Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.9

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Talloc-2.1.5

Introduction to Talloc

Talloc provides a hierarchical, reference counted memory pool system with destructors. It is the core memory allocator used in Samba.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.9 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://www.samba.org/ftp/talloc/talloc-2.1.5.tar.gz

  • Download MD5 sum: f497cb42b3d9622b721b72146f1fa3be

  • Download size: 428 KB

  • Estimated disk space required: 7.0 MB (additional 0.2 MB for tests)

  • Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU for tests)

Talloc Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.79.1 and libxslt-1.1.28 (To generate man pages), Python-2.7.11 (To build Python-2 module) and Python-3.5.1 (To build Python-3 module)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/talloc

Installation of Talloc

Install Talloc by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To check the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--extra-python=PYTHON: This switch enables building selected libraries for the specified additional version of Python (example: --extra-python=/usr/bin/python3).

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libpytalloc-util.cpython-34m.so, libpytalloc-util.so, libtalloc.so, talloc.so (Python-2 Module) and talloc.cpython-34m.so (Python-3 Module)
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libtalloc.so

contains a replacemnt for the Glibc malloc function.

Last updated on 2016-02-24 00:06:22 -0800