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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-04-20 18:41:05 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-04-20 18:41:05 +0000
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1998-04-20 18:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * libc.map: Add __dgettext to GLIBC_2.0 and __libc_longjmp, and __libc_siglongjmp to GLIBC_2.1. * elf/dl-minimal.c (__assert_perror_fail): Don't use strerror, use __strerror_r. * iconv/Makefile: Don't run tests now. * iconv/iconv_prog.c (process_block): If loop is repeated, call iconv with correct output buffer. Major rewrite of the low-level gconv functionality. * iconv/gconv.c: Rewritten. * iconv/gconv.h: Likewise. * iconv/gconv_builtin.c: Likewise. * iconv/gconv_builtin.h: Likewise. * iconv/gconv_conf.c: Likewise. * iconv/gconv_int.h: Likewise. * iconv/gconv_open.c: Likewise. * iconv/gconv_simple.c: Likewise. * iconv/iconv.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/8bit-gap.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/8bit-generic.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/Makefile: Likewise. * iconvdata/big5.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/cns11643.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/cns11643.h: Likewise. * iconvdata/cns11643l1.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/cns11643l1.h: Likewise. * iconvdata/ebcdic-at-de-a.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/ebcdic-at-de.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/ebcdic-ca-fr.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/euccn.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/eucjp.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/euckr.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/euctw.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/gb2312.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/gb2312.h: Likewise. * iconvdata/hp-roman8.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso646.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso6937.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-1.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-10.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-2.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-3.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-4.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-5.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-6.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-7.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-8.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/iso8859-9.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/jis0201.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/jis0201.h: Likewise. * iconvdata/jis0208.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/jis0208.h: Likewise. * iconvdata/jis0212.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/jis0212.h: Likewise. * iconvdata/johab.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/koi-8.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/koi8-r.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/ksc5601.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/ksc5601.h: Likewise. * iconvdata/latin-greek-1.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/latin-greek.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/run-iconv-test.sh: Likewise. * iconvdata/sjis.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/t61.c: Likewise. * iconvdata/uhc.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/btowc.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/mbrtowc.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/mbsnrtowcs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/mbsrtowcs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/wcrtomb.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/wcsmbsload.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/wcsnrtombs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/wcsrtombs.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/wctob.c: Likewise. * iconv/loop.c: New file. * iconv/skeleton.c: New file. * stdlib/mblen.c: Handle empty input string correctly. * stdlib/mbtowc.c: Likewise. * posix/getopt.c: Various cleanups. * sysdeps/arm/bits/setjmp.h: Add copyright text. * sysdeps/i386/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/m68k/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/powerpc/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/generic/longjmp.c: Rename function to __libc_siglongjmp and make longjmp weak alias. 1998-04-18 20:29 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com> * iconv/Makefile (routines): Only include gconv_dl if building for an ELF system - dynamic linking is not available on a.out. (CFLAGS-gconv_conf.c): Define STATIC_GCONV if omitting gconv_dl due to above check. * iconv/gconv_db.c: If STATIC_GCONV defined, don't try to call routines from gconv_dl. 1998-04-17 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com> * csu/init.c (_IO_stdin_used): Protect with USE_IN_LIBIO so that we can compile without libio. 1998-04-20 16:28 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/mach/hurd/Subdirs: Remove login. 1998-04-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com> * db2/compat.h: Include <errno.h>, to make sure we get the definition of EFTYPE before we define it ourselves. 1998-04-10 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com> * sysdeps/generic/bits/socket.h: Protect against multiple inclusion. * sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h: Likewise. Fix typo to allow inclusion from sys/ioctl.h again. 1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * iconvdata/*.[ch]: Clean up namespace. Optimize character lookup. 1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * libc.map: Export __strerror_r. Remove _strerror_internal. 1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/generic/strcasestr.c: Undefine strcasestr, not strstr. Also undefine __strcasestr. 1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * posix/regex.c: Rename __re_max_failures back to re_max_failures, aliases do not work with global variables due to copy relocations. 1998-04-20 15:12 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * manual/creature.texi: Fix type. Patch by Andreas Schwab. 1998-04-20 13:47 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * signal/sighold.c: Include stddef.h for NULL definition. * signal/sigrelse.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/posix/sigignore.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/posix/sigset.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/posix/waitid.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/rt_sigsuspend.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/rt_sigtimedwait.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigwaitinfo.c: Likewise. * wcsmbs/mbsrtowcs.c: Include stdlib.h for MB_CUR_MAX. Patch by Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>. 1998-04-13 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl> * login/Makefile (headers): Remove utmpx.h and bits/utmpx.h. * login/getutent.c (getutxent): Remove alias. * login/getutent_r.c (setutxent, pututxline, endutxent): Remove aliases. * login/getutid.c (getutxid): Remove alias. * login/getutline.c (getutxline): Remove alias. * login/utmp.h: Add prototypes for __updwtmp, __getutent, __getutid, __getutline and __pututline. * login/utmpx.h: Moved to ... * sysdeps/gnu/utmpx.h: ... here. [__USE_GNU]: Define UTMPX_FILE, UTMPX_FILENAME, WTMPX_FILE and WTMPX_FILENAME, declare utmpxname and updwtmpx. * login/updwtmp.c: Moved to ... * sysdeps/generic/updwtmp.c: ... here. (updwtmp): Generalized by allowing file name transformation. * sysdeps/gnu/updwtmp.c: New file. Use generic implementation with additional file name transformation. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/updwtmp.c: Likewise. * login/utmp_file.c: Moved to ... * sysdeps/generic/utmp_file.c: ... here. (setutent_file): Generalized by allowing file name transformation. Do not print error message. Library functions should not print them. Reported by Jim Meyering. * sysdeps/gnu/utmp_file.c: New file. Use generic implementation with additional file name transformation. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/utmp_file.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/gnu/Makefile [$(subdir)=login] (sysdep_routines): Add setutxent, getutxent, endutxent, getutxid, getutxid, getutxline, pututxline, utmpxname and updwtmpx. (sysdep_headers): Add utmpx.h and bits/utmpx.h. * sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h [__USE_GNU] Include paths.h. (_PATH_UTMPX): Define to _PATH_UTMP. (_PATH_WTMPX): Define to _PATH_WTMPX. (RUN_LVL): Define only if __USE_GNU. (ACCOUNTING): Define if __USE_GNU. * sysdeps/gnu/setutxent.c: New file. * sysdeps/gnu/getutxent.c: New file. * sysdeps/gnu/endutxent.c: New file. * sysdeps/gnu/getutxid.c: New file. * sysdeps/gnu/getutxline.c: New file. * sysdeps/gnu/pututxline.c: New file. * sysdeps/gnu/utmpxname.c: New file. * sysdeps/gnu/updwtmpx.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h (_PATH_UTMP_DB): Remove. * sysdeps/generic/bits/utmpx.h: Remove. 1998-04-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * posix/wordexp-test.c (main): Initialize ifs element of ts for ~root test. 1998-04-17 07:53 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/s_pread64.S: Fix a typo. 1998-04-17 11:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * libio/oldfileops.c (_IO_old_file_seekoff): Define temporary st variable using _G_stat64. * libio/fileops.c: Remove macro definition of fstat, it is in the global header. Reported by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de>. 1998-04-17 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * sysdeps/arm/strlen.S: New file, based on code by Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>. 1998-04-16 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com> * inet/netinet/in.h (IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_NODELOCAL): New macro, required by IPv6 Basic API. (IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_LINKLOCAL): Likewise. (IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_SITELOCAL): Likewise. (IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_ORGLOCAL): Likewise. (IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_GLOBAL): Likewise.
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@@ -89,25 +89,19 @@ required. For Linux, get binutils-2.8.1.0.23 or later. Other systems
may have native linker support, but it's moot right now, because glibc
has not been ported to them.
-??powerpc What tools do I need for powerpc?
+??powerpc Which compiler should I use for powerpc?
-{GK} For a successful installation you definitely need the most recent
-tools. You can safely assume that anything earlier than binutils
-2.8.1.0.17 and egcs-1.0 will have problems. We'd advise at the moment
-binutils 2.8.1.0.18 and egcs-1.0.1.
+{GK} You want to use egcs 1.0.1 or later (together with the right
+versions of all the other tools, of course).
-In fact, egcs 1.0.1 currently has two serious bugs that prevent a
-clean make; one relates to switch statement folding, for which there
-is a temporary patch at
+In fact, egcs 1.0.1 has a serious bug that prevents a clean make,
+relating to switch statement folding. It also causes the resulting
+shared libraries to use more memory than they should. There is a
+patch at:
-<http://discus.anu.edu.au/~geoffk/egcs-1.0-geoffk.diff.gz>
+<http://discus.anu.edu.au/~geoffk/egcs-1.0.1-geoffk.diff>
-and the other relates to 'forbidden register spilled', for which the
-workaround is to put
-
-CFLAGS-condvar.c += -fno-inline
-
-in configparms. Later versions of egcs may fix these problems.
+Later versions of egcs may fix these problems.
?? Do I need some more things to compile GNU C Library?
@@ -133,7 +127,8 @@ in configparms. Later versions of egcs may fix these problems.
* When compiling for Linux, the header files of the Linux kernel must
be available to the compiler as <linux/*.h> and <asm/*.h>.
-* lots of disk space (~170MB for i?86-linux; more for RISC platforms).
+* lots of disk space (~170MB for i?86-linux; more for RISC platforms,
+ as much as 400MB).
* plenty of time. Compiling just the shared and static libraries for
i?86-linux takes approximately 1h on an i586@133, or 2.5h on
@@ -174,9 +169,6 @@ symbols:
* symbols starting with _dl_* come from the dynamic linker
-* symbols resolved by using libgcc.a
- (__udivdi3, __umoddi3, or similar)
-
* weak symbols, which need not be resolved at all (fabs for example)
Generally, you should make sure you find a real program which produces
@@ -981,7 +973,7 @@ Answers were given by:
{MK} Mark Kettenis, <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>
{ZW} Zack Weinberg, <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
{TK} Thorsten Kukuk, <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
-{GK} Geoffrey Keating, <Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au>
+{GK} Geoffrey Keating, <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>
{HJ} H.J. Lu, <hjl@gnu.org>
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