Using Alternate C Libraries
William von Hagen · Apress eBooks · 2006
Chapter 12 discussed building and installing the latest version of the GNU C library, popularly known as Glibc, or simply glibc to its friends. Applications built with the vanilla GCC compilers use Glibc by default, which is usually a good thing from the completeness and simplicity points of view, but Glibc isn’t the only C library game in town. This chapter explores the more popular alternate C libraries that are available for Linux, explaining where to find them, how to build them, and most importantly, why you might want to bother building an alternate C library when you’ve already got a perfectly good GNU C library on your development system. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.