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-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-11-27
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-11-28
Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Version 2.2.1
to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
+ IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
+ Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
Version 2.2
@@ -118,24 +122,25 @@ Recommended Tools for Compilation
least the following versions of the GNU tools (the :
* The Cygnus toolchain snapshot for the ia64 as of August 4
- including the provided set of patches.
+ including the provided set of patches. It is however recommend
+ you use the October 24 toolchain snapshot or a more recent version.
OR alternatively you can try the following (the Cygnus toolchain is
the recommended solution):
* GCC and binutils, GAS and GNU LD out of CVS from
- sources.redhat.com as of August 28, 2000 or later. The CVS tree
+ sources.redhat.com as of August 28, 2000 or later. The CVS tree
may require special patches to work properly on the ia64.
Configuring and compiling GNU Libc for Linux/ia64
=================================================
The library requires Linux kernel version 2.4.0-test4-000728 or
-later to funtion properly. Besides that it currently does not have
-support for debug and profiling libraries. Hence the following options
+later to funtion properly. Besides that it support for debug libraries
+is currently untested. Hence the following options
are required for configuring the library:
- --disable-debug --disable-profile --enable-kernel=2.4.0
+ --disable-debug --enable-kernel=2.4.0
It is also important that you make sure the library picks up the
appropriate kernel header files, if you do not have recent enough
@@ -146,7 +151,6 @@ kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include, you should use the
the library:
--disable-debug
- --disable-profile
--disable-cvs
--enable-kernel=2.4.0
--host=ia64-linux
@@ -158,7 +162,7 @@ the library:
Good luck
Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>,
-August 28th, 2000
+November 14th, 2000
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