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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-11-26 12:02:23 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-11-26 12:02:23 +0000
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1998-11-26 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/mips/dl-machine.h (ELF_MACHINE_NO_PLT): New defined macro. (elf_machine_got_rel): Remove scope variable. Use scope from the map. Don't modify _dl_global_scope_end in the end. (__dl_runtime_resolv): Also use scope from the map. * sysdeps/mips/mips64/dl-machine.h: Likewise. * elf/dl-runtime.c: Don't define fixup and profile_fixup if ELF_MACHINE_NO_PLT is defined. * sysdeps/mips/sys/ucontext.h: New file. Patches by kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>. 1998-11-26 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/generic/pselect.c (__pselect): Change interface, set/restore sigmask. * misc/sys/select.h: Change declaration according to Stevens' Unix Network Programming. * include/sys/select.h (__pselect): Likewise. Reported by <bwelling@anomaly.munge.com> [PR libc/872]. * include/fpu_control.h: New file, contains __setfpucw declaration. * sysdeps/generic/fpu_control.h: Remove __setfpucw declaration, it's an internal symbol. * sysdeps/alpha/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/arm/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/i386/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/m68k/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/powerpc/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise.
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@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ in the future, are:
sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC
sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC
arm-*-none ARM standalone systems
+ arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM
arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries
Ports to other Linux platforms are in development, and may in fact work
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ a local mirror first.
You should always try to use the latest official release. Older versions
may not have all the features GNU libc requires. The current releases of
egcs (1.0.3 and 1.1) and GNU CC (2.8.1) should work with the GNU C library
-(for powerpc see question ?powerpc).
+(for powerpc see question ?powerpc; for ARM see question ?arm).
{ZW} You may have problems if you try to mix code compiled with
EGCS and with GCC 2.8.1. See ?exception for details.
@@ -105,6 +106,16 @@ variables. There is a temporary patch at:
Later versions of egcs may fix this problem.
+??arm Which tools should I use for ARM?
+
+{PB} You should use egcs 1.1 or a later version. For ELF systems some
+changes are needed to the compiler; a patch against egcs-1.1.x can be found
+at:
+
+<ftp://ftp.netwinder.org/users/p/philb/egcs-1.1.1pre2-diff-981126>
+
+Binutils 2.9.1.0.16 or later is also required.
+
?? Do I need some more things to compile the GNU C Library?
{UD} Yes, there are some more :-).
@@ -1146,9 +1157,20 @@ from your favorite mirror of ftp.gnu.org.
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 <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>, the
-required kernel version is at least 2.1.30.
+{PB} The 2.1 release of GNU libc aims to comply with the current versions of
+all the relevant standards. The IPv6 support libraries for older Linux
+systems used a different naming convention and so code written to work with
+them may need to be modified. If the standards make incompatible changes in
+the future then the libc may need to change again.
+
+IPv6 will not work with a 2.0.x kernel. When kernel 2.2 is released it
+should contain all the necessary support; until then you should use the
+latest 2.1.x release you can find. As of 98/11/26 the currently recommended
+kernel for IPv6 is 2.1.129.
+
+Also, as of the 2.1 release the IPv6 API provided by GNU libc is not
+100% complete. In particular the getipnodebyname and getipnodebyaddr
+functions are not implemented.
?? When I set the timezone by setting the TZ environment variable
to EST5EDT things go wrong since glibc computes the wrong time