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diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index 3597c7622..19425a92f 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -2,14 +2,7 @@ <para>Last checked against version &glibc-contversion;.</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>Descriptions</title> +<sect3><title>Program files descriptions</title> <sect4><title>catchsegv</title> <para>catchsegv can be used to create a stack trace when a program @@ -107,38 +100,27 @@ function.</para></sect4> </sect3> -<sect3><title>Library Files</title> -<para>ld.so, libBrokenLocale.[a,so], libBrokenLocale_p.a, -libSegFault.so, libanl.[a,so], libanl_p.a, libbsd-compat.a, libc.[a,so], -libc_nonshared.a, libc_p.a, libcrypt.[a,so], libcrypt_p.a, libdl.[a,so], -libdl_p.a, libg.a, libieee.a, libm.[a,so], libm_p.a, libmcheck.a, -libmemusage.so, libnsl.a, libnsl_p.a, libnss_compat.so, libnss_dns.so, -libnss_files.so, libnss_hesiod.so, libnss_nis.so, libnss_nisplus.so, -libpcprofile.so, libpthread.[a,so], libpthread_p.a, libresolv.[a,so], -libresolv_p.a, librpcsvc.a, librpcsvc_p.a, librt.[a,so], librt_p.a, -libthread_db.so, libutil.[a,so] and libutil_p.a</para></sect3> - -<sect3><title>Descriptions</title> +<sect3><title>Library files descriptions</title> <sect4><title>ld.so</title> <para>ld.so is the helper program for shared library executables.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libBrokenLocale, libBrokenLocale_p</title> +<sect4><title>libBrokenLocale</title> <para>Used by software, such as Mozilla, to solve broken locales.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libSegFault</title> <para>libSegFault is a segmentation fault signal handler. It tries to catch segfaults.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libanl, libanl_p</title> +<sect4><title>libanl</title> <para>libanl is an asynchronous name lookup library.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libbsd-compat</title> <para>libbsd-compat provides the portability needed in order to run certain programs in Linux.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libc, libc_nonshared, libc_p</title> +<sect4><title>libc, libc_nonshared</title> <para>These files constitute the main C library. The C library is a collection of commonly used functions in programs. This way a programmer doesn't need to create his own functions for every @@ -156,10 +138,10 @@ documentation that comes with the C library describes this in more detail, as it is too complicated to explain here in one or two lines.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libcrypt, libcrypt_p</title> +<sect4><title>libcrypt</title> <para>libcrypt is the cryptography library.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libdl, libdl_p</title> +<sect4><title>libdl</title> <para>libdl is the dynamic linking interface library.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libg</title> @@ -168,7 +150,7 @@ lines.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libieee</title> <para>libieee is the IEEE floating point library.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libm, libm_p</title> +<sect4><title>libm</title> <para>libm is the mathematical library.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libmcheck</title> @@ -178,7 +160,7 @@ lines.</para></sect4> <para>libmemusage is used by memusage to help collect information about the memory usage of a program.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libnsl, libnsl_p</title> +<sect4><title>libnsl</title> <para>libnsl is the network services library.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>libnss_compat, libnss_dns, libnss_files, @@ -197,17 +179,17 @@ GNU C library,</para></listitem> <para>Code used by the kernel to track CPU time spent in functions, source code lines, and instructions.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libpthread, libpthread_p</title> +<sect4><title>libpthread</title> <para>The POSIX threads library.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libresolv, libresolv_p</title> +<sect4><title>libresolv</title> <para>Functions in this library provide for creating, sending, and interpreting packets to the Internet domain name servers.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>librpcsvc, librpcsvc_p</title> +<sect4><title>librpcsvc</title> <para>Functions in this library provide miscellaneous RPC services.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>librt, librt_p</title> +<sect4><title>librt</title> <para>Functions in this library provide most of the interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para></sect4> @@ -215,7 +197,7 @@ the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension.</para></sect4> <para>Functions is this library are useful for building debuggers for multi-threaded programs.</para></sect4> -<sect4><title>libutil, libutil_p</title> +<sect4><title>libutil</title> <para>Contains code for "standard" functions used in many different Unix utilities.</para></sect4> diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-shortdesc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-shortdesc.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..80d5832be --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/glibc-shortdesc.xml @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +<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> + +</sect2> + diff --git a/appendixa/glibc.xml b/appendixa/glibc.xml index a57cc3986..2aa3e91c6 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc.xml @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ <?dbhtml filename="glibc.html" dir="appendixa"?> &aa-glibc-down; +&aa-glibc-shortdesc; &aa-glibc-desc; &aa-glibc-dep; diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml index 6e6240d89..23d103675 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ <screen>Estimated build time: &glibc-time; Estimated required disk space: &glibc-compsize;</screen> -&c6-glibc-inst; -&aa-glibc-desc; +&aa-glibc-shortdesc; &aa-glibc-dep; +&c6-glibc-inst; </sect1> diff --git a/entities/glibc.ent b/entities/glibc.ent index 37e9d7d15..8a4fe9df6 100644 --- a/entities/glibc.ent +++ b/entities/glibc.ent @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ <!ENTITY c6-cf-glibc SYSTEM "../chapter06/config-glibc.xml"> <!ENTITY aa-glibc SYSTEM "../appendixa/glibc.xml"> +<!ENTITY aa-glibc-shortdesc SYSTEM "../appendixa/glibc-shortdesc.xml"> <!ENTITY aa-glibc-desc SYSTEM "../appendixa/glibc-desc.xml"> <!ENTITY aa-glibc-dep SYSTEM "../appendixa/glibc-dep.xml"> <!ENTITY aa-glibc-down SYSTEM "../appendixa/glibc-down.xml"> |