Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 2021-04-13

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Talloc-2.3.2

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-10.1 platform.

Package Information

Talloc Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.79.2 and libxslt-1.1.34 (To generate man pages), GDB-10.1, git-2.31.1, libnsl-1.3.0, libtirpc-1.3.1, Valgrind-3.17.0, and xfsprogs-5.11.0

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

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libpytalloc-util.cpython-39-<arch>-linux-gnu.so, libtalloc.so, talloc.so (Python-2 Module) and talloc.cpython-39-<arch>-linux-gnu.so (Python-3 Module)
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libtalloc.so

contains a replacement for the Glibc malloc function

Last updated on 2021-03-05 10:34:40 -0600