Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-426

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Talloc-2.4.3

Introduction to Talloc

Talloc provides a hierarchical, reference counted memory pool system with destructors. It is the core memory allocator used in Samba.

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Package Information

Talloc Dependencies

Optional

docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-nons-1.79.2 and libxslt-1.1.43 (To generate man pages), GDB-16.3, git-2.51.2, libnsl-2.0.1, libtirpc-1.3.7, Valgrind-3.26.0, and xfsprogs-6.17.0

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-313-<arch>-linux-gnu.so, libtalloc.so, and talloc.cpython-313-<arch>-linux-gnu.so (Python 3 Module)
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

libtalloc.so

contains a replacement for the Glibc malloc function