| This directory contains the version 2.3.3 release of the GNU C Library. |
| Many bugs have been fixed since the last release. |
| Some bugs surely remain. |
| |
| As of this release, the GNU C library is known to run on the following |
| configurations: |
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| *-*-gnu GNU Hurd |
| i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel |
| m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0 |
| alpha*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha |
| powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems |
| powerpc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4.19+ on 64-bit PowerPC systems |
| sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC |
| sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC 64-bit |
| arm-*-none ARM standalone systems |
| arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM |
| arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries |
| mips*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on MIPS |
| ia64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on ia64 |
| s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390 |
| s390x-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on IBM S/390 64-bit |
| sh-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Super Hitachi |
| cris-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on CRIS |
| x86-64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on x86-64 |
| |
| Former releases of this library (version 1.09.1 and perhaps earlier |
| versions) used to run on the following configurations: |
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| alpha-dec-osf1 |
| i[3456]86-*-bsd4.3 |
| i[3456]86-*-isc2.2 |
| i[3456]86-*-isc3 |
| i[3456]86-*-sco3.2 |
| i[3456]86-*-sco3.2v4 |
| i[3456]86-*-sysv |
| i[3456]86-*-sysv4 |
| i[3456]86-force_cpu386-none |
| i[3456]86-sequent-bsd |
| i960-nindy960-none |
| m68k-hp-bsd4.3 |
| m68k-mvme135-none |
| m68k-mvme136-none |
| m68k-sony-newsos3 |
| m68k-sony-newsos4 |
| m68k-sun-sunos4 |
| mips-dec-ultrix4 |
| mips-sgi-irix4 |
| sparc-sun-solaris2 |
| sparc-sun-sunos4 |
| |
| Since no one has volunteered to test and fix the above configurations, |
| these are not supported at the moment. It's expected that these don't |
| work anymore. Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested |
| in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers by sending |
| electronic mail to <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. |
| |
| There are some add-ons which can be used together with GNU libc. They |
| are designed in a way to ease the installation by integrating them in |
| the libc source tree. Simply get the add-ons you need and use the |
| --enable-add-ons option of the `configure' script to tell where the |
| add-ons are found. Please read the FAQ file for more details. |
| |
| See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, install, and port |
| the GNU C library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for the |
| GNU libc at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html. |
| |
| The GNU C Library is completely documented by the Texinfo manual found |
| in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated and |
| contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not |
| have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like. |
| Please send comments on the manual to <bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org>, and |
| not to the library bug-reporting address. |
| |
| The file NOTES contains a description of the feature-test macros used |
| in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what |
| facilities you want it to make available. |
| |
| We prefer to get bug reports sent using the `glibcbug' shell script which |
| is installed together with the rest of the GNU libc to <bugs@gnu.org>. |
| Simply run this shell script and fill in the information. Nevertheless |
| you can still send bug reports to <bug-glibc@gnu.org> as normal electronic |
| mails. |
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| The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying |
| conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require |
| these additional notices to be distributed. |