Glibc 2 HOWTO

Eric Green, ejg3@cornell.edu

1. Introduction.

• 1.1 About glibc 2.
• 1.2 About this document.
• 1.3 Recent changes in this document.

2. Choosing your installation method.

3. Getting the library.

4. Installing as a test library.

• 4.1 Compiling and installing.
• 4.2 Updating the dynamic loader.
• 4.3 Configuring for gcc.
• 4.4 Updating header file links.
• 4.5 Testing your installation.

5. Installing as the primary C library.

• 5.1 Building the library from source.
• 5.2 Preparing for installation.
• 5.3 Installing from the binary package.
• 5.4 Installing from the source.
• 5.5 Updating the gcc specs.
• 5.6 Testing your installation.

6. Compiling with the non-primary libc.

• 6.1 A warning when using non-primary libcs.
• 6.2 Compiling programs with a test glibc.
• 6.3 Compiling programs with libc 5 when glibc is primary library.

7. Compiling C++ programs.

• 7.1 Installing libg++ for a test glibc install.
• 7.2 Installing libg++ for a primary glibc install.
• 7.3 Compiling C++ programs with the non-primary libc.

8. Problems.

• 8.1 Host names do not resolve.

9. Reporting bugs.

10. Sample specs file.

11. Miscellanea.

• 11.1 Further information.
• 11.2 Credits.
• 11.3 Feedback.
• 11.4 Copyright.