Update.

1998-02-10 23:57  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>

	* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
	* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.

1998-02-06 17:22  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
	NDIGIT <= 0.

1998-02-10 16:48  Philip Blundell  <pb@nexus.co.uk>

	* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
	if the programs weren't built.

1998-02-09 10:12  Philip Blundell  <pb@nexus.co.uk>

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
	FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.

1998-02-5 17:20  Philip Blundell  <pb@nexus.co.uk>

	* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
	_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.

	* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.

	* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
	exist.
	
	* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.

1998-02-04 10:11  Philip Blundell  <pb@nexus.co.uk>

	* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
	that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
	terminating NUL as a character.
	
1998-02-10 16:57  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>

	* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
	add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
	Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.

1998-01-04  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
	(postclean): New variable.
	(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
	(realclean distclean): Likewise.  Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
	(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
	* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
	avoid-generated is set.
	(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
	($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
	set.
	* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
	avoid-generated is set.
	(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
	(generated): Add versioned libraries.
	(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
	* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
	* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
	* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
	$(rtld-installed-name).
	(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
	* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
	* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
	* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
	* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
	syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
	(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
	(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
	* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
	(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
	(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.

1998-01-04  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
	variables.

1998-02-10 16:57  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>

	* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
	
1998-02-09 08:10  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
	From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
	* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.

1998-02-08  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
	Suggested by debian/sparc porters.

1998-02-07  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
	for ecvt and fcvt.

1998-02-10 16:32  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
	__fxstat instead of stat and fstat.  Use namespace clean __stpcpy.

	* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
	defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.

1998-02-02 20:51  Zack Weinberg  <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
	to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
	
1998-02-02 08:47  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
	directory first and ignore install error.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
	128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.

1998-02-01  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
	syscalls.list's.

1998-02-01  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
	getresuid and getresgid.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
	s_getres[ug]id.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.

1998-02-02 08:11  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.

1998-02-01 16:01  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.

	* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
	* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.

1998-02-03  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
	__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.

1998-02-10 19:18  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
	Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
	
1998-02-04 11:58  Richard Henderson  <rth@twiddle.rth.home>

	* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
	* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.

	* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
	* elf/rtld.map: New file.  Needed to define the GLIBC_2.* 
	version symbols.
	* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
	Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
	* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
	the weak symbol list.
	
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
	Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.

1998-02-04 16:41  Zack Weinberg  <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>

	* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.

1998-02-10 03:00  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>

	* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
	Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.

1998-02-05  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.

1998-02-03  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.

	* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
	strerror_r.  Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.

1998-01-29  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description 
	of inet_network.

1998-02-07  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
	(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.

1998-02-06  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
	elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
	(elf/ldso_install): New target.

	* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.

1998-02-07  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
	of 1998-01-06.

1998-02-07  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
	constant expressions.

1998-02-07  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
	for __nss_configure_lookup.
	(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.

1998-02-07  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.

1998-02-09  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
	avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in
index bc7d3de..70121cfc 100644
--- a/FAQ.in
+++ b/FAQ.in
@@ -223,20 +223,19 @@ some problems of this kind.  The setting of CFLAGS is checked at the
 very beginning and if it is not usable `configure' will bark.
 
 ??	Why do I get messages about missing thread functions when I use
-	the librt?  I don't even use threads.
+	librt?  I don't even use threads.
 
-{UD} In this case you probably mixed up your installation of the libc.
-The librt internally uses threads and it has implicit references to
-the thread library.  Normally these references are satisfied
-automatically but if the thread library belonging to the librt is not
-in the expected place one has to specify this place.  When using GNU
-ld it works like this:
+{UD} In this case you probably mixed up your installation.  librt uses
+threads internally and has implicit references to the thread library.
+Normally these references are satisfied automatically but if the
+thread library is not in the expected place you must tell the linker
+where it is.  When using GNU ld it works like this:
 
 	gcc -o foo foo.c -Wl,-rpath-link=/some/other/dir -lrt
 
-The `/some/other/dir' should contain the matching thread library and
-`ld' will use the given path to find the implicitly referenced library
-while not disturbing any other link path order.
+The `/some/other/dir' should contain the thread library.  `ld' will
+use the given path to find the implicitly referenced library while not
+disturbing any other link path.
 
 ??	What's the problem with configure --enable-omitfp?
 
@@ -509,6 +508,19 @@ catalog files to the XPG4 form:
 }
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+??	Programs using libc have their messages translated, but other
+	behavior is not localized (e.g. collating order); why?
+
+{ZW} Translated messages are automatically installed, but the locale
+database that controls other behaviors is not.  You need to run
+localedef to install this database, after you have run `make
+install'.  For example, to set up the French Canadian locale, simply
+issue the command
+
+    localedef -i fr_CA -f ISO-8859-1 fr_CA
+
+Please see localedata/README in the source tree for further details.
+
 ??	I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS
 	works great.  But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.
 
@@ -520,13 +532,13 @@ client (the NIS_COLD_START file is byte order independent) or generate
 it with nisinit from the nis-tools package (available at
 http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html).
 
-??	I have killed ypbind to stop using NIS, but glibc will
-        continue using NIS.
+??	I have killed ypbind to stop using NIS, but glibc
+        continues using NIS.
 
 {TK} For faster NIS lookups, glibc uses the /var/yp/binding/ files
 from ypbind.  ypbind 3.3 and older versions don't always remove these
-files, so glibc will use them furthermore.  Other BSD versions seem to
-work correct.  Until ypbind 3.4 is released, you can find a patch at
+files, so glibc will continue to use them.  Other BSD versions seem to
+work correctly.  Until ypbind 3.4 is released, you can find a patch at
 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/ypbind-3.3-glibc2.diff.
 
 ??	After installing glibc name resolving doesn't work properly.
@@ -586,6 +598,15 @@ might be possible that a symbol changed size when that should not have
 happened.  So in case of doubt report such a warning message as a
 problem.
 
+??	What do I need for C++ development?
+
+{HJ,AJ} You need either egcs 1.0.1 or gcc-2.8.0 with libstdc++
+2.8.0. libg++ 2.7.2 (and the Linux Versions 2.7.2.x) doesn't work very 
+well with the GNU C library due to vtable thunks.
+If you're upgrading from glibc 2.0.x to 2.1 you have to recompile
+libstc++ the library compiled for 2.0 is not compatible due to the new 
+Large File Support (LFS) in version 2.1.
+
 ? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them
 
 ??	I expect GNU libc to be 100% source code compatible with
@@ -876,6 +897,7 @@ Answers were given by:
 {ZW} Zack Weinberg, <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
 {TK} Thorsten Kukuk, <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
 {GK} Geoffrey Keating, <Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au>
+{HJ} H.J. Lu, <hjl@gnu.org>
 
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