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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>2010-05-05 10:14:51 +0200
committerAndreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>2010-05-05 10:24:31 +0200
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@@ -298,16 +298,16 @@ build the GNU C library:
* GCC 3.4 or newer, GCC 4.1 recommended
- The GNU C library can only be compiled with the GNU C compiler
- family. For the 2.3 releases, GCC 3.2 or higher is required; GCC
- 3.4 is the compiler we advise to use for 2.3 versions. For the
- 2.4 release, GCC 3.4 or higher is required; as of this writing,
- GCC 4.1 is the compiler we advise to use for current versions. On
- certain machines including `powerpc64', compilers prior to GCC 4.0
- have bugs that prevent them compiling the C library code in the
- 2.4 release. On other machines, GCC 4.1 is required to build the C
- library with support for the correct `long double' type format;
- these include `powerpc' (32 bit), `s390' and `s390x'.
+ For the 2.4 release or later, GCC 3.4 or higher is required; as of
+ this writing, GCC 4.4 is the compiler we advise to use for current
+ versions. On certain machines including `powerpc64', compilers
+ prior to GCC 4.0 have bugs that prevent them compiling the C
+ library code in the 2.4 release. On other machines, GCC 4.1 is
+ required to build the C library with support for the correct `long
+ double' type format; these include `powerpc' (32 bit), `s390' and
+ `s390x'. For other architectures special compiler-provided
+ headers are needed (like `cpuid.h' on x86) which only come with
+ later compiler versions.
You can use whatever compiler you like to compile programs that
use GNU libc, but be aware that both GCC 2.7 and 2.8 have bugs in