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@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ The systems glibc is known to work on as of this release, and most
probably in the future, are:
*-*-gnu GNU Hurd
- i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on Intel
- m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on Motorola 680x0
- alpha-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on DEC Alpha
+ i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel
+ m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0
+ alpha-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha
powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems
- sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on SPARC
- sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on UltraSPARC
+ sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC
+ sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC
Ports to other Linux platforms are in development, and may in fact
work already, but no one has sent us success reports for them.
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ has not been ported to them.
You should not need these tools unless you change the source files.
+* Some scripts need perl5 - but at the moment those scripts are not
+ vital for building and installing GNU libc (some data files will not
+ be created).
+
* When compiling for Linux, the header files of the Linux kernel must
be available to the compiler as <linux/*.h> and <asm/*.h>.
@@ -117,9 +121,10 @@ has not been ported to them.
very slow.
James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk> reports a compile time of
- 45h34m for a full build (shared, static, and profiled) on
- Atari Falcon (Motorola 68030 @ 16 Mhz, 14 Mb memory) and 22h48m
- on Atari TT030 (Motorola 68030 @ 32 Mhz, 34 Mb memory)
+ 45h34m for a full build (shared, static, and profiled) on Atari
+ Falcon (Motorola 68030 @ 16 Mhz, 14 Mb memory) and Jan Barte
+ <yann@plato.uni-paderborn.de> reports 22h48m on Atari TT030
+ (Motorola 68030 @ 32 Mhz, 34 Mb memory)
If you have some more measurements let me know.
@@ -624,7 +629,7 @@ release is for. It's better to have a cut now than having no means to
support the new techniques later.
{MK} There is however a (partial) solution for this problem. Please
-take a look at the file `README.utmpd'.
+take a look at the file `login/README.utmpd'.
?? Where are the DST_* constants found in <sys/time.h> on many
systems?
@@ -668,13 +673,13 @@ results because of type conflicts.
still complains about redeclarations of types in the kernel
headers.
-{UD} The kernel headers before Linux 2.1.61 don't work correctly with
-glibc. Compiling C programs is possible in most cases but C++
-programs have (due to the change of the name lookups for `struct's)
-problems. One prominent example is `struct fd_set'.
+{UD} The kernel headers before Linux 2.1.61 and 2.0.32 don't work
+correctly with glibc. Compiling C programs is possible in most cases
+but C++ programs have (due to the change of the name lookups for
+`struct's) problems. One prominent example is `struct fd_set'.
-There might be some problems left but 2.1.61 fixes most of the known
-ones. See the BUGS file for other known problems.
+There might be some problems left but 2.1.61/2.0.32 fix most of the
+known ones. See the BUGS file for other known problems.
??signal Why don't signals interrupt system calls anymore?
@@ -767,8 +772,8 @@ point where the headers are stable. There are still lots of
incompatible changes made and the libc headers have to follow.
Also, make sure you have a suitably recent kernel. As of the 970401
-snapshot, according to Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, the
-required kernel version is 2.1.30.
+snapshot, according to Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>, the
+required kernel version is at least 2.1.30.
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