Re: Directory structure of glibc and header files installed on Linux

[Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>]

> Il giorno 4 mar 2021, alle ore 23:38, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> 
>> 
>> FWIW, whenever I need to build a project I don't know how to build yet, I
>> often look at how my distro does that. If it's something complicated (which
>> seems to be the case with glibc), I use the configuration provided by my
>> distro.
>> 
>> You said you're using Ubuntu. I found that Ubuntu provides a way to build a
>> package from source by using `apt source …` and then `dpkg-buildpackage …`,
>> see: https://askubuntu.com/a/246721/266507 (unless I misunderstand
>> something, the `dpkg-buildpackage` will probably run a script that in turn
>> runs `configure`, `make`, etc, and at the end would package a deb file).
>> 
>> Side note: apt will download sources for the version of glibc that is
>> installed in your Ubuntu. Ubuntu is mostly known as a distro providing
>> ancient software (except perhaps browsers), so the glibc you'll get will
>> likely be very old. It may or may not be what you want.
> 
> Debian packages are old. It just creates a .deb file. It introduces
> another sets of tools which I don't know the details. If there are any
> problems, I will not know how to fix along the way.
> 
> It is still too complicated. The original question is to understand
> the directory structure. Then, the question became, compile glibc,
> installing system from scratch ... I don't think approaches like this
> makes sense. it makes a simple thing more complicated than necessary.
> 

The problem here is we giving you the readily available information and steps on how you can proceed and obtain what you initially want, but you instead want *us* to spend time compiling and summarizes games instead of do yourself the research.

> I think the main problem is that there is not a doc for the directory
> structure of glibc. That should have been done.

I do not disagree, if you want to contribute I can give you access to glibc wiki and help you document this properly.