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| author | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-12-05 22:15:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-12-05 22:15:52 +0000 |
| commit | effbd42a77aabc36d0d3905da0e7348acb387269 (patch) | |
| tree | cec9ec19fdc66caa508301956c73f6f24605df43 /ports | |
| parent | 876003656904bdb1e9059a976ce954de74a07bd4 (diff) | |
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Ports-related README updates.
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| -rw-r--r-- | ports/ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ports/README | 17 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/ports/ChangeLog b/ports/ChangeLog index 5adf0ec..aa9ccc2 100644 --- a/ports/ChangeLog +++ b/ports/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2012-07-03 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> + * README: Don't refer to ports as a separate repository. Don't + refer to scripts/data/. + * .gitignore: Remove file. * Banner: Likewise. * Makefile: Likewise. diff --git a/ports/README b/ports/README index 51e0a30..7c27ccc 100644 --- a/ports/README +++ b/ports/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is the glibc ports repository, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc). +This is the glibc ports add-on, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc). It contains code that is not maintained in the official glibc source tree. This includes working ports to GNU/Linux on some machine architectures that @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ but may be useful for some future porter to examine. It may also include some optimized functions tailored for specific CPU implementations of an architecture, to be selected using --with-cpu. -The ports repository is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the -<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in a separate -ports git repository. See +The ports add-on is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the +<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in the ports +subdirectory of the glibc git repository. See http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html for details on using -git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports repository, please -go to http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under -the glibc "ports" component. +git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports add-on, please go to +http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under the +glibc "ports" component. An add-on for an individual port can be made from just the sysdeps/ subdirectories containing the port's code. You may want to include a @@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure file; this can either be written by hand or generated by Autoconf from sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure.in, and follow the rules for glibc add-on configure fragments. No preconfigure file should do anything on an unrelated configuration, so that disparate ports can be put -into a single add-on without interfering with each other. Files that -would go in scripts/data/ for libc go in data/ in ports. +into a single add-on without interfering with each other. Like all glibc add-ons, this must be used by specifying the directory in the --enable-add-ons option when running glibc's configure script. |