Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.0

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Talloc-2.3.1

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-10.0 platform.

Package Information

Talloc Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.79.2 and libxslt-1.1.34 (To generate man pages), Python-2.7.18 (To build Python-2 module), GDB-9.2, git-2.28.0, xfsprogs-5.7.0, libtirpc-1.2.6, and Valgrind-3.16.1

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-38-<arch>-linux-gnu.so, libpytalloc-util.so, libtalloc.so, talloc.so (Python-2 Module) and talloc.cpython-38-<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 2020-08-16 21:26:53 -0700