lfs/chapter06/glibc.xml
Bruce Dubbs 4028929287 Add a patch to glibc for FHS compatibility.
More text/whitespace changes.


git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10482 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
2014-02-18 18:46:43 +00:00

941 lines
35 KiB
XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-glibc" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="glibc.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
<productname>glibc</productname>
<productnumber>&glibc-version;</productnumber>
<address>&glibc-url;</address>
</sect1info>
<title>Glibc-&glibc-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc">
<primary sortas="a-Glibc">Glibc</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
<para>The Glibc package contains the main C library. This library provides
the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and
closing files, reading and writing files, string handling, pattern matching,
arithmetic, and so on.</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>&glibc-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&glibc-ch6-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Glibc</title>
<note>
<para>Some packages outside of LFS suggest installing GNU libiconv in
order to translate data from one encoding to another. The project's
home page (<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/"/>) says
<quote>This library provides an <function>iconv()</function>
implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose
implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.</quote> Glibc provides
an <function>iconv()</function> implementation and can convert from/to
Unicode, therefore libiconv is not required on an LFS system.</para>
</note>
<para>First fix a minor problem when installing the tzselect script:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/\\$$(pwd)/`pwd`/' timezone/Makefile</userinput></screen>
<para>Some of the Glibc programs use non-FHS compilant
<filename class="directory">/var/db</filename> directory to store
their runtime data. Apply the following patch to make such programs
store their runtime data in the FHS-compliant locations:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&glibc-fhs-patch;</userinput></screen>
<para>The Glibc build system is self-contained and will install
perfectly, even though the compiler specs file and linker are still
pointing at <filename class="directory">/tools</filename>. The specs
and linker cannot be adjusted before the Glibc install because the
Glibc autoconf tests would give false results and defeat the goal
of achieving a clean build.</para>
<para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir -v ../glibc-build
cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
<para>Prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">../glibc-&glibc-version;/configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--disable-profile \
--enable-kernel=&min-kernel; \
--enable-obsolete-rpc</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--enable-obsolete-rpc</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>Installs NIS and RPC related headers that are not installed by
default; these are required to rebuild Glibc and by several BLFS
packages.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<important>
<para>In this section, the test suite for Glibc is considered critical.
Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para>
</important>
<para>Generally a few tests do not pass, but you can generally ignore
any of the test failures listed below. Now test the build results:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check 2&gt;&amp;1 | tee glibc-check-log
grep Error glibc-check-log</userinput></screen>
<para>You will probably see an expected (ignored) failure in the
<emphasis>posix/annexc</emphasis> and
<emphasis>conform/run-conformtest</emphasis> tests. In addition the Glibc
test suite is somewhat dependent on the host system. This is a list of the
most common issues:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The <emphasis>nptl/tst-clock2</emphasis>,
<emphasis>nptl/tst-attr3</emphasis>,
<emphasis>tst/tst-cputimer1</emphasis>, and
<emphasis>rt/tst-cpuclock2</emphasis>
tests have been known to fail. The
reason is not completely understood, but indications are that minor
timing issues can trigger these failures.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The math tests sometimes fail when running on
systems where the CPU is not a relatively new genuine Intel or
authentic AMD processor.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When running on older and slower hardware or on systems under
load, some tests can fail because of test timeouts being exceeded.
Modifying the make check command to set a TIMEOUTFACTOR is reported to
help eliminate these errors (e.g. <command>TIMEOUTFACTOR=16
make -k check</command>).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>posix/tst-getaddrinfo4 will always fail due to not having a network
connection when the test is run.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>libio/tst-ftell-partial-wide.out fails because it needs a locale
that has not yet been generated.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Other tests known to fail on some architectures are posix/bug-regex32,
misc/tst-writev, elf/check-textrel, nptl/tst-getpid2, nptl/tst-robust8,
and stdio-common/bug22.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Though it is a harmless message, the install stage of Glibc will
complain about the absence of <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>.
Prevent this warning with:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the configuration file and runtime directory for
<command>nscd</command>:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../glibc-&glibc-version;/nscd/nscd.conf /etc/nscd.conf
mkdir -pv /var/cache/nscd</userinput></screen>
<para>The locales that can make the system respond in a different language
were not installed by the above command. None of the locales are required,
but if some of them are missing, test suites of the future packages would
skip important testcases.</para>
<para>Individual locales can be installed using the
<command>localedef</command> program. E.g., the first
<command>localedef</command> command below combines the
<filename>/usr/share/i18n/locales/cs_CZ</filename>
charset-independent locale definition with the
<filename>/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz</filename>
charmap definition and appends the result to the
<filename>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive</filename> file.
The following instructions will install the minimum set of
locales necessary for the optimal coverage of tests:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput remap="locale-test">mkdir -pv /usr/lib/locale
localedef -i cs_CZ -f UTF-8 cs_CZ.UTF-8
localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
localedef -i de_DE@euro -f ISO-8859-15 de_DE@euro
localedef -i de_DE -f UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8
localedef -i en_GB -f UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
localedef -i en_HK -f ISO-8859-1 en_HK
localedef -i en_PH -f ISO-8859-1 en_PH
localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-1 en_US
localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
localedef -i es_MX -f ISO-8859-1 es_MX
localedef -i fa_IR -f UTF-8 fa_IR
localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR
localedef -i fr_FR@euro -f ISO-8859-15 fr_FR@euro
localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8
localedef -i it_IT -f ISO-8859-1 it_IT
localedef -i it_IT -f UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8
localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP
localedef -i ru_RU -f KOI8-R ru_RU.KOI8-R
localedef -i ru_RU -f UTF-8 ru_RU.UTF-8
localedef -i tr_TR -f UTF-8 tr_TR.UTF-8
localedef -i zh_CN -f GB18030 zh_CN.GB18030</userinput></screen>
<para>In addition, install the locale for your own country, language and
character set.</para>
<para>Alternatively, install all locales listed in the
<filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
(it includes every locale listed above and many more) at once with the
following time-consuming command:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="locale-full">make localedata/install-locales</userinput></screen>
<para>Then use the <command>localedef</command> command to create and
install locales not listed in the
<filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/localedata/SUPPORTED</filename> file
in the unlikely case you need them.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="conf-glibc" role="configuration">
<title>Configuring Glibc</title>
<indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
<primary sortas="e-/etc/nsswitch.conf">/etc/nsswitch.conf</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm zone="conf-glibc">
<primary sortas="e-/etc/localtime">/etc/localtime</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>The <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> file needs to be created
because, although Glibc provides defaults when this file is missing or corrupt,
the Glibc defaults do not work well in a networked environment. The time zone
also needs to be configured.</para>
<para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename> by running the
following:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/nsswitch.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: files
group: files
shadow: files
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: files
services: files
ethers: files
rpc: files
# End /etc/nsswitch.conf</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>Install timezone data:</para>
<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../tzdata&tzdata-version;.tar.gz
ZONEINFO=/usr/share/zoneinfo
mkdir -pv $ZONEINFO/{posix,right}
for tz in etcetera southamerica northamerica europe africa antarctica \
asia australasia backward pacificnew systemv; do
zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz}
zic -L /dev/null -d $ZONEINFO/posix -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz}
zic -L leapseconds -d $ZONEINFO/right -y "sh yearistype.sh" ${tz}
done
cp -v zone.tab iso3166.tab $ZONEINFO
zic -d $ZONEINFO -p America/New_York
unset ZONEINFO</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the zic commands:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>zic -L /dev/null ...</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>This creates posix timezones, without any leap seconds. It is
conventional to put these in both
<filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename> and
<filename class="directory">zoneinfo/posix</filename>. It is
necessary to put the POSIX timezones in
<filename class="directory">zoneinfo</filename>, otherwise various
test-suites will report errors. On an embedded system, where space is
tight and you do not intend to ever update the timezones, you could save
1.9MB by not using the <filename class="directory">posix</filename>
directory, but some applications or test-suites might give less good
results</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>zic -L leapseconds ...</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>This creates right timezones, including leap seconds. On an
embedded system, where space is tight and you do not intend to
ever update the timezones, or care about the correct time, you could
save 1.9MB by omitting the <filename class="directory">right</filename>
directory.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>zic ... -p ...</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>This creates the <filename>posixrules</filename> file. We use
New York because POSIX requires the daylight savings time rules
to be in accordance with US rules.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>One way to determine the local time zone is to run the following
script:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tzselect</userinput></screen>
<para>After answering a few questions about the location, the script will
output the name of the time zone (e.g.,
<emphasis>America/Edmonton</emphasis>). There are also some other possible
timezones listed in <filename
class='directory'>/usr/share/zoneinfo</filename> such as
<emphasis>Canada/Eastern</emphasis> or <emphasis>EST5EDT</emphasis> that
are not identified by the script but can be used.</para>
<para>Then create the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file by
running:</para>
<screen><userinput>cp -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> /etc/localtime</userinput></screen>
<para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the
time zone selected (e.g., Canada/Eastern).</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="conf-ld" role="configuration">
<title>Configuring the Dynamic Loader</title>
<indexterm zone="conf-ld">
<primary sortas="e-/etc/ld.so.conf">/etc/ld.so.conf</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>By default, the dynamic loader (<filename
class="libraryfile">/lib/ld-linux.so.2</filename>) searches through
<filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and <filename
class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for dynamic libraries that are
needed by programs as they are run. However, if there are libraries in
directories other than <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>, these need to be added
to the <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> file in order for the
dynamic loader to find them. Two directories that are commonly known
to contain additional libraries are <filename
class="directory">/usr/local/lib</filename> and <filename
class="directory">/opt/lib</filename>, so add those directories to the
dynamic loader's search path.</para>
<para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> by running the
following:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Begin /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/lib
/opt/lib
</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>If desired, the dynamic loader can also search a directory and
include the contents of files found there. Generally the files in
this include directory are one line specifying the desired library path.
To add this capability run the following commands:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /etc/ld.so.conf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Add an include directory
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
</literal>
EOF
mkdir -pv /etc/ld.so.conf.d</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-glibc" role="content">
<title>Contents of Glibc</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, iconv, iconvconfig, ldconfig,
ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, makedb, mtrace, nscd, pcprofiledump,
pldd, rpcgen, sln, sotruss, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
zdump, and zic</seg>
<seg>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.{a,so}, libSegFault.so, libanl.{a,so},
libc.{a,so}, libc_nonshared.a, libcidn.so,
libcrypt.{a,so}, libdl.{a,so}, libg.a, libieee.a, libm.{a,so},
libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libnsl.{a,so}, libnss_compat.so,
libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so,
libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so, libpthread.{a,so},
libpthread_nonshared.a, libresolv.{a,so}, librpcsvc.a, librt.{a,so},
libthread_db.so, and libutil.{a,so}</seg>
<seg>/usr/include/arpa, /usr/include/bits, /usr/include/gnu,
/usr/include/net, /usr/include/netash, /usr/include/netatalk,
/usr/include/netax25, /usr/include/neteconet, /usr/include/netinet,
/usr/include/netipx, /usr/include/netiucv, /usr/include/netpacket,
/usr/include/netrom, /usr/include/netrose, /usr/include/nfs,
/usr/include/protocols, /usr/include/rpc, /usr/include/rpcsvc,
/usr/include/sys, /usr/lib/audit, /usr/lib/gconv, /usr/lib/locale,
/usr/libexec/getconf, /usr/share/i18n, /usr/share/zoneinfo,
/var/cache/nscd, and /var/lib/nss_db</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="catchsegv">
<term><command>catchsegv</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Can be used to create a stack trace when a program
terminates with a segmentation fault</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc catchsegv">
<primary sortas="b-catchsegv">catchsegv</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="gencat">
<term><command>gencat</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Generates message catalogues</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc gencat">
<primary sortas="b-gencat">gencat</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="getconf">
<term><command>getconf</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Displays the system configuration values for file system
specific variables</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getconf">
<primary sortas="b-getconf">getconf</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="getent">
<term><command>getent</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Gets entries from an administrative database</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc getent">
<primary sortas="b-getent">getent</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="iconv">
<term><command>iconv</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Performs character set conversion</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconv">
<primary sortas="b-iconv">iconv</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="iconvconfig">
<term><command>iconvconfig</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates fastloading <command>iconv</command> module configuration
files</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc iconvconfig">
<primary sortas="b-iconvconfig">iconvconfig</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="ldconfig">
<term><command>ldconfig</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Configures the dynamic linker runtime bindings</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldconfig">
<primary sortas="b-ldconfig">ldconfig</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="ldd">
<term><command>ldd</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Reports which shared libraries are required
by each given program or shared library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ldd">
<primary sortas="b-ldd">ldd</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="lddlibc4">
<term><command>lddlibc4</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Assists <command>ldd</command> with object files</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc lddlibc4">
<primary sortas="b-lddlibc4">lddlibc4</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="locale">
<term><command>locale</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Prints various information about the current locale</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc locale">
<primary sortas="b-locale">locale</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="localedef">
<term><command>localedef</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Compiles locale specifications</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc localedef">
<primary sortas="b-localedef">localedef</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="makedb">
<term><command>makedb</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates a simple database from textual input</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc makedb">
<primary sortas="b-makedb">makedb</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="mtrace">
<term><command>mtrace</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Reads and interprets a memory trace file and displays a summary
in human-readable format</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc mtrace">
<primary sortas="b-mtrace">mtrace</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="nscd">
<term><command>nscd</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>A daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
service requests</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc nscd">
<primary sortas="b-nscd">nscd</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pcprofiledump">
<term><command>pcprofiledump</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Dumps information generated by PC profiling</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pcprofiledump">
<primary sortas="b-pcprofiledump">pcprofiledump</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pldd">
<term><command>pldd</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Lists dynamic shared objects used by running processes</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pldd">
<primary sortas="b-pldd">pldd</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<!--
<varlistentry id="pt_chown">
<term><command>pt_chown</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>A helper program for <command>grantpt</command> to set the owner,
group and access permissions of a slave pseudo terminal</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc pt_chown">
<primary sortas="b-pt_chown">pt_chown</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-->
<varlistentry id="rpcgen">
<term><command>rpcgen</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Generates C code to implement the Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
protocol</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc rpcgen">
<primary sortas="b-rpcgen">rpcgen</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="sln">
<term><command>sln</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>A statically linked <command>ln</command> program</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sln">
<primary sortas="b-sln">sln</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="sotruss">
<term><command>sotruss</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Traces shared library procedure calls of a specified command</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sotruss">
<primary sortas="b-sotruss">sotruss</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="sprof">
<term><command>sprof</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Reads and displays shared object profiling data</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc sprof">
<primary sortas="b-sprof">sprof</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="tzselect">
<term><command>tzselect</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Asks the user about the location of the system and reports
the corresponding time zone description</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc tzselect">
<primary sortas="b-tzselect">tzselect</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="xtrace">
<term><command>xtrace</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Traces the execution of a program by printing the currently
executed function</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc xtrace">
<primary sortas="b-xtrace">xtrace</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="zdump">
<term><command>zdump</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>The time zone dumper</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zdump">
<primary sortas="b-zdump">zdump</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="zic">
<term><command>zic</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>The time zone compiler</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc zic">
<primary sortas="b-zic">zic</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="ld.so">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">ld.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The helper program for shared library executables</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc ld.so">
<primary sortas="c-ld.so">ld.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libBrokenLocale">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libBrokenLocale</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Used internally by Glibc as a gross hack to get broken programs
(e.g., some Motif applications) running. See comments in
<filename>glibc-&glibc-version;/locale/broken_cur_max.c</filename>
for more information</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libBrokenLocale">
<primary sortas="c-libBrokenLocale">libBrokenLocale</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libSegFault">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libSegFault</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The segmentation fault signal handler, used by
<command>catchsegv</command></para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libSegFault">
<primary sortas="c-libSegFault">libSegFault</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libanl">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libanl</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>An asynchronous name lookup library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libanl">
<primary sortas="c-libanl">libanl</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libc">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libc</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The main C library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libc">
<primary sortas="c-libc">libc</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libcidn">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libcidn</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Used internally by Glibc for handling internationalized domain
names in the <function>getaddrinfo()</function> function</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcidn">
<primary sortas="c-libcidn">libcidn</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libcrypt">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libcrypt</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The cryptography library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libcrypt">
<primary sortas="c-libcrypt">libcrypt</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libdl">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libdl</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The dynamic linking interface library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libdl">
<primary sortas="c-libdl">libdl</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libg">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libg</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Dummy library containing no functions. Previously was a runtime
library for <command>g++</command></para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libg">
<primary sortas="c-libg">libg</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libieee">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libieee</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Linking in this module forces error handling rules for math
functions as defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE). The default is POSIX.1 error handling</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libieee">
<primary sortas="c-libieee">libieee</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libm">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libm</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The mathematical library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libm">
<primary sortas="c-libm">libm</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libmcheck">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libmcheck</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Turns on memory allocation checking when linked to</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmcheck">
<primary sortas="c-libmcheck">libmcheck</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libmemusage">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libmemusage</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Used by <command>memusage</command> to help collect
information about the memory usage of a program</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libmemusage">
<primary sortas="c-libmemusage">libmemusage</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libnsl">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libnsl</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The network services library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnsl">
<primary sortas="c-libnsl">libnsl</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libnss">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libnss</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The Name Service Switch libraries, containing functions for
resolving host names, user names, group names, aliases, services,
protocols, etc.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libnss">
<primary sortas="c-libnss">libnss</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libpcprofile">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libpcprofile</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains profiling functions used to track the amount of CPU
time spent in specific source code lines</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpcprofile">
<primary sortas="c-libpcprofile">libpcprofile</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libpthread">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libpthread</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>The POSIX threads library</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libpthread">
<primary sortas="c-libpthread">libpthread</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libresolv">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libresolv</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains functions for creating, sending, and interpreting
packets to the Internet domain name servers</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libresolv">
<primary sortas="c-libresolv">libresolv</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="librpcsvc">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">librpcsvc</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains functions providing miscellaneous RPC services</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librpcsvc">
<primary sortas="c-librpcsvc">librpcsvc</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="librt">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">librt</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains functions providing most of the interfaces specified
by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc librt">
<primary sortas="c-librt">librt</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libthread_db">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libthread_db</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains functions useful for building debuggers for
multi-threaded programs</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libthread_db">
<primary sortas="c-libthread_db">libthread_db</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libutil">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libutil</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>Contains code for <quote>standard</quote> functions used in
many different Unix utilities</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-glibc libutil">
<primary sortas="c-libutil">libutil</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>