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2023-03-29Remove --enable-tunables configure optionAdhemerval Zanella Netto1-19/+0
And make always supported. The configure option was added on glibc 2.25 and some features require it (such as hwcap mask, huge pages support, and lock elisition tuning). It also simplifies the build permutations. Changes from v1: * Remove glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort changes, it is orthogonal and needs more discussion. * Cleanup more code. Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2023-03-29Remove --disable-experimental-malloc optionAdhemerval Zanella1-6/+0
It is the default since 2.26 and it has bitrotten over the years, By using it multiple malloc tests fails: FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2 FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb1 FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb2 FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-mcheck FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb1 FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb2 FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2 FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb1 FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb2 Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
2023-03-27Remove --with-default-link configure optionAdhemerval Zanella Netto1-6/+0
Now that there is no need to use a special linker script to hardening internal data structures, remove the --with-default-link configure option and associated definitions. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2023-01-31Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL.Carlos O'Donell1-9/+9
2022-08-25Revert "Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startup"Florian Weimer1-10/+0
This reverts commit 6f85dbf102ad7982409ba0fe96886caeb6389fef. Once this change hits the release branches, it will require relinking of all statically linked applications before static dlopen works again, for the majority of updates on release branches: The NEWS file is regularly updated with bug references, so the __libc_early_init suffix changes, and static dlopen cannot find the function anymore. While this ABI check is still technically correct (we do require rebuilding & relinking after glibc updates to keep static dlopen working), it is too drastic for stable release branches. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2022-08-24Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startupFlorian Weimer1-0/+10
The files NEWS, include/link.h, and sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h contribute to the version fingerprint used for detection. The fingerprint can be further refined using the --with-extra-version-id configure argument. _dl_call_libc_early_init is replaced with _dl_lookup_libc_early_init. The new function is used store a pointer to libc.so's __libc_early_init function in the libc_map_early_init member of the ld.so namespace structure. This function pointer can then be called directly, so the separate invocation function is no longer needed. The versioned symbol lookup needs the symbol versioning data structures, so the initialization of libc_map and libc_map_early_init is now done from _dl_check_map_versions, after this information becomes available. (_dl_map_object_from_fd does not set this up in time, so the initialization code had to be moved from there.) This means that the separate initialization code can be removed from dl_main because _dl_check_map_versions covers all maps, including the initial executable loaded by the kernel. The lookup still happens before relocation and the invocation of IFUNC resolvers, so IFUNC resolvers are protected from ABI mismatch. The __libc_early_init function pointer is not protected because so little code runs between the pointer write and the invocation (only dynamic linker code and IFUNC resolvers). Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-07-29Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL.Carlos O'Donell1-7/+7
2022-04-26INSTALL: Rephrase -with-default-link documentationFlorian Weimer1-4/+4
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-04-22Default to --with-default-link=no (bug 25812)Florian Weimer1-0/+6
This is necessary to place the libio vtables into the RELRO segment. New tests elf/tst-relro-ldso and elf/tst-relro-libc are added to verify that this is what actually happens. The new tests fail on ia64 due to lack of (default) RELRO support inbutils, so they are XFAILed there.
2022-02-03Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL.Carlos O'Donell1-9/+12
2022-01-14Add --with-rtld-early-cflags configure optionFlorian Weimer1-0/+8
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2021-12-13Replace --enable-static-pie with --disable-default-pieSiddhesh Poyarekar1-10/+8
Build glibc programs and tests as PIE by default and enable static-pie automatically if the architecture and toolchain supports it. Also add a new configuration option --disable-default-pie to prevent building programs as PIE. Only the following architectures now have PIE disabled by default because they do not work at the moment. hppa, ia64, alpha and csky don't work because the linker is unable to handle a pcrel relocation generated from PIE objects. The microblaze compiler is currently failing with an ICE. GNU hurd tries to enable static-pie, which does not work and hence fails. All these targets have default PIE disabled at the moment and I have left it to the target maintainers to enable PIE on their targets. build-many-glibcs runs clean for all targets. I also tested x86_64 on Fedora and Ubuntu, to verify that the default build as well as --disable-default-pie work as expected with both system toolchains. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-12-04Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to specify TIMEOUTFACTORH.J. Lu1-0/+5
On Ice Lake and Tiger Lake laptops, some test programs timeout when there are 3 "make check -j8" runs in parallel. Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to specify an integer to scale the timeout of test programs, which can be overriden by TIMEOUTFACTOR environment variable. Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2021-08-01Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL.Carlos O'Donell1-4/+4
2021-06-10Add build option to disable usage of scv on powerpcMatheus Castanho1-0/+4
Commit 68ab82f56690ada86ac1e0c46bad06ba189a10ef added support for the scv syscall ABI on powerpc. Since then systems that have kernel and processor support started using scv. However adding the proper support for a new syscall ABI requires changes to several other projects (e.g. qemu, valgrind, strace, kernel), which are gradually receiving support. Meanwhile, having a way to disable scv on glibc at build time can be useful for distros that may encounter conflicts with projects that still do not support the scv ABI, buying time until proper support is added. This commit adds a --disable-scv option that disables scv support and uses sc for all syscalls, like before commit 68ab82f56690ada86ac1e0c46bad06ba189a10ef. Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
2021-05-26aarch64: Added Vector Length Set test helper scriptNaohiro Tamura1-0/+4
This patch is a test helper script to change Vector Length for child process. This script can be used as test-wrapper for 'make check'. Usage examples: ~/build$ make check subdirs=string \ test-wrapper='~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16' ~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16 \ make test t=string/test-memcpy ~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 32 \ ./debugglibc.sh string/test-memmove ~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 64 \ ./testrun.sh string/test-memset
2021-03-08tst: Extend cross-test-ssh.sh to specify if target date can be alteredLukasz Majewski1-0/+15
This code adds new flag - '--allow-time-setting' to cross-test-ssh.sh script to indicate if it is allowed to alter the date on the system on which tests are executed. This change is supposed to be used with test systems, which use virtual machines for testing. The GLIBC_TEST_ALLOW_TIME_SETTING env variable is exported to the remote environment on which the eligible test is run and brings no functional change when it is not. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-01-25Update INSTALL with package versions that are known to workTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho1-13/+13
Most packages have been tested with their latest releases, except for Python, whose latest version is 3.9.1. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2020-12-21config: Allow memory tagging to be enabled when configuring glibcRichard Earnshaw1-0/+14
This patch adds the configuration machinery to allow memory tagging to be enabled from the command line via the configure option --enable-memory-tagging. The current default is off, though in time we may change that once the API is more stable.
2020-12-17s390x: Require GCC 7.1 or later to build glibc.Stefan Liebler1-0/+3
GCC 6.5 fails to correctly build ldconfig with recent ld.so.cache commits, e.g.: 785969a047ad2f23f758901c6816422573544453 elf: Implement a string table for ldconfig, with tail merging If glibc is build with gcc 6.5.0: __builtin_add_overflow is used in <glibc>/elf/stringtable.c:stringtable_finalize() which leads to ldconfig failing with "String table is too large". This is also recognizable in following tests: FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-cache FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-prepend-cache FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-X FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-bad-aux-cache FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-ld_so_conf-update FAIL: elf/tst-stringtable See gcc "Bug 98269 - gcc 6.5.0 __builtin_add_overflow() with small uint32_t values incorrectly detects overflow" (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98269)
2020-10-07Linux: Require properly configured /dev/pts for PTYsFlorian Weimer1-8/+3
Current systems do not have BSD terminals, so the fallback code in posix_openpt/getpt does not do anything. Also remove the file system check for /dev/pts. Current systems always have a devpts file system mounted there if /dev/ptmx exists. grantpt is now essentially a no-op. It only verifies that the argument is a ptmx-descriptor. Therefore, this change indirectly addresses bug 24941. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2020-07-22Regenerate INSTALL for ARC port updates.Carlos O'Donell1-0/+5
2020-07-08Remove --enable-obsolete-nsl configure flagPetr Vorel1-9/+0
this means that *always* libnsl is only built as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules libnss_nis and libnss_nisplus are not built at all, libnsl's headers aren't installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not affect libnss_compat which does not depended on libnsl since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS. libnsl code depends on Sun RPC, e.g. on --enable-obsolete-rpc (installed libnsl headers use installed Sun RPC headers), which will be removed in the following commit.
2020-05-18x86: Add --enable-cet=permissiveH.J. Lu1-11/+15
When CET is enabled, it is an error to dlopen a non CET enabled shared library in CET enabled application. It may be desirable to make CET permissive, that is disable CET when dlopening a non CET enabled shared library. With the new --enable-cet=permissive configure option, CET is disabled when dlopening a non CET enabled shared library. Add DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL to config.h.in: /* The default value of x86 CET control. */ #define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_elf_property which enables CET features based on ELF property note. --enable-cet=permissive it to /* The default value of x86 CET control. */ #define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_permissive which enables CET features permissively. Update tst-cet-legacy-5a, tst-cet-legacy-5b, tst-cet-legacy-6a and tst-cet-legacy-6b to check --enable-cet and --enable-cet=permissive.
2020-04-30powerpc64le: blacklist broken GCC compilers (e.g GCC 7.5.0)Paul E. Murphy1-3/+5
GCC 7.5.0 (PR94200) will refuse to compile if both -mabi=% and -mlong-double-128 are passed on the command line. Surprisingly, it will work happily if the latter is not. For the sake of maintaining status quo, test for and blacklist such compilers. Tested with a GCC 8.3.1 and GCC 7.5.0 compiler for ppc64le. Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30powerpc64le: bump binutils version requirement to >= 2.26Paul E. Murphy1-0/+4
This is a small step up from 2.25 which brings in support for rewriting the .gnu.attributes section of libc/libm.so. Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30powerpc64le: raise GCC requirement to 7.4 for long double transitionPaul E. Murphy1-0/+6
Add compiler feature tests to ensure we can build ieee128 long double. These test for -mabi=ieeelongdouble, -mno-gnu-attribute, and -Wno-psabi. Likewise, verify some compiler bugs have been addressed. These aren't helpful for building glibc, but may cause test failures when testing the new long double. See notes below from Raji. On powerpc64le, some older compiler versions give error for the function signbit() for 128-bit floating point types. This is fixed by PR83862 in gcc 8.0 and backported to gcc6 and gcc7. This patch adds a test to check compiler version to avoid compiler errors during make check. Likewise, test for -mno-gnu-attribute support which was On powerpc64le, a few files are built on IEEE long double mode (-mabi=ieeelongdouble), whereas most are built on IBM long double mode (-mabi=ibmlongdouble, the default for -mlong-double-128). Since binutils 2.31, linking object files with different long double modes causes errors similar to: ld: libc_pic.a(s_isinfl.os) uses IBM long double, libc_pic.a(ieee128-qefgcvt.os) uses IEEE long double. collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [../Makerules:649: libc_pic.os] Error 1 The warnings are fair and correct, but in order for glibc to have support for both long double modes on powerpc64le, they have to be ignored. This can be accomplished with the use of -mno-gnu-attribute option when building the few files that require IEEE long double mode. However, -mno-gnu-attribute is not available in GCC 6, the minimum version required to build glibc, so this patch adds a test for this feature in powerpc64le builds, and fails early if it's not available. Co-Authored-By: Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Co-Authored-By: Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gabrielftg@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-02-01Update newest tested versions of dependencies in install.texiSiddhesh Poyarekar1-5/+5
Updated versions of gcc, binutils, awk, bison and perl.
2019-09-07Prefer https to http for gnu.org and fsf.org URLsPaul Eggert1-1/+1
Also, change sources.redhat.com to sourceware.org. This patch was automatically generated by running the following shell script, which uses GNU sed, and which avoids modifying files imported from upstream: sed -ri ' s,(http|ftp)(://(.*\.)?(gnu|fsf|sourceware)\.org($|[^.]|\.[^a-z])),https\2,g s,(http|ftp)(://(.*\.)?)sources\.redhat\.com($|[^.]|\.[^a-z]),https\2sourceware.org\4,g ' \ $(find $(git ls-files) -prune -type f \ ! -name '*.po' \ ! -name 'ChangeLog*' \ ! -path COPYING ! -path COPYING.LIB \ ! -path manual/fdl-1.3.texi ! -path manual/lgpl-2.1.texi \ ! -path manual/texinfo.tex ! -path scripts/config.guess \ ! -path scripts/config.sub ! -path scripts/install-sh \ ! -path scripts/mkinstalldirs ! -path scripts/move-if-change \ ! -path INSTALL ! -path locale/programs/charmap-kw.h \ ! -path po/libc.pot ! -path sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c \ ! '(' -name configure \ -execdir test -f configure.ac -o -f configure.in ';' ')' \ ! '(' -name preconfigure \ -execdir test -f preconfigure.ac ';' ')' \ -print) and then by running 'make dist-prepare' to regenerate files built from the altered files, and then executing the following to cleanup: chmod a+x sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/configure # Omit irrelevant whitespace and comment-only changes, # perhaps from a slightly-different Autoconf version. git checkout -f \ sysdeps/csky/configure \ sysdeps/hppa/configure \ sysdeps/riscv/configure \ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/csky/configure # Omit changes that caused a pre-commit check to fail like this: # remote: *** error: sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/ppc-mcount.S: trailing lines git checkout -f \ sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/ppc-mcount.S \ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/syscall.S # Omit change that caused a pre-commit check to fail like this: # remote: *** error: sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/multiarch/memcpy-ultra3.S: last line does not end in newline git checkout -f sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/multiarch/memcpy-ultra3.S
2019-08-01Update install and NEWS for 2.30 release.Carlos O'Donell1-5/+5
2019-04-25Extend BIND_NOW to installed programs with --enable-bind-nowFlorian Weimer1-4/+4
Commit 2d6ab5df3b675e96ee587ae6a8c2ce004c6b1ba9 ("Document and fix --enable-bind-now [BZ #21015]") extended BIND_NOW to all installed shared objects. This change also covers installed programs. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2019-02-01Require GCC 6.2 or later to build glibc.Joseph Myers1-7/+2
As discussed during development for glibc 2.29, when we increased the required minimum GCC version for building glibc to GCC 5, working purely based on the times at which such requirements have been increased in the past it would be appropriate for glibc 2.30 to require GCC 6 (matching GCC 4.9 having been required for glibc 2.26). Naming 6.2 specifically as the minimum version then means a separate version requirement no longer needs to be specified for powerpc64le. Thus, this patch increases the minimum to 6.2, removing the documentation of the separate requirement for powerpc64le. It does not remove the powerpc64le configure test, or any __GNUC_PREREQ that could be removed as not being in installed headers or files shared with gnulib; I think such cleanups are best done separately. Tested for x86_64. * configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 6.2 or later. * configure: Regenerated. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC version. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2019-01-31Prepare for 2.29 releaseSiddhesh Poyarekar1-7/+7
* NEWS: Add the list of bugs fixed in 2.29. * manual/contrib.texi: Update contributors list with some more names. * manual/install.texi: Update latest versions of packages tested. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-12-21Require GCC 5 or later to build glibc (bug 23993).Joseph Myers1-2/+2
We know that building glibc with GCC 4.9 is broken on various platforms (bug 23993). As it's more than a year since we last increased the minimum GCC version to build glibc, this patch changes the requirement to be GCC 5 or later (indeed, based on 4.9 having been required for building 2.26, it would be consistent in terms of timing to require GCC 6 or later from the 2.30 release onwards). It deliberately just updates the configure test and corresponding documentation, leaving removal of no-longer-needed __GNUC_PREREQ tests for a separate patch. In the NEWS entry, the requirement for a newer GCC version for powerpc64le is reiterated (as in the entry for the 4.9 requirement in 2.26) to avoid suggesting the version requirement there has gone down. (If that version goes up further as part of support for binary128 long double, of course the wording would change at that time.) Tested for x86_64. [BZ #23993] * configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 5 or later. * configure: Regenerated. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC version. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-12-18locale: Rewrite locale/gen-translit.pl in PythonFlorian Weimer1-4/+3
This commit does not change the generated output file. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2018-10-29Patch to require Python 3.4 or later to build glibc.Joseph Myers1-4/+4
This patch makes Python 3.4 or later a required tool for building glibc, so allowing changes of awk, perl etc. code used in the build and test to Python code without any such changes needing makefile conditionals or to handle older Python versions. This patch makes the configure test for Python check the version and give an error if Python is missing or too old, and removes makefile conditionals that are no longer needed. It does not itself convert any code from another language to Python, and does not remove any compatibility with older Python versions from existing scripts. Tested for x86_64. * configure.ac (PYTHON_PROG): Use AC_CHECK_PROG_VER. Set critic_missing for versions before 3.4. * configure: Regenerated. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document requirement for Python to build glibc. * INSTALL: Regenerated. * Rules [PYTHON]: Make code unconditional. * benchtests/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise. * conform/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise. * manual/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise. * math/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
2018-10-24Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual.Joseph Myers1-2/+3
This patch extends gen-libm-test.py to generate the ulps table for the manual, so meaning there is only a single ulps file parser needed and another Perl script is eliminated. As with the introduction of gen-libm-test.py, this is designed to generate exactly the same libm-err.texi as libm-err-tab.pl did. (gen-libm-test.py is still shorter in lines than the old gen-libm-test.pl even after this patch.) Note that this introduces a Python dependency for building the manual, which is thus noted in install.texi and NEWS. Tested building html / info / pdf versions of the manual. * math/gen-libm-test.py: Import os. (ALL_FLOATS_MANUAL): New constant. (ALL_FLOATS_SUFFIX): Likewise. (Ulps.all_functions): New function. (real_all_ulps): Likewise. (generate_err_table_sub): Likewise. (generate_err_table): Likewise. (main): Handle -s and -m options. * manual/libm-err-tab.pl: Remove. * manual/Makefile ($(objpfx)stamp-libm-err): Use gen-libm-test.py instead of libm-err-tab.pl. [$(PERL) != no]: Change condition to [$(if $(PYTHON),$(PERL),no) != no]. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document requirement for Python to build manual. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-09-24Don't build libnsl for new ABIsAndreas Schwab1-1/+4
For architectures and ABIs that are added in version 2.29 or later the option --enable-obsolete-nsl is no longer available, and no libnsl compatibility library is built.
2018-08-17Add --with-nonshared-cflags option to configureFlorian Weimer1-0/+16
2018-08-13Update install.texi documentation of uses of Perl and Python.Joseph Myers1-36/+32
The install.texi documentation of uses of Perl and Python is substantially out of date. The description of Perl is "to test the installation" (which I interpret as referring to test-installation.pl), but it's used for more tests than that, and to build the manual, and to regenerate one file in the source tree. The description of Python is only for pretty-printer tests, but it's used for other tests / benchmarks as well (and for other internal uses such as updating Unicode data, for which we already require Python 3, but I think install.texi only needs to describe uses from the main glibc Makefiles). This patch updates the descriptions of what those tools are used for. The Python information (and information about other tools for testing pretty printers) was awkwardly in the middle of the general description of building and testing glibc, rather than with the rest of information about tools used in glibc build and test; this patch moves the information about those tools into the main list. Tested with regeneration of INSTALL as well as "make info" and "make pdf". * manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Do not list tools used for testing pretty printers here. (Tools for Compilation): List Python, PExpect and GDB here. Update descriptions of uses of Perl and Python. * INSTALL: Regenerate.
2018-08-02Add convenience target 'install-locale-files'.Carlos O'Donell1-6/+26
The convenience install target 'install-locale-files' is created to allow distributions to install all of the SUPPORTED locales as files instead of into the locale-archive. You invoke the new convenience target like this: make localedata/install-locale-files DESTDIR=<prefix>
2018-07-31Update tooling versions verified to work with glibc.Carlos O'Donell1-10/+23
2018-07-19INSTALL: Add a note for Intel CET statusH.J. Lu1-0/+5
* NEWS: Add a note for Intel CET status. * manual/install.texi: Likewise. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-07-18Intel CET: Document --enable-cetH.J. Lu1-0/+11
* NEWS: Mention --enable-cet. * manual/install.texi: Document --enable-cet. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-07-04testrun.sh: Implement --tool=strace, --tool=valgrindFlorian Weimer1-7/+1
$(file …) appears to be the only convenient way to create files with newlines and make substitution variables. This needs make 4.0 (released in 2013), so update the requirement to match. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2018-06-29New configure option --disable-crypt.Zack Weinberg1-0/+11
Some Linux distributions are experimenting with a new, separately maintained and hopefully more agile implementation of the crypt API. To facilitate this, add a configure option which disables glibc's embedded libcrypt. When this option is given, libcrypt.* and crypt.h will not be built nor installed.
2018-02-15Document use of CC and CFLAGS in more detail (bug 20980, bug 21234).Joseph Myers1-5/+14
There are some bug reports from people setting CFLAGS not including a -O option and then being confused when the build fails. This patch addresses this by documenting the proper use of CC and CFLAGS in more detail - saying what options should go where and specifying the requirement to compile with optimization. The previous text incorrectly used @var markup with CC and CFLAGS. The correct markup for environment variables is @env, but it's also the case that passing such variables explicitly on the configure command line is preferred to passing them in the environment, so this patch changes the documentation to describe passing them on the command line (and uses @code). In many cases putting options in the wrong place may in fact work, but I believe what I've specified is the correct rule for which options to put where. [BZ #20980] [BZ #21234] * manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Describe passing CC and CFLAGS on configure command line, not as environment variables. Use @code markup on those variables. Specify what options go in CC and what go in CFLAGS. Note the requirement to compile with optimization. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-01-31Fix typo in the previous commitDmitry V. Levin1-1/+1
The version of GCC was 7.3, not 7.3.1.
2018-01-31Update information about the newest versions of tools used to build glibcDmitry V. Levin1-6/+7
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update the newest versions of gcc, binutils, texinfo, gawk, bison, and sed. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
2017-12-19Document that --enable-static-pie implies PIEH.J. Lu1-1/+3
To build static PIE, all .o files are compiled with -fPIE. Since --enable-static-pie is designed to provide additional security hardening benefits, it also implies that glibc programs and tests are created as dynamic position independent executables (PIE) by default for better security hardening. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> * manual/install.texi: Document that --enable-static-pie implies PIE. * INSTALL: Regenerated.