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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ.in | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/install.texi | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/llio.texi | 3 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +1999-03-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> + + * manual/llio.texi (Open-time Flags): Clarify that O_SHLOCK and + O_EXLOCK are BSD extensions. + Reported by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de> [PR libc/985]. + 1999-03-08 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * manual/signal.texi (Termination in Handler): Correct example. @@ -566,10 +566,11 @@ prefix to something like /usr/local/glibc2 which is not used for anything.) The dangers when installing glibc in /usr are twofold: * glibc will overwrite the headers in /usr/include. Other C libraries - install a different but overlapping set of headers there, so the - effect will probably be that you can't compile anything. You need to - rename /usr/include out of the way first. (Do not throw it away; you - will then lose the ability to compile programs against your old libc.) + install a different but overlapping set of headers there, so the effect + will probably be that you can't compile anything. You need to rename + /usr/include out of the way before running `make install'. (Do not throw + it away; you will then lose the ability to compile programs against your + old libc.) * None of your old libraries, static or shared, can be used with a different C library major version. For shared libraries this is not a @@ -395,10 +395,11 @@ prefix to something like /usr/local/glibc2 which is not used for anything.) The dangers when installing glibc in /usr are twofold: * glibc will overwrite the headers in /usr/include. Other C libraries - install a different but overlapping set of headers there, so the - effect will probably be that you can't compile anything. You need to - rename /usr/include out of the way first. (Do not throw it away; you - will then lose the ability to compile programs against your old libc.) + install a different but overlapping set of headers there, so the effect + will probably be that you can't compile anything. You need to rename + /usr/include out of the way before running `make install'. (Do not throw + it away; you will then lose the ability to compile programs against your + old libc.) * None of your old libraries, static or shared, can be used with a different C library major version. For shared libraries this is not a diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index cf3023b..5ac0e78 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -222,11 +222,11 @@ from underneath. If you are upgrading from a previous installation of glibc 2.0 or 2.1, @samp{make install} will do the entire job. If you're upgrading from Linux libc5 or some other C library, you need to rename the old -@file{/usr/include} directory out of the way first, or you will end up -with a mixture of header files from both libraries, and you won't be -able to compile anything. You may also need to reconfigure GCC to work -with the new library. The easiest way to do that is to figure out the -compiler switches to make it work again +@file{/usr/include} directory out of the way before running @samp{make +install}, or you will end up with a mixture of header files from both +libraries, and you won't be able to compile anything. You may also need +to reconfigure GCC to work with the new library. The easiest way to do +that is to figure out the compiler switches to make it work again (@samp{-Wl,-dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux.so.2} should work on Linux systems) and use them to recompile gcc. You can also edit the specs file (@file{/usr/lib/gcc-lib/@var{TARGET}/@var{VERSION}/specs}), but diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi index b7dbdef..2e497bf 100644 --- a/manual/llio.texi +++ b/manual/llio.texi @@ -3070,6 +3070,9 @@ Unix before @code{ftruncate} was invented, and is retained for backward compatibility. @end deftypevr +The remaining operating modes are BSD extensions. They exist only +on some systems. On other systems, these macros are not defined. + @comment fcntl.h @comment BSD @deftypevr Macro int O_SHLOCK |