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authorRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>1996-07-16 06:38:54 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>1996-07-16 06:38:54 +0000
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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.
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@@ -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.
+
+
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Answers were given by:
{UD} Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@cygnus.com>