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diff --git a/ports/README b/ports/README index 51e0a303b6..7c27ccc81e 100644 --- a/ports/README +++ b/ports/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is the glibc ports repository, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc). +This is the glibc ports add-on, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc). It contains code that is not maintained in the official glibc source tree. This includes working ports to GNU/Linux on some machine architectures that @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ but may be useful for some future porter to examine. It may also include some optimized functions tailored for specific CPU implementations of an architecture, to be selected using --with-cpu. -The ports repository is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the -<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in a separate -ports git repository. See +The ports add-on is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the +<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in the ports +subdirectory of the glibc git repository. See http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html for details on using -git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports repository, please -go to http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under -the glibc "ports" component. +git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports add-on, please go to +http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under the +glibc "ports" component. An add-on for an individual port can be made from just the sysdeps/ subdirectories containing the port's code. You may want to include a @@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure file; this can either be written by hand or generated by Autoconf from sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure.in, and follow the rules for glibc add-on configure fragments. No preconfigure file should do anything on an unrelated configuration, so that disparate ports can be put -into a single add-on without interfering with each other. Files that -would go in scripts/data/ for libc go in data/ in ports. +into a single add-on without interfering with each other. Like all glibc add-ons, this must be used by specifying the directory in the --enable-add-ons option when running glibc's configure script. |