Introduction
The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU systems and most systems with the Linux kernel.
Usage
module load glibc/glibc2.14.1
Installation
mkdir build cd build ../configure -prefix=/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1 make make install create a module file >>>>>>>>>>>>>> prepend-path PATH /sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/bin:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/sbin:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/share:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/share/i18n:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/share/i18n/charmaps:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/share/i18n/locale:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/share/i18n/zoneinfo:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/libexec:/sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/libexec/getconf prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH /sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/lib prepend-path INCLUDE /sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/include >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> After the install: strace localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 ##Do the following after the install ##mkdir /sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/lib/locale/ ##chmod 555 /sw/gcc/glibc/glibc-2.14.1/lib/locale/ ##strace localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
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