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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2017-08-02 18:22:58 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2017-08-02 18:22:58 +0530
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Update contributors and latest gcc and binutils versions
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-rw-r--r--manual/contrib.texi28
-rw-r--r--manual/install.texi4
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi
index cc52f60..ffdd771 100644
--- a/manual/contrib.texi
+++ b/manual/contrib.texi
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Nick Alcock for contributing fixes to allow @theglibc{} to be built with the
stack smashing protector enabled.
@item
+John David Anglin for various fixes to the hppa port.
+
+@item
Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and his direction
as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}.
@@ -59,6 +62,9 @@ committee.
Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd.
@item
+DJ Delorie for various fixes.
+
+@item
Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes.
@item
@@ -103,6 +109,10 @@ part of @theglibc{} steering committee.
Steve Ellcey for various fixes.
@item
+
+Mike FABIAN for various fixes to locales.
+
+@item
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho for adding a new class of installed
headers for low-level platform-specific functionality and one such for
PowerPC and various fixes.
@@ -196,6 +206,9 @@ securelevel 0, 1 and 2 and for the implementation for a caching daemon
for NSS (@file{nscd}).
@item
+Akhilesh Kumar for various fixes to locales.
+
+@item
Jeff Law for various fixes.
@item
@@ -216,6 +229,9 @@ improved string functions, a framework for testing IFUNC
implementations, and many bug fixes.
@item
+Rafal Luzynski for various fixes to locales.
+
+@item
Luis Machado for optimized functions on PowerPC.
@item
@@ -255,6 +271,9 @@ David Mosberger-Tang for contributing the port to Linux/Alpha
(@code{alpha-@var{anything}-linux}).
@item
+Wainer dos Santos Moschetta for various fixes to powerpc.
+
+@item
Stephen Moshier for implementing some 128-bit long double format math
functions.
@@ -275,6 +294,9 @@ into the @glibcadj{} main repository and his direction as FSF Project
Steward for @theglibc{}.
@item
+Marko Myllynen for various fixes.
+
+@item
Szabolcs Nagy for various fixes.
@item
@@ -364,6 +386,9 @@ Richard Stallman for his contribution to the @code{getopt} function.
Alfred M. Szmidt for various fixes.
@item
+Chung-Lin Tang for contributing the Nios II port.
+
+@item
Ian Lance Taylor for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation
running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}).
@@ -371,6 +396,9 @@ running Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}).
Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port.
@item
+Pino Toscano for various fixes.
+
+@item
Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp}
function family.
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi
index b8deb9ce..35948b1 100644
--- a/manual/install.texi
+++ b/manual/install.texi
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ GCC 4.9 or newer
GCC 4.9 or higher is required. In general it is recommended to use
the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for building
@theglibc{}, as newer compilers usually produce better code. As of
-release time, GCC 6.3 is the newest compiler verified to work to build
+release time, GCC 7.1 is the newest compiler verified to work to build
@theglibc{}.
For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), GCC 6.2 or higher is
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ GNU @code{binutils} 2.25 or later
You must use GNU @code{binutils} (as and ld) to build @theglibc{}.
No other assembler or linker has the necessary functionality at the
-moment. As of release time, GNU @code{binutils} 2.25 is the newest
+moment. As of release time, GNU @code{binutils} 2.27 is the newest
verified to work to build @theglibc{}.
@item