lfs-book/appendixa/glibc-shortdesc.xml

<sect2><title>Contents of Glibc</title>

<para>Last checked against version &glibc-contversion;.</para>

<para>Glibc is the C library that provides the system calls and basic
functions such as open, malloc, printf, etc. The C library is used by all
dynamically linked programs.</para>

<para>Glibc installs the following files:</para>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>

<para>catchsegv, gencat, getconf, getent, glibcbug, iconv, iconvconfig,
ldconfig, ldd, lddlibc4, locale, localedef, mtrace, nscd, nscd_nischeck,
pcprofiledump, pt_chown, rpcgen, rpcinfo, sln, sprof, tzselect, xtrace,
zdump and zic</para>

</sect3>

<sect3><title>Library Files</title>
<para>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so],
libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], libc_nonshared.a, libcrypt.[a,so], libdl.[a,so],
libg.a, libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libmcheck.a, libmemusage.so, libnsl.a,
libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so,
libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, libpcprofile.so, libpthread.[a,so],
libresolv.[a,so], librpcsvc.a, librt.[a,so], libthread_db.so and
libutil.[a,so]</para>

</sect3>

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