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just wondering.. what is the role of glib or glibc or whatever..?

im just curious...
coz there are tons of progz that checks the glib version..
hmmmmm
what does glib glibc or whatever do?
im using redhat8.. what version of glib is installed on my system?
thank you ;)

what is the major role of this prog? hmmmmmm

well which do you want? glib or glibc?

glib is the low-level core library that forms the basis of GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system, while glibc is the GNU C library which contains many functions and procedures for running the core of linux and any application.

Go here on your red hat 8 system:

Code:

[root@localhost bsl1]# cd /usr/share/doc/glibc-2.3.2

[root@localhost glibc-2.3.2]# ls -l

total 308

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        3712 Sep 30  2002 BUGS

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        7284 Jan 11  2001 CONFORMANCE

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        18009 Jul  6  2001 COPYING

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        26536 Aug 26  2002 COPYING.LIB

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        82646 Feb 21 00:17 FAQ

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        24053 Dec  9  2002 INSTALL

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        10728 Aug 20  2002 LICENSES

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        53428 Mar  2 05:45 NEWS

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        10938 Mar 10  2000 NOTES

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        6016 Sep  4  2002 PROJECTS

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        3510 Feb 20 20:27 README

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        5272 Jul 20  2000 README.hesiod

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        31516 Nov  5  1996 README.libm

There's also a README in:

Code:

[root@localhost doc]# cd glib-1.2.10

[root@localhost glib-1.2.10]# ls -l

total 172

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root          802 Feb 25  1999 AUTHORS

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root      120836 Mar 15  2001 ChangeLog

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        26428 Aug 23  1999 COPYING

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        10259 Mar 15  2001 NEWS

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        2032 Mar 15  2001 README

[root@localhost glib-1.2.10]# less README

[root@localhost glib-1.2.10]# pwd

/usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10

regards....

ah i thought glib and glibc is the same....
kewlll ;)
thanks

thanks "itsjustme"
il check it laters.. ;)
god bless