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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-12-05 22:15:52 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-12-05 22:15:52 +0000
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Ports-related README updates.
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2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/ports/ChangeLog b/ports/ChangeLog
index 5adf0ec..aa9ccc2 100644
--- a/ports/ChangeLog
+++ b/ports/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2012-07-03 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+ * README: Don't refer to ports as a separate repository. Don't
+ refer to scripts/data/.
+
* .gitignore: Remove file.
* Banner: Likewise.
* Makefile: Likewise.
diff --git a/ports/README b/ports/README
index 51e0a30..7c27ccc 100644
--- a/ports/README
+++ b/ports/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is the glibc ports repository, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc).
+This is the glibc ports add-on, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc).
It contains code that is not maintained in the official glibc source tree.
This includes working ports to GNU/Linux on some machine architectures that
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ but may be useful for some future porter to examine. It may also include
some optimized functions tailored for specific CPU implementations of an
architecture, to be selected using --with-cpu.
-The ports repository is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the
-<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in a separate
-ports git repository. See
+The ports add-on is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the
+<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in the ports
+subdirectory of the glibc git repository. See
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html for details on using
-git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports repository, please
-go to http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under
-the glibc "ports" component.
+git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports add-on, please go to
+http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under the
+glibc "ports" component.
An add-on for an individual port can be made from just the sysdeps/
subdirectories containing the port's code. You may want to include a
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure file; this can either be written by hand or
generated by Autoconf from sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure.in, and follow the
rules for glibc add-on configure fragments. No preconfigure file should do
anything on an unrelated configuration, so that disparate ports can be put
-into a single add-on without interfering with each other. Files that
-would go in scripts/data/ for libc go in data/ in ports.
+into a single add-on without interfering with each other.
Like all glibc add-ons, this must be used by specifying the directory in
the --enable-add-ons option when running glibc's configure script.