>
498 </listitem>
499 </varlistentry>
500
501 <varlistentry id="rpcinfo">
502 <term><command>rpcinfo</command></term>
503 <listitem>
504 <para>Makes an RPC call to an RPC server</para>
505 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcinfo">
506 <primary sortas="b-rpcinfo">rpcinfo</primary>
507 </indexterm>
508 </listitem>
509 </varlistentry>
510
511 <varlistentry id="sln">
512 <term><command>sln</command></term>
513 <listitem>
514 <para>A statically linked program that creates symbolic links</para>
515 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
516 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
517 </indexterm>
518 </listitem>
519 </varlistentry>
520
521 <varlistentry id="sprof">
522 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
523 <listitem>
524 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
525 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
526 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
527 </indexterm>
528 </listitem>
529 </varlistentry>
530
531 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
532 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>Asks the user about the location of the
535 system and reports the corresponding time zone description</para>
536 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
537 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
538 </indexterm>
539 </listitem>
540 </varlistentry>
541
542 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
543 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>Traces the execution of a program by
546 printing the currently executed function</para>
547 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
548 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
549 </indexterm>
550 </listitem>
551 </varlistentry>
552
553 <varlistentry id="zdump">
554 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
555 <listitem>
556 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
557 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
558 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
559 </indexterm>
560 </listitem>
561 </varlistentry>
562
563 <varlistentry id="zic">
564 <term><command>zic</command></term>
565 <listitem>
566 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
567 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
568 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
569 </indexterm>
570 </listitem>
571 </varlistentry>
572
573 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
574 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld.so</filename></term>
575 <listitem>
576 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
577 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
578 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld.so</primary>
579 </indexterm>
580 </listitem>
581 </varlistentry>
582
583 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
584 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
585 <listitem>
586 <para>Used by programs, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales</para>
587 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
588 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
589 </indexterm>
590 </listitem>
591 </varlistentry>
592
593 <varlistentry id="libSegFault">
594 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libSegFault</filename></term>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>The segmentation fault signal handler</para>
597 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libSegFault">
598 <primary sortas="c-libSegFault">libSegFault</primary>
599 </indexterm>
600 </listitem>
601 </varlistentry>
602
603 <varlistentry id="libanl">
604 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
605 <listitem>
606 <para>An asynchronous name lookup library</para>
607 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
608 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
609 </indexterm>
610 </listitem>
611 </varlistentry>
612
613 <varlistentry id="libbsd-compat">
614 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbsd-compat</filename></term>
615 <listitem>
616 <para>Provides the portability needed
617 in order to run certain Berkey Software Distribution (BSD) programs
618 under Linux</para>
619 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libbsd-compat">
620 <primary sortas="c-libbsd-compat">libbsd-compat</primary>
621 </indexterm>
622 </listitem>
623 </varlistentry>
624
625 <varlistentry id="libc">
626 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
627 <listitem>
628 <para>The main C library</para>
629 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
630 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
631 </indexterm>
632 </listitem>
633 </varlistentry>
634
635 <varlistentry id="libcrypt">
636 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcrypt</filename></term>
637 <listitem>
638 <para>The cryptography library</para>
639 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcrypt">
640 <primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary>
641 </indexterm>
642 </listitem>
643 </varlistentry>
644
645 <varlistentry id="libdl">
646 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
647 <listitem>
648 <para>The dynamic linking interface library</para>
649 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
650 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
651 </indexterm>
652 </listitem>
653 </varlistentry>
654
655 <varlistentry id="libg">
656 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
657 <listitem>
658 <para>A runtime library for <command>g++</command></para>
659 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
660 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
661 </indexterm>
662 </listitem>
663 </varlistentry>
664
665 <varlistentry id="libieee">
666 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libieee</filename></term>
667 <listitem>
668 <para>The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
669 floating point library</para>
670 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libieee">
671 <primary sortas="c-libieee">libieee</primary>
672 </indexterm>
673 </listitem>
674 </varlistentry>
675
676 <varlistentry id="libm">
677 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
678 <listitem>
679 <para>The mathematical library</para>
680 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
681 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
682 </indexterm>
683 </listitem>
684 </varlistentry>
685
686 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
687 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
688 <listitem>
689 <para>Contains code run at boot</para>
690 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
691 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
692 </indexterm>
693 </listitem>
694 </varlistentry>
695
696 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
697 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
698 <listitem>
699 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> (included in Glibc, but
700 not built in a base CLFS system as it has additional dependencies)
701 to help collect information about the memory usage of a program</para>
702 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
703 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
704 </indexterm>
705 </listitem>
706 </varlistentry>
707
708 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
709 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
710 <listitem>
711 <para>The network services library</para>
712 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
713 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
714 </indexterm>
715 </listitem>
716 </varlistentry>
717
718 <varlistentry id="libnss">
719 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss</filename></term>
720 <listitem>
721 <para>The Name Service Switch libraries, containing functions for
722 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
723 protocols, etc.</para>
724 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
725 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss</primary>
726 </indexterm>
727 </listitem>
728 </varlistentry>
729
730 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
731 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
732 <listitem>
733 <para>Contains profiling functions used to track the amount of CPU
734 time spent in specific source code lines</para>
735 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
736 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
737 </indexterm>
738 </listitem>
739 </varlistentry>
740
741 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
742 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
743 <listitem>
744 <para>The POSIX threads library</para>
745 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
746 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
747 </indexterm>
748 </listitem>
749 </varlistentry>
750
751 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
752 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
753 <listitem>
754 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
755 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
756 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
757 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
758 </indexterm>
759 </listitem>
760 </varlistentry>
761
762 <varlistentry id="librpcsvc">
763 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librpcsvc</filename></term>
764 <listitem>
765 <para>Contains functions providing miscellaneous RPC services</para>
766 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librpcsvc">
767 <primary sortas="c-librpcsvc">librpcsvc</primary>
768 </indexterm>
769 </listitem>
770 </varlistentry>
771
772 <varlistentry id="librt">
773 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
774 <listitem>
775 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified by
776 the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension</para>
777 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
778 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
779 </indexterm>
780 </listitem>
781 </varlistentry>
782
783 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
784 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
785 <listitem>
786 <para>Contains functions useful for
787 building debuggers for multi-threaded programs</para>
788 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
789 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
790 </indexterm>
791 </listitem>
792 </varlistentry>
793
794 <varlistentry id="libutil">
795 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
796 <listitem>
797 <para>Contains code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
798 many different Unix utilities</para>
799 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
800 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
801 </indexterm>
802 </listitem>
803 </varlistentry>
804
805 </variablelist>
806
807 </sect2>
808
809</sect1>
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