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author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-04-21 09:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-04-21 09:43:11 +0000 |
commit | f12944ec15f451d0d1ea77cadb9ff40350075884 (patch) | |
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Update.
1998-04-21 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* ptlongjmp.c: Add prorotypes for __libc_siglongjmp and
__libc_longjmp.
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diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index f57bb17d71..716c2b9f46 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -103,6 +103,20 @@ sources. To use them, unpack them into your source tree, and give If you do not wish to use some add-on package that you have present in your source tree, give this option a list of the add-ons that you @emph{do} want used, like this: @samp{--enable-add-ons=crypt,linuxthreads} + +@item --with-headers=DIRECTORY +Search only DIRECTORY and the C compiler's private directory for header +files not found in the libc sources. @file{/usr/include} will not be +searched if this option is given. On Linux, DIRECTORY should be the +kernel's private include directory (usually +@file{/usr/src/linux/include}). + +This option is primarily of use on a system where the headers in +@file{/usr/include} come from an older version of glibc. Conflicts can +occasionally happen in this case. Note that Linux libc5 qualifies as an +older version of glibc. You can also use this option if you want to +compile glibc with a newer set of kernel headers than the ones found in +@file{/usr/include}. @end table You should not build the library in the same directory as the sources, @@ -150,12 +164,18 @@ Some of the machine-dependent code for some machines uses extensions in the GNU C compiler, so you may need to compile the library with GCC. (In fact, all of the existing complete ports require GCC.) - To build the library and related programs, type @code{make}. This will produce a lot of output, some of which may look like errors from @code{make} (but isn't). Look for error messages from @code{make} containing @samp{***}. Those indicate that something is really wrong. +The compilation process takes several hours even on fast hardware; +expect at least two hours for the default configuration on i586 for +Linux. For Hurd times are much longer. All current releases of GCC +have a problem which causes them to take several minutes to compile +certain files in the iconvdata directory. Do not panic if the compiler +appears to hang. + To build and run some test programs which exercise some of the library facilities, type @code{make check}. This will produce several files with names like @file{@var{program}.out}. |