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Last change on this file since 4127a0b was 32edd3a, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 18 years ago

Replace the glibc crosscompile timezone fix patch with the glibc cross hacks patch. The new patch has support for zoneinfo, locales, and librpcsvc.
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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-cross-tools-glibc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
10
11 <title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc">
14 <primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
15 <secondary>cross tools</secondary>
16 </indexterm>
17
18 <sect2 role="package">
19 <title/>
20
21 <para>The Glibc package contains the main C library. This library provides
22 the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and
23 closing files, reading and writing files, string handling, pattern matching,
24 arithmetic, and so on.</para>
25
26 </sect2>
27
28 <sect2 role="installation">
29 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
30
31 <note os="a">
32 <para>Some packages outside of CLFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
33 order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's
34 home page (<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"/>) says
35 <quote>This library provides an <function>iconv()</function>
36 implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose
37 implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.</quote> Glibc provides
38 an <function>iconv()</function> implementation and can convert from/to
39 Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an CLFS system.</para>
40 </note>
41
42 <para os="p1">The following patch will check for the existance of
43 <filename>libgcc_eh</filename>. When GCC is built static the contents of
44 <filename>libgcc_eh</filename> will be in <filename>libgcc</filename>
45 instead. If <filename>libgcc_eh</filename> exists the link to it:</para>
46
47<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-libgcc_eh-patch;</userinput></screen>
48
49 <para os="p3">The following patch fixes an issue that can
50 cause <command>localdef</command> to segfault:</para>
51
52<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-localedef_segfault-patch;</userinput></screen>
53
54 <para os="p5">The following patch builds <filename>zic-native</filename>,
55 <filename>localedef-native</filename>, and
56 <filename>rpcgen-native</filename>. <filename>zic-native</filename> is used
57 to generate the zoneinfo, <filename>localedef-native</filename> is used to
58 generate the locale archive, and <filename>rpcgen-native</filename> is used
59 to generate part of <filename>librpcsvc.a</filename>. All of which would
60 normally not be available when cross-compiling:</para>
61
62<screen os="p6"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-cross_hacks-patch;</userinput></screen>
63
64 <para os="p7">The following corrects the Minor version, changing the value
65 from 4 to 5:</para>
66
67<screen os="p8"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-minor-patch;</userinput></screen>
68
69 <para os="b">The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the
70 source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
71
72<screen os="c"><userinput>mkdir -v ../glibc-build
73cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
74
75 <para os="d">The following lines need to be added to
76 <filename>config.cache</filename> for Glibc to support NPTL:</para>
77
78<screen os="e"><userinput>echo "libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes" &gt; config.cache
79echo "libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes" &gt;&gt; config.cache</userinput></screen>
80
81 <para os="f">The following line needs to be added to
82 <filename>configparms</filename> to adjust instalation paths:</para>
83
84<screen os="g"><userinput>echo "install_root=${CLFS}" &gt; configparms</userinput></screen>
85
86 <para os="h">Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
87
88<screen os="i"><userinput>BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc" \
89 AR="${CLFS_TARGET}-ar" RANLIB="${CLFS_TARGET}-ranlib" \
90 ../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc \
91 --host=${CLFS_TARGET} --build=${CLFS_HOST} \
92 --disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
93 --with-tls --enable-kernel=2.6.0 --with-__thread \
94 --with-binutils=${CLFS}/cross-tools/bin --with-headers=${CLFS}/usr/include \
95 --cache-file=config.cache</userinput></screen>
96
97 <variablelist os="j">
98 <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
99
100 <varlistentry os="j1">
101 <term><parameter>BUILD_CC="gcc"</parameter></term>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>This sets Glibc to use the current compiler on our system. This is
104 used to create the tools Glibc uses during its build.</para>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry os="j2">
109 <term><parameter>CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc"</parameter></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>This forces Glibc to use the GCC compiler that we made for our target
112 architecture.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry os="j3">
117 <term><parameter>AR="${CLFS_TARGET}-ar"</parameter></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>This forces Glibc to use the <command>ar</command> utility
120 we made for our target architecture.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 </varlistentry>
123
124 <varlistentry os="j4">
125 <term><parameter>RANLIB="${CLFS_TARGET}-ranlib"</parameter></term>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>This forces Glibc to use the <command>ranlib</command> utility
128 we made for our target architecture.</para>
129 </listitem>
130 </varlistentry>
131
132 <varlistentry os="j5">
133 <term><parameter>--disable-profile</parameter></term>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>This builds the libraries without profiling information.
136 Omit this option if profiling on the temporary tools is necessary.</para>
137 </listitem>
138 </varlistentry>
139
140 <varlistentry os="j6">
141 <term><parameter>--enable-add-ons</parameter></term>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>This tells Glibc to utilize all add-ons that are
144 available.</para>
145 </listitem>
146 </varlistentry>
147
148 <varlistentry os="j7">
149 <term><parameter>--with-tls</parameter></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>This tells Glibc to use Thread Local Storage.</para>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154
155 <varlistentry os="j8">
156 <term><parameter>--with-__thread</parameter></term>
157 <listitem>
158 <para>This tells Glibc to use use the __thread for libc and
159 libpthread builds.</para>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162
163 <varlistentry os="j9">
164 <term><parameter>--with-binutils=${CLFS}/cross-tools/bin</parameter></term>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>This tells Glibc to use the Binutils that are specific to
167 our target architecture.</para>
168 </listitem>
169 </varlistentry>
170
171 <varlistentry os="j10">
172 <term><parameter>--cache-file=config.cache</parameter></term>
173 <listitem>
174 <para>This tells Glibc to utilize a premade cache file.</para>
175 </listitem>
176 </varlistentry>
177
178 </variablelist>
179
180 <para os="k">During this stage the following warning might appear:</para>
181
182<blockquote os="l"><screen><computeroutput>configure: WARNING:
183*** These auxiliary programs are missing or
184*** incompatible versions: msgfmt
185*** some features will be disabled.
186*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</computeroutput></screen></blockquote>
187
188 <para os="m">The missing or incompatible <command>msgfmt</command> program is
189 generally harmless. This <command>msgfmt</command> program is part of the
190 Gettext package which the host distribution should provide.</para>
191
192 <para os="n">Compile the package:</para>
193
194<screen os="o"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
195
196 <para os="p">Install the package:</para>
197
198<screen os="q"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
199
200 </sect2>
201
202 <sect2 id="i18n-glibc" role="configuration">
203 <title>Internationalization</title>
204
205 <para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different
206 language were not installed by the above command. Install them
207 with:</para>
208
209<screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
210
211 <para>To save time, an alternative to running the previous command (which
212 generates and installs every locale listed in the
213 glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED file) is to install only
214 those locales that are wanted and needed. This can be achieved by using
215 the <command>localedef</command> command. Information on this command is
216 located in the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file in the Glibc source.
217 However, there are a number of locales that are essential in order for the
218 tests of future packages to pass, in particular, the
219 <emphasis>libstdc++</emphasis> tests from GCC. The following instructions,
220 instead of the <parameter>install-locales</parameter> target used above,
221 will install the minimum set of locales necessary for the tests to run
222 successfully:</para>
223
224<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv ${CLFS}/usr/lib/locale
225export I18NPATH=${PWD}/localedata
226export GCONV_PATH=${PWD}/iconvdata
227export LOCALEDEF="${PWD}/locale/localedef-native --alias-file=../intl/locale.alias"
228cd ../glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata
229${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/de_DE -f charmaps/ISO-8859-1 --prefix=${CLFS} de_DE
230${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/de_DE@euro -f charmaps/ISO-8859-15 --prefix=${CLFS} de_DE@euro
231${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/en_HK -f charmaps/ISO-8859-1 --prefix=${CLFS} en_HK
232${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/en_PH -f charmaps/ISO-8859-1 --prefix=${CLFS} en_PH
233${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/en_US -f charmaps/ISO-8859-1 --prefix=${CLFS} en_US
234${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/es_MX -f charmaps/ISO-8859-1 --prefix=${CLFS} es_MX
235${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/fa_IR -f charmaps/UTF-8 --prefix=${CLFS} fa_IR
236${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/fr_FR -f charmaps/ISO-8859-1 --prefix=${CLFS} fr_FR
237${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/fr_FR@euro -f charmaps/ISO-8859-15 --prefix=${CLFS} fr_FR@euro
238${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/it_IT -f charmaps/ISO-8859-1 --prefix=${CLFS} it_IT
239${LOCALEDEF} -i locales/ja_JP -f charmaps/EUC-JP --prefix=${CLFS} ja_JP</userinput></screen>
240
241 <para>Some locales installed by the <command>make
242 localedata/install-locales</command> command above are not properly
243 supported by some applications that are in the LFS and BLFS books. Because
244 of the various problems that arise due to application programmers making
245 assumptions that break in such locales, CLFS should not be used in locales
246 that utilize multibyte character sets (including UTF-8) or right-to-left
247 writing order. Numerous unofficial and unstable patches are required to
248 fix these problems, and it has been decided by the CLFS developers not to
249 support such complex locales at this time. This applies to the ja_JP and
250 fa_IR locales as well&mdash;they have been installed only for GCC and
251 Gettext tests to pass, and the <command>watch</command> program (part of
252 the Procps package) does not work properly in them. Various attempts to
253 circumvent these restrictions are documented in internationalization-related
254 hints.</para>
255
256 </sect2>
257
258 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
259 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
260
261 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
262 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
263 </indexterm>
264
265 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
266 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268
269 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
270 because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is missing or
271 corrupt, the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment.
272 The time zone also needs to be configured.</para>
273
274 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running
275 the following:</para>
276
277<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ${CLFS}/etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
278<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
279
280passwd: files
281group: files
282shadow: files
283
284hosts: files dns
285networks: files
286
287protocols: files
288services: files
289ethers: files
290rpc: files
291
292# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
293EOF</userinput></screen>
294
295 <para>To determine the local time zone, run the following script:</para>
296
297<screen role="nodump"><userinput>TZDIR="${CLFS}/usr/share/zoneinfo" ${CLFS}/usr/bin/tzselect</userinput></screen>
298
299 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
300 output the name of the time zone (e.g., <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> or
301 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis>). Then create the
302 <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by running:</para>
303
304<screen><userinput>cp -v --remove-destination ${CLFS}/usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> \
305 ${CLFS}/etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
306
307 <para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the time zone
308 that <command>tzselect</command> provided (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
309
310 <variablelist>
311 <title>The meaning of the cp option:</title>
312
313 <varlistentry>
314 <term><parameter>--remove-destination</parameter></term>
315 <listitem>
316 <para>This is needed to force removal of the already existing symbolic
317 link. The reason for copying the file instead of using a symlink is to
318 cover the situation where <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
319 is on a separate partition. This could be important when booted into
320 single user mode.</para>
321 </listitem>
322 </varlistentry>
323 </variablelist>
324
325 </sect2>
326
327 <sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
328 <title>Configuring The Dynamic Loader</title>
329
330 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
331 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
332 </indexterm>
333
334 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
335 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
336 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename
337 class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries that are
338 needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are libraries in
339 directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
340 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be
341 added to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order
342 for the dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly
343 known to contain additional libraries are <filename
344 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
345 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
346 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
347
348 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
349 following:</para>
350
351<screen><userinput>cat &gt; ${CLFS}/etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
352<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
353
354/usr/local/lib
355/opt/lib
356
357# End /etc/ld.so.conf</literal>
358EOF</userinput></screen>
359
360 </sect2>
361
362 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
363 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
364
365 <segmentedlist>
366 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
367 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
368
369 <seglistitem>
370 <seg>catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
371 ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, mtrace, nscd,
372 pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen, rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
373 zdump, and zic</seg>
374 <seg>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so],
375 libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], libcrypt.[a,so], libdl.[a,so], libg.a,
376 libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libnsl.a,
377 libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
378 libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so, libpthread.[a,so],
379 libresolv.[a,so], librpcsvc.a, librt.[a,so], libthread_db.so, and
380 libutil.[a,so]</seg>
381 </seglistitem>
382 </segmentedlist>
383
384 <variablelist>
385 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
386 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
387 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
388
389 <varlistentry id="catchsegv">
390 <term><command>catchsegv</command></term>
391 <listitem>
392 <para>Can be used to create a stack trace when a program
393 terminates with a segmentation fault</para>
394 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc catchsegv">
395 <primary sortas="b-catchsegv">catchsegv</primary>
396 </indexterm>
397 </listitem>
398 </varlistentry>
399
400 <varlistentry id="gencat">
401 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
402 <listitem>
403 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
404 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc gencat">
405 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
406 </indexterm>
407 </listitem>
408 </varlistentry>
409
410 <varlistentry id="getconf">
411 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system specific
414 variables</para>
415 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc getconf">
416 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
417 </indexterm>
418 </listitem>
419 </varlistentry>
420
421 <varlistentry id="getent">
422 <term><command>getent</command></term>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
425 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc getent">
426 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
427 </indexterm>
428 </listitem>
429 </varlistentry>
430
431 <varlistentry id="iconv">
432 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
433 <listitem>
434 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
435 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc iconv">
436 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
437 </indexterm>
438 </listitem>
439 </varlistentry>
440
441 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
442 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
443 <listitem>
444 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
445 files</para>
446 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc iconvconfig">
447 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
448 </indexterm>
449 </listitem>
450 </varlistentry>
451
452 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
453 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
456 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc ldconfig">
457 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
458 </indexterm>
459 </listitem>
460 </varlistentry>
461
462 <varlistentry id="ldd">
463 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
464 <listitem>
465 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
466 by each given program or shared library</para>
467 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc ldd">
468 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
469 </indexterm>
470 </listitem>
471 </varlistentry>
472
473 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
474 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files</para>
477 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc lddlibc4">
478 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
479 </indexterm>
480 </listitem>
481 </varlistentry>
482
483 <varlistentry id="locale">
484 <term><command>locale</command></term>
485 <listitem>
486 <para>Tells the compiler to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales
487 for built-in operations</para>
488 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc locale">
489 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
490 </indexterm>
491 </listitem>
492 </varlistentry>
493
494 <varlistentry id="localedef">
495 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
496 <listitem>
497 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
498 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc localedef">
499 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
500 </indexterm>
501 </listitem>
502 </varlistentry>
503
504 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
505 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
506 <listitem>
507 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and
508 displays a summary in human-readable format</para>
509 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc mtrace">
510 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
511 </indexterm>
512 </listitem>
513 </varlistentry>
514
515 <varlistentry id="nscd">
516 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
517 <listitem>
518 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
519 service requests</para>
520 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc nscd">
521 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
522 </indexterm>
523 </listitem>
524 </varlistentry>
525
526 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
527 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
528 <listitem>
529 <para>Dumps information generated by PC profiling</para>
530 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc pcprofiledump">
531 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
532 </indexterm>
533 </listitem>
534 </varlistentry>
535
536 <varlistentry id="pt_chown">
537 <term><command>pt_chown</command></term>
538 <listitem>
539 <para>A helper program for <command>grantpt</command> to set the owner,
540 group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal</para>
541 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc pt_chown">
542 <primary sortas="b-pt_chown">pt_chown</primary>
543 </indexterm>
544 </listitem>
545 </varlistentry>
546
547 <varlistentry id="rpcgen">
548 <term><command>rpcgen</command></term>
549 <listitem>
550 <para>Generates C code to implement the Remote Procecure Call (RPC)
551 protocol</para>
552 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc rpcgen">
553 <primary sortas="b-rpcgen">rpcgen</primary>
554 </indexterm>
555 </listitem>
556 </varlistentry>
557
558 <varlistentry id="rpcinfo">
559 <term><command>rpcinfo</command></term>
560 <listitem>
561 <para>Makes an RPC call to an RPC server</para>
562 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc rpcinfo">
563 <primary sortas="b-rpcinfo">rpcinfo</primary>
564 </indexterm>
565 </listitem>
566 </varlistentry>
567
568 <varlistentry id="sln">
569 <term><command>sln</command></term>
570 <listitem>
571 <para>A statically linked program that creates symbolic links</para>
572 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc sln">
573 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
574 </indexterm>
575 </listitem>
576 </varlistentry>
577
578 <varlistentry id="sprof">
579 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
582 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc sprof">
583 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
584 </indexterm>
585 </listitem>
586 </varlistentry>
587
588 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
589 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
590 <listitem>
591 <para>Asks the user about the location of the
592 system and reports the corresponding time zone description</para>
593 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc tzselect">
594 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
595 </indexterm>
596 </listitem>
597 </varlistentry>
598
599 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
600 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
601 <listitem>
602 <para>Traces the execution of a program by
603 printing the currently executed function</para>
604 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc xtrace">
605 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
606 </indexterm>
607 </listitem>
608 </varlistentry>
609
610 <varlistentry id="zdump">
611 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
612 <listitem>
613 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
614 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc zdump">
615 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
616 </indexterm>
617 </listitem>
618 </varlistentry>
619
620 <varlistentry id="zic">
621 <term><command>zic</command></term>
622 <listitem>
623 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
624 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc zic">
625 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
626 </indexterm>
627 </listitem>
628 </varlistentry>
629
630 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
631 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld.so</filename></term>
632 <listitem>
633 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
634 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc ld.so">
635 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld.so</primary>
636 </indexterm>
637 </listitem>
638 </varlistentry>
639
640 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
641 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
642 <listitem>
643 <para>Used by programs, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales</para>
644 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libBrokenLocale">
645 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
646 </indexterm>
647 </listitem>
648 </varlistentry>
649
650 <varlistentry id="libSegFault">
651 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libSegFault</filename></term>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>The segmentation fault signal handler</para>
654 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libSegFault">
655 <primary sortas="c-libSegFault">libSegFault</primary>
656 </indexterm>
657 </listitem>
658 </varlistentry>
659
660 <varlistentry id="libanl">
661 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
662 <listitem>
663 <para>An asynchronous name lookup library</para>
664 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libanl">
665 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
666 </indexterm>
667 </listitem>
668 </varlistentry>
669
670 <varlistentry id="libbsd-compat">
671 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbsd-compat</filename></term>
672 <listitem>
673 <para>Provides the portability needed
674 in order to run certain Berkey Software Distribution (BSD) programs
675 under Linux</para>
676 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libbsd-compat">
677 <primary sortas="c-libbsd-compat">libbsd-compat</primary>
678 </indexterm>
679 </listitem>
680 </varlistentry>
681
682 <varlistentry id="libc">
683 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
684 <listitem>
685 <para>The main C library</para>
686 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libc">
687 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
688 </indexterm>
689 </listitem>
690 </varlistentry>
691
692 <varlistentry id="libcrypt">
693 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcrypt</filename></term>
694 <listitem>
695 <para>The cryptography library</para>
696 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libcrypt">
697 <primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary>
698 </indexterm>
699 </listitem>
700 </varlistentry>
701
702 <varlistentry id="libdl">
703 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
704 <listitem>
705 <para>The dynamic linking interface library</para>
706 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libdl">
707 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
708 </indexterm>
709 </listitem>
710 </varlistentry>
711
712 <varlistentry id="libg">
713 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
714 <listitem>
715 <para>A runtime library for <command>g++</command></para>
716 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libg">
717 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
718 </indexterm>
719 </listitem>
720 </varlistentry>
721
722 <varlistentry id="libieee">
723 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libieee</filename></term>
724 <listitem>
725 <para>The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
726 floating point library</para>
727 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libieee">
728 <primary sortas="c-libieee">libieee</primary>
729 </indexterm>
730 </listitem>
731 </varlistentry>
732
733 <varlistentry id="libm">
734 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
735 <listitem>
736 <para>The mathematical library</para>
737 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libm">
738 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
739 </indexterm>
740 </listitem>
741 </varlistentry>
742
743 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
744 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
745 <listitem>
746 <para>Contains code run at boot</para>
747 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libmcheck">
748 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
749 </indexterm>
750 </listitem>
751 </varlistentry>
752
753 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
754 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
755 <listitem>
756 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> (included in Glibc, but
757 not built in a base CLFS system as it has additional dependencies)
758 to help collect information about the memory usage of a program</para>
759 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libmemusage">
760 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
761 </indexterm>
762 </listitem>
763 </varlistentry>
764
765 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
766 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
767 <listitem>
768 <para>The network services library</para>
769 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libnsl">
770 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
771 </indexterm>
772 </listitem>
773 </varlistentry>
774
775 <varlistentry id="libnss">
776 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss</filename></term>
777 <listitem>
778 <para>The Name Service Switch libraries, containing functions for
779 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
780 protocols, etc.</para>
781 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libnss">
782 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss</primary>
783 </indexterm>
784 </listitem>
785 </varlistentry>
786
787 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
788 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
789 <listitem>
790 <para>Contains profiling functions used to track the amount of CPU
791 time spent in specific source code lines</para>
792 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libpcprofile">
793 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
794 </indexterm>
795 </listitem>
796 </varlistentry>
797
798 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
799 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
800 <listitem>
801 <para>The POSIX threads library</para>
802 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libpthread">
803 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
804 </indexterm>
805 </listitem>
806 </varlistentry>
807
808 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
809 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
810 <listitem>
811 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
812 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
813 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libresolv">
814 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
815 </indexterm>
816 </listitem>
817 </varlistentry>
818
819 <varlistentry id="librpcsvc">
820 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librpcsvc</filename></term>
821 <listitem>
822 <para>Contains functions providing miscellaneous RPC services</para>
823 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc librpcsvc">
824 <primary sortas="c-librpcsvc">librpcsvc</primary>
825 </indexterm>
826 </listitem>
827 </varlistentry>
828
829 <varlistentry id="librt">
830 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
831 <listitem>
832 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified by
833 the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension</para>
834 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc librt">
835 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
836 </indexterm>
837 </listitem>
838 </varlistentry>
839
840 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
841 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
842 <listitem>
843 <para>Contains functions useful for
844 building debuggers for multi-threaded programs</para>
845 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libthread_db">
846 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
847 </indexterm>
848 </listitem>
849 </varlistentry>
850
851 <varlistentry id="libutil">
852 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
853 <listitem>
854 <para>Contains code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
855 many different Unix utilities</para>
856 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-glibc libutil">
857 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
858 </indexterm>
859 </listitem>
860 </varlistentry>
861
862 </variablelist>
863
864 </sect2>
865
866</sect1>
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