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[bf8c11f]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">
[c35d00e]31 <para>Some packages outside of CLFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
[bf8c11f]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
[c35d00e]38 Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on a CLFS system.</para>
[bf8c11f]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
[2ab0d61]48 <para os="c">The following patch fixes an issue that can
49 cause <command>localdef</command> to segfault:</para>
[bf8c11f]50
51<screen os="d"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-localedef_segfault-patch;</userinput></screen>
[531b5e5]52
[4a0dbd7]53 <para os="p1">The following patch fixes an issue with iconv:</para>
54
55<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-iconv_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
56
[de99e63]57 <para os="s1">The following sed fixes a build issue with Glibc. This
58 will prevent nscd from trying to link to libraries that don't exist:</para>
[ea522c5]59
[2ab0d61]60<screen os="s2"><userinput>cp -v nscd/Makefile{,.orig}
[41cd9a1]61sed -e "/nscd_stat.o: sysincludes = # nothing/d" nscd/Makefile.orig > \
[2ab0d61]62 nscd/Makefile</userinput></screen>
[ea522c5]63
[bf8c11f]64 <para os="e">The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the
65 source directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
66
[dd9906e]67<screen os="f"><userinput>mkdir -v ../glibc-build
[bf8c11f]68cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
69
70 <para os="g">Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
71
72<screen os="h"><userinput>../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
73 --disable-profile --enable-add-ons --enable-kernel=2.6.0 \
74 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc</userinput></screen>
75
76 <variablelist os="i">
77 <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
78
79 <varlistentry>
80 <term><parameter>--libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc</parameter></term>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>This changes the location of the <command>pt_chown</command>
83 program from its default of <filename
84 class="directory">/usr/libexec</filename> to <filename
85 class="directory">/usr/lib/glibc</filename>.</para>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
88 </variablelist>
89
90 <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
91
92<screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
93
94 <important os="l">
[4394b64]95 <para>The test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
[bf8c11f]96 Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
97 </important>
98
99 <para os="m">Test the results:</para>
100
101<!-- items n,o,p no longer the master, use x86_64 which has no failures -->
102
103<screen os="n"><userinput>make -k check &gt;glibc-check-log 2&gt;&amp;1 ; grep Error glibc-check-log</userinput></screen>
104
105 <para os="o">The Glibc test suite is highly dependent on certain functions of
106 the host system, in particular the kernel. In general, the Glibc test
107 suite is always expected to pass. However, in certain circumstances,
108 some failures are unavoidable. This is a list of the most common
109 issues:</para>
110
111 <itemizedlist os="p">
112 <listitem>
113 <para>The <emphasis>math</emphasis> tests, at least on i686, fail in
[6301b6a]114 the <emphasis>test-double</emphasis> and <emphasis>test-idouble</emphasis>
115 tests with gcc-&gcc-version;, the <command>grep</command> command will
116 also report an expected (ignored) failure in <emphasis>posix/annexc
117 </emphasis>. These two failures in the math tests appear to be harmless.
118 The math tests may also fail on systems where the CPU is not a relatively
119 new genuine Intel or authentic AMD. Certain optimization settings are
120 also known to be a factor here.</para>
[bf8c11f]121 </listitem>
122 <listitem>
123 <para>The <emphasis>gettext</emphasis> test sometimes fails due to
124 host system issues. The exact reasons are not yet clear.</para>
125 </listitem>
126 <listitem>
[b71fa50]127 <para>If you have mounted the CLFS partition with the
[bf8c11f]128 <parameter>noatime</parameter> option, the <emphasis>atime</emphasis> test
129 will fail. As mentioned in <xref linkend="ch-partitioning-mounting"/>,
130 do not use the <parameter>noatime</parameter> option while building
[b71fa50]131 CLFS.</para>
[bf8c11f]132 </listitem>
133 <listitem>
134 <para>When running on older and slower hardware, some tests
135 can fail because of test timeouts being exceeded.</para>
136 </listitem>
137 </itemizedlist>
138
139 <para os="q">Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
140 complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
141 Prevent this warning with:</para>
142
143<screen os="r"><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
144
145 <para os="s">Install the package:</para>
146
147<screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
148
149 </sect2>
150
151 <sect2 id="i18n-glibc" role="configuration">
152 <title>Internationalization</title>
153
154 <para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different
[14cc095]155 language were not installed by the above command. Install them
[bf8c11f]156 with:</para>
157
158<screen><userinput>make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
159
160 <para>To save time, an alternative to running the previous command (which
[50c470c]161 generates and installs every locale listed in the
162 glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED file) is to install only
[bf8c11f]163 those locales that are wanted and needed. This can be achieved by using
164 the <command>localedef</command> command. Information on this command is
165 located in the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file in the Glibc source.
166 However, there are a number of locales that are essential in order for the
167 tests of future packages to pass, in particular, the
168 <emphasis>libstdc++</emphasis> tests from GCC. The following instructions,
169 instead of the <parameter>install-locales</parameter> target used above,
170 will install the minimum set of locales necessary for the tests to run
171 successfully:</para>
172
[9bfef72]173<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
[bf8c11f]174localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
175localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
176localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
177localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
178localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
179localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
180localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
181localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
182localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
183localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
184localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP</userinput></screen>
185
186 <para>Some locales installed by the <command>make
187 localedata/install-locales</command> command above are not properly
[b71fa50]188 supported by some applications that are in the CLFS and BLFS books. Because
[bf8c11f]189 of the various problems that arise due to application programmers making
[b71fa50]190 assumptions that break in such locales, CLFS should not be used in locales
[bf8c11f]191 that utilize multibyte character sets (including UTF-8) or right-to-left
192 writing order. Numerous unofficial and unstable patches are required to
[b71fa50]193 fix these problems, and it has been decided by the CLFS developers not to
[50c470c]194 support such complex locales at this time. This applies to the ja_JP and
195 fa_IR locales as well&mdash;they have been installed only for GCC and
196 Gettext tests to pass, and the <command>watch</command> program (part of
197 the Procps package) does not work properly in them. Various attempts to
198 circumvent these restrictions are documented in internationalization-related
199 hints.</para>
[bf8c11f]200
201 </sect2>
202
203 <sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
204 <title>Configuring Glibc</title>
205
206 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
207 <primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
208 </indexterm>
209
210 <indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
211 <primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
212 </indexterm>
213
214 <para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
215 because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is missing or
216 corrupt, the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment.
217 The time zone also needs to be configured.</para>
218
219 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running
220 the following:</para>
221
222<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
223<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
224
225passwd: files
226group: files
227shadow: files
228
229hosts: files dns
230networks: files
231
232protocols: files
233services: files
234ethers: files
235rpc: files
236
237# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
238EOF</userinput></screen>
239
240 <para>To determine the local time zone, run the following script:</para>
241
[3680b28]242<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]243
244 <para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
245 output the name of the time zone (e.g., <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> or
246 <emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis>). Then create the
247 <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by running:</para>
248
[dd9906e]249<screen><userinput>cp -v --remove-destination /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> \
[bf8c11f]250 /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
251
252 <para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the time zone
253 that <command>tzselect</command> provided (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
254
255 <variablelist>
256 <title>The meaning of the cp option:</title>
257
258 <varlistentry>
259 <term><parameter>--remove-destination</parameter></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>This is needed to force removal of the already existing symbolic
262 link. The reason for copying the file instead of using a symlink is to
263 cover the situation where <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
264 is on a separate partition. This could be important when booted into
265 single user mode.</para>
266 </listitem>
267 </varlistentry>
268 </variablelist>
269
270 </sect2>
271
272 <sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
[61f8f69]273 <title>Configuring The Dynamic Loader</title>
[bf8c11f]274
275 <indexterm zone="conf-ld">
276 <primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
277 </indexterm>
278
279 <para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
280 class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
281 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename
282 class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries that are
283 needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are libraries in
284 directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
285 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be
286 added to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order
287 for the dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly
288 known to contain additional libraries are <filename
289 class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
290 class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
291 dynamic loader's search path.</para>
292
293 <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
294 following:</para>
295
296<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
297<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
298
299/usr/local/lib
300/opt/lib
301
302# End /etc/ld.so.conf</literal>
303EOF</userinput></screen>
304
305 </sect2>
306
307 <sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
308 <title>Contents of Glibc</title>
309
310 <segmentedlist>
311 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
312 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
313
314 <seglistitem>
315 <seg>catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
[97475d9]316 ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, mtrace, nscd,
[bf8c11f]317 pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen, rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
318 zdump, and zic</seg>
319 <seg>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so],
320 libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], libcrypt.[a,so], libdl.[a,so], libg.a,
321 libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libnsl.a,
322 libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
323 libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so, libpthread.[a,so],
324 libresolv.[a,so], librpcsvc.a, librt.[a,so], libthread_db.so, and
325 libutil.[a,so]</seg>
326 </seglistitem>
327 </segmentedlist>
328
329 <variablelist>
330 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
331 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
332 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
333
334 <varlistentry id="catchsegv">
335 <term><command>catchsegv</command></term>
336 <listitem>
337 <para>Can be used to create a stack trace when a program
338 terminates with a segmentation fault</para>
339 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc catchsegv">
340 <primary sortas="b-catchsegv">catchsegv</primary>
341 </indexterm>
342 </listitem>
343 </varlistentry>
344
345 <varlistentry id="gencat">
346 <term><command>gencat</command></term>
347 <listitem>
348 <para>Generates message catalogues</para>
349 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
350 <primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
351 </indexterm>
352 </listitem>
353 </varlistentry>
354
355 <varlistentry id="getconf">
356 <term><command>getconf</command></term>
357 <listitem>
358 <para>Displays the system configuration values for file system specific
359 variables</para>
360 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
361 <primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
362 </indexterm>
363 </listitem>
364 </varlistentry>
365
366 <varlistentry id="getent">
367 <term><command>getent</command></term>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
370 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
371 <primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
372 </indexterm>
373 </listitem>
374 </varlistentry>
375
376 <varlistentry id="iconv">
377 <term><command>iconv</command></term>
378 <listitem>
379 <para>Performs character set conversion</para>
380 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
381 <primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
382 </indexterm>
383 </listitem>
384 </varlistentry>
385
386 <varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
387 <term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
388 <listitem>
389 <para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
390 files</para>
391 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
392 <primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
393 </indexterm>
394 </listitem>
395 </varlistentry>
396
397 <varlistentry id="ldconfig">
398 <term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
401 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
402 <primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
403 </indexterm>
404 </listitem>
405 </varlistentry>
406
407 <varlistentry id="ldd">
408 <term><command>ldd</command></term>
409 <listitem>
410 <para>Reports which shared libraries are required
411 by each given program or shared library</para>
412 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
413 <primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
414 </indexterm>
415 </listitem>
416 </varlistentry>
417
418 <varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
419 <term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
420 <listitem>
421 <para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files</para>
422 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
423 <primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
424 </indexterm>
425 </listitem>
426 </varlistentry>
427
428 <varlistentry id="locale">
429 <term><command>locale</command></term>
430 <listitem>
431 <para>Tells the compiler to enable or disable the use of POSIX locales
432 for built-in operations</para>
433 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
434 <primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
435 </indexterm>
436 </listitem>
437 </varlistentry>
438
439 <varlistentry id="localedef">
440 <term><command>localedef</command></term>
441 <listitem>
442 <para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
443 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
444 <primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
445 </indexterm>
446 </listitem>
447 </varlistentry>
448
449 <varlistentry id="mtrace">
450 <term><command>mtrace</command></term>
451 <listitem>
452 <para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and
453 displays a summary in human-readable format</para>
454 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
455 <primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
456 </indexterm>
457 </listitem>
458 </varlistentry>
459
460 <varlistentry id="nscd">
461 <term><command>nscd</command></term>
462 <listitem>
463 <para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
464 service requests</para>
465 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
466 <primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
467 </indexterm>
468 </listitem>
469 </varlistentry>
470
471 <varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
472 <term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
473 <listitem>
474 <para>Dumps information generated by PC profiling</para>
475 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
476 <primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
477 </indexterm>
478 </listitem>
479 </varlistentry>
480
481 <varlistentry id="pt_chown">
482 <term><command>pt_chown</command></term>
483 <listitem>
484 <para>A helper program for <command>grantpt</command> to set the owner,
485 group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal</para>
486 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pt_chown">
487 <primary sortas="b-pt_chown">pt_chown</primary>
488 </indexterm>
489 </listitem>
490 </varlistentry>
491
492 <varlistentry id="rpcgen">
493 <term><command>rpcgen</command></term>
494 <listitem>
495 <para>Generates C code to implement the Remote Procecure Call (RPC)
496 protocol</para>
497 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcgen">
498 <primary sortas="b-rpcgen">rpcgen</primary>
499 </indexterm>
500 </listitem>
501 </varlistentry>
502
503 <varlistentry id="rpcinfo">
504 <term><command>rpcinfo</command></term>
505 <listitem>
506 <para>Makes an RPC call to an RPC server</para>
507 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcinfo">
508 <primary sortas="b-rpcinfo">rpcinfo</primary>
509 </indexterm>
510 </listitem>
511 </varlistentry>
512
513 <varlistentry id="sln">
514 <term><command>sln</command></term>
515 <listitem>
516 <para>A statically linked <command>ln</command> program</para>
517 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
518 <primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
519 </indexterm>
520 </listitem>
521 </varlistentry>
522
523 <varlistentry id="sprof">
524 <term><command>sprof</command></term>
525 <listitem>
526 <para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
527 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
528 <primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
529 </indexterm>
530 </listitem>
531 </varlistentry>
532
533 <varlistentry id="tzselect">
534 <term><command>tzselect</command></term>
535 <listitem>
536 <para>Asks the user about the location of the
537 system and reports the corresponding time zone description</para>
538 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
539 <primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
540 </indexterm>
541 </listitem>
542 </varlistentry>
543
544 <varlistentry id="xtrace">
545 <term><command>xtrace</command></term>
546 <listitem>
547 <para>Traces the execution of a program by
548 printing the currently executed function</para>
549 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
550 <primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
551 </indexterm>
552 </listitem>
553 </varlistentry>
554
555 <varlistentry id="zdump">
556 <term><command>zdump</command></term>
557 <listitem>
558 <para>The time zone dumper</para>
559 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
560 <primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
561 </indexterm>
562 </listitem>
563 </varlistentry>
564
565 <varlistentry id="zic">
566 <term><command>zic</command></term>
567 <listitem>
568 <para>The time zone compiler</para>
569 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
570 <primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
571 </indexterm>
572 </listitem>
573 </varlistentry>
574
575 <varlistentry id="ld.so">
576 <term><filename class="libraryfile">ld.so</filename></term>
577 <listitem>
578 <para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
579 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
580 <primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld.so</primary>
581 </indexterm>
582 </listitem>
583 </varlistentry>
584
585 <varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
586 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
587 <listitem>
588 <para>Used by programs, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales</para>
589 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
590 <primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
591 </indexterm>
592 </listitem>
593 </varlistentry>
594
595 <varlistentry id="libSegFault">
596 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libSegFault</filename></term>
597 <listitem>
598 <para>The segmentation fault signal handler</para>
599 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libSegFault">
600 <primary sortas="c-libSegFault">libSegFault</primary>
601 </indexterm>
602 </listitem>
603 </varlistentry>
604
605 <varlistentry id="libanl">
606 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
607 <listitem>
608 <para>An asynchronous name lookup library</para>
609 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
610 <primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
611 </indexterm>
612 </listitem>
613 </varlistentry>
614
615 <varlistentry id="libbsd-compat">
616 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbsd-compat</filename></term>
617 <listitem>
618 <para>Provides the portability needed
619 in order to run certain Berkey Software Distribution (BSD) programs
620 under Linux</para>
621 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libbsd-compat">
622 <primary sortas="c-libbsd-compat">libbsd-compat</primary>
623 </indexterm>
624 </listitem>
625 </varlistentry>
626
627 <varlistentry id="libc">
628 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
629 <listitem>
630 <para>The main C library</para>
631 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
632 <primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
633 </indexterm>
634 </listitem>
635 </varlistentry>
636
637 <varlistentry id="libcrypt">
638 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcrypt</filename></term>
639 <listitem>
640 <para>The cryptography library</para>
641 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcrypt">
642 <primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary>
643 </indexterm>
644 </listitem>
645 </varlistentry>
646
647 <varlistentry id="libdl">
648 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
649 <listitem>
650 <para>The dynamic linking interface library</para>
651 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
652 <primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
653 </indexterm>
654 </listitem>
655 </varlistentry>
656
657 <varlistentry id="libg">
658 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
659 <listitem>
660 <para>A runtime library for <command>g++</command></para>
661 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
662 <primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
663 </indexterm>
664 </listitem>
665 </varlistentry>
666
667 <varlistentry id="libieee">
668 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libieee</filename></term>
669 <listitem>
670 <para>The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
671 floating point library</para>
672 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libieee">
673 <primary sortas="c-libieee">libieee</primary>
674 </indexterm>
675 </listitem>
676 </varlistentry>
677
678 <varlistentry id="libm">
679 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
680 <listitem>
681 <para>The mathematical library</para>
682 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
683 <primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
684 </indexterm>
685 </listitem>
686 </varlistentry>
687
688 <varlistentry id="libmcheck">
689 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
690 <listitem>
691 <para>Contains code run at boot</para>
692 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
693 <primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
694 </indexterm>
695 </listitem>
696 </varlistentry>
697
698 <varlistentry id="libmemusage">
699 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
700 <listitem>
701 <para>Used by <command>memusage</command> to help collect
702 information about the memory usage of a program</para>
703 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
704 <primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
705 </indexterm>
706 </listitem>
707 </varlistentry>
708
709 <varlistentry id="libnsl">
710 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
711 <listitem>
712 <para>The network services library</para>
713 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
714 <primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
715 </indexterm>
716 </listitem>
717 </varlistentry>
718
719 <varlistentry id="libnss">
720 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss</filename></term>
721 <listitem>
722 <para>The Name Service Switch libraries, containing functions for
723 resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
724 protocols, etc.</para>
725 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
726 <primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss</primary>
727 </indexterm>
728 </listitem>
729 </varlistentry>
730
731 <varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
732 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
733 <listitem>
734 <para>Contains profiling functions used to track the amount of CPU
735 time spent in specific source code lines</para>
736 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
737 <primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
738 </indexterm>
739 </listitem>
740 </varlistentry>
741
742 <varlistentry id="libpthread">
743 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
744 <listitem>
745 <para>The POSIX threads library</para>
746 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
747 <primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
748 </indexterm>
749 </listitem>
750 </varlistentry>
751
752 <varlistentry id="libresolv">
753 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
754 <listitem>
755 <para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
756 packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
757 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
758 <primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
759 </indexterm>
760 </listitem>
761 </varlistentry>
762
763 <varlistentry id="librpcsvc">
764 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librpcsvc</filename></term>
765 <listitem>
766 <para>Contains functions providing miscellaneous RPC services</para>
767 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librpcsvc">
768 <primary sortas="c-librpcsvc">librpcsvc</primary>
769 </indexterm>
770 </listitem>
771 </varlistentry>
772
773 <varlistentry id="librt">
774 <term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
775 <listitem>
776 <para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified by
777 the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension</para>
778 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
779 <primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
780 </indexterm>
781 </listitem>
782 </varlistentry>
783
784 <varlistentry id="libthread_db">
785 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
786 <listitem>
787 <para>Contains functions useful for
788 building debuggers for multi-threaded programs</para>
789 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
790 <primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
791 </indexterm>
792 </listitem>
793 </varlistentry>
794
795 <varlistentry id="libutil">
796 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>Contains code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
799 many different Unix utilities</para>
800 <indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
801 <primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
802 </indexterm>
803 </listitem>
804 </varlistentry>
805
806 </variablelist>
807
808 </sect2>
809
810</sect1>
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