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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Version 2.17 14797, 14801, 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871. +* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory + of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately. + * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro. * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x. @@ -51,6 +54,13 @@ Version 2.17 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself; this is the default if --disable-nscd is used. +* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and + bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc. + +* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for + distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version + information in --help and --version output. + * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. |