Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.2

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Talloc-2.3.4

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-11.2 platform.

Package Information

Talloc Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2 and libxslt-1.1.36 (To generate man pages), GDB-12.1, git-2.37.2, libnsl-2.0.0, libtirpc-1.3.3, Valgrind-3.19.0, and xfsprogs-5.19.0

User Notes: https://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-310-<arch>-linux-gnu.so, libtalloc.so, talloc.so (Python-2 Module) and talloc.cpython-310-<arch>-linux-gnu.so (Python-3 Module)
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libtalloc.so

contains a replacement for the Glibc malloc function