Tue Jul 16 00:31:31 1996 Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu>cvs/libc-960716

	* sysdeps/alpha/dl-machine.h: Mirror Roland's changes to
	i386/dl-machine.h of 960713.

	* sysdeps/generic/dl-sysdep.c:  Include <sys/mman.h>.
	(_dl_sysdep_read_whole_file): Fix result variable declaration.

Tue Jul 16 00:53:57 1996  Roland McGrath  <roland@delasyd.gnu.ai.mit.edu>

	* sysdeps/mach/hurd/uname.c: Call __gethostname to fill in the
	`nodename' member.

Mon Jul 15 17:23:53 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* stdio-common/vfprintf.c (vfprintf): Call parse_one_spec
	with pointer to local variable instead of NULL.

1996-07-15  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>

	* time/strftime.c (strftime): Don't pass empty macro argument to `add'.

Sat Jul 13 09:53:39 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Remove names
	that are already added by other means.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Add more EXTRA's in the
	caller column to get those syscalls added automagically.

	* elf/rtld.c (dl_main) [ELF_MACHINE_DEBUG_SETUP]: Use this macro
	instead of setting the DT_DEBUG pointer.

	* csu/initfini.c (_init, _fini): Generate .end directives after
	standalone prologues and filter them out from epilogues.

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 5cb8b72..84dd984 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ please let me know.
 
 [Q12]	``The `gencat' utility cannot process the input which are
 	  successfully used on my Linux libc based system.  Why?''
+
+[Q13]	``How do I configure GNU libc so that the essential libraries
+	  like libc.so go into /lib and the other into /usr/lib?''
 
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 [Q1]	``What systems does the GNU C Library run on?''
@@ -287,7 +290,6 @@ means to support the new techniques later.
 
 
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-
 [Q11]	``Where are the DST_* constants found in <sys/time.h> on many
 	  systems?''
 
@@ -300,7 +302,6 @@ code for POSIX TZ environment variable handling.
 
 
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-
 [Q12]	``The `gencat' utility cannot process the input which are
 	  successfully used on my Linux libc based system.  Why?''
 
@@ -338,6 +339,36 @@ catalog files to the XPG4 form:
 
 
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+[Q13]	``How do I configure GNU libc so that the essential libraries
+	  like libc.so go into /lib and the other into /usr/lib?''
+
+[A13] {UD} Like all other GNU packages GNU libc is configured to use a
+base directory and install all files relative to this.  If you intend
+to really use GNU libc on your system this base directory is /usr.  I.e.,
+you run
+	configure --prefix=/usr <other_options>
+
+Some systems like Linux have a filesystem standard which makes a
+difference between essential libraries and others.  Essential
+libraries are placed in /lib because this directory is required to be
+located on the same disk partition as /.  The /usr subtree might be
+found on another partition/disk.
+
+To install the essential libraries which come with GNU libc in /lib
+one must explicitly tell this.  Autoconf has no option for this so you
+have to use the file where all user supplied additional information
+should go in: `configparms' (see the `INSTALL' file).  For Linux the
+`configparms' file should contain:
+
+slibdir=/lib
+sysconfdir=/etc
+
+The first line specifies the directory for the essential libraries,
+the second line the directory for file which are by tradition placed
+in a directory named /etc.
+
+
+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
 
 Answers were given by:
 {UD} Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@cygnus.com>