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authorAndreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>2004-02-29 19:50:54 +0000
committerAndreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>2004-02-29 19:50:54 +0000
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Update.
2004-02-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Autoconf 2.53 is required. (Supported Configurations): Add x86_64-*-linux. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--INSTALL28
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c8a9c3824..a2486301ae 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-02-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
+
+ * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Autoconf 2.53 is required.
+ (Supported Configurations): Add x86_64-*-linux.
+ * INSTALL: Regenerated.
+
2004-02-28 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
* sysdeps/i386/i686/memcmp.S: Move table to .rodata. Patch by HJ Lu.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e81af07f09..bcf57b1bd4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ build the GNU C library:
* GNU `binutils' 2.13 or later
You must use GNU `binutils' (as and ld) to build the GNU C library.
- No other assembler and linker has the necessary functionality in
- the moment.
+ No other assembler or linker has the necessary functionality at the
+ moment.
* GNU `texinfo' 3.12f
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ build the GNU C library:
If you change any of the `configure.in' files you will also need
- * GNU `autoconf' 2.12 or higher
+ * GNU `autoconf' 2.53 or higher
and if you change any of the message translation files you will need
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ following patterns:
s390x-*-linux
sparc-*-linux
sparc64-*-linux
+ x86_64-*-linux
Former releases of this library (version 2.1 and/or 2.0) used to run
on the following configurations:
@@ -448,11 +449,22 @@ kernel you can get your hands on.
An alternate tactic is to unpack the 2.2 kernel and run `make
config' as above; then, rename or delete `/usr/include', create a new
-`/usr/include', and make the usual symbolic links of
-`/usr/include/linux' and `/usr/include/asm' into the 2.2 kernel
-sources. You can then configure glibc with no special options. This
-tactic is recommended if you are upgrading from libc5, since you need
-to get rid of the old header files anyway.
+`/usr/include', and make symbolic links of `/usr/include/linux' and
+`/usr/include/asm' into the kernel sources. You can then configure
+glibc with no special options. This tactic is recommended if you are
+upgrading from libc5, since you need to get rid of the old header files
+anyway.
+
+ After installing GNU libc, you may need to remove or rename
+`/usr/include/linux' and `/usr/include/asm', and replace them with
+copies of `include/linux' and `include/asm-$ARCHITECTURE' taken from
+the Linux source package which supplied kernel headers for building the
+library. ARCHITECTURE will be the machine architecture for which the
+library was built, such as `i386' or `alpha'. You do not need to do
+this if you did not specify an alternate kernel header source using
+`--with-headers'. The intent here is that these directories should be
+copies of, *not* symlinks to, the kernel headers used to build the
+library.
Note that `/usr/include/net' and `/usr/include/scsi' should *not* be
symlinks into the kernel sources. GNU libc provides its own versions