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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.
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von Hagen, W. (2006). Using Alternate C Libraries. In: The Definitive Guide to GCC. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0219-6_13
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