Talloc-2.1.8

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-8.0 platform.

Package Information

Talloc Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.79.1 and libxslt-1.1.29 (To generate man pages), Python-2.7.13 (To build Python-2 module) and Python-3.6.0 (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. The python tests fail due to missing files.

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-35m-x86-64-linux-gnu.so, libpytalloc-util.so, libtalloc.so, talloc.so (Python-2 Module) and talloc.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so (Python-3 Module)
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libtalloc.so

contains a replacement for the Glibc malloc function.

Last updated on 2017-02-20 11:43:55 -0800