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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-04-26 14:02:38 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-04-26 14:02:38 +0000
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1999-04-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Explain that files are changed in the source directory. Closes PR libc/981. (Configuring and compiling): Explain situation with PARALLELMFLAGS in the source directory. 1999-04-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * locale/programs/ld-ctype.c: Spelling fixes. (ctype_finish): Fix argument of error message format. * locale/programs/ld-messages.c: Spelling fixes. * locale/programs/ld-monetary.c: Spelling fixes. * locale/programs/ld-time.c (time_finish): Make sure that name and format of era_entries are adjacent. (time_output): Reduce the size of the io vector. 1999-04-25 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * manual/filesys.texi (Attribute Meanings): Move a misplaced paragraph. 1999-04-23 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * locale/programs/ld-collate.c (collate_output): Convert undefined_offset to an array index. Fix computation of other endian extra table.
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@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ at the top level of the source tree. In the scenario above, you'd type
$ ../glibc-2.1.0/configure @var{args...}
@end smallexample
+Please note that even if you're building in a separate build directory,
+the compiliation needs to modify a few files in the source
+directory, especially some files in the manual subdirectory.
+
@noindent
@code{configure} takes many options, but you can get away with knowing
only two: @samp{--prefix} and @samp{--enable-add-ons}. The
@@ -193,7 +197,11 @@ Instead, edit the generated @file{Makefile} and uncomment the line
@noindent
You can change the @samp{4} to some other number as appropriate for
-your system.
+your system. Instead of changing the @file{Makefile}, you could give
+this option directly to @code{make} and call it as, e.g.
+@code{make PARALLELMFLAGS=-j4}. If you're building in the source
+directory, you've got to use the latter approach since in this case no
+new @file{Makefile} is generated which you can change.
To build and run some test programs which exercise some of the library
facilities, type @code{make check}. This should complete successfully;