lfs-book/chapter05/oldnsslib.xml

<sect1 id="ch05-oldnsslib">
<title>Copying old NSS library files</title>

<para>
If your normal Linux system runs glibc-2.0, you need to copy the NSS library
files to the LFS partition. Certain statically linked programs still depend
on the NSS library, especially programs that need to lookup usernames,userid's
and groupid's. You can check which C library version your normal Linux system
uses by simply executing the library, like this:
</para>

<blockquote><literallayout>
	<userinput>/lib/libc.so.6</userinput>
</literallayout></blockquote>

<para>
The first line will give you the release version. Following lines contain
interesting information. If you have Glibc-2.0.x installed on your starting
distribution, copy the NSS library files by running:
</para>

<blockquote><literallayout>
	<userinput>cp -av /lib/libnss* $LFS/lib</userinput>
</literallayout></blockquote>

</sect1>