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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-11-09 22:13:45 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-11-09 22:13:45 +0000
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Support --with-pkgversion and --with-bugurl.
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@@ -148,6 +148,19 @@ will be used, and CFLAGS sets optimization options for the compiler.
If you specify just `--build', `configure' will get confused.
+`--with-pkgversion=VERSION'
+ Specify a description, possibly including a build number or build
+ date, of the binaries being built, to be included in `--version'
+ output from programs installed with the GNU C Library. For
+ example, `--with-pkgversion='FooBar GNU/Linux glibc build 123''.
+ The default value is `GNU libc'.
+
+`--with-bugurl=URL'
+ Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a
+ bug, to be included in `--help' output from programs installed with
+ the GNU C Library. The default value refers to the main
+ bug-reporting information for the GNU C Library.
+
To build the library and related programs, type `make'. This will
produce a lot of output, some of which may look like errors from `make'
but isn't. Look for error messages from `make' containing `***'.
@@ -404,10 +417,10 @@ remain unfixed for all eternity, if not longer.
It is a good idea to verify that the problem has not already been
reported. Bugs are documented in two places: The file `BUGS' describes
-a number of well known bugs and the bug tracking system has a WWW
-interface at `http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/'. The WWW interface
-gives you access to open and closed reports. A closed report normally
-includes a patch or a hint on solving the problem.
+a number of well known bugs and the central GNU C Library bug tracking
+system has a WWW interface at `http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/'. The
+WWW interface gives you access to open and closed reports. A closed
+report normally includes a patch or a hint on solving the problem.
To report a bug, first you must find it. With any luck, this will
be the hard part. Once you've found a bug, make sure it's really a
@@ -428,7 +441,7 @@ library, you really only need to narrow it down to one library function
call, if possible. This should not be too difficult.
The final step when you have a simple test case is to report the bug.
-Do this using the WWW interface to the bug database.
+Do this at `http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html'.
If you are not sure how a function should behave, and this manual
doesn't tell you, that's a bug in the manual. Report that too! If the