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1 | This directory contains the version 2.3.4 release of the GNU C Library. |
| 2 | Many bugs have been fixed since the last release. | |
| 3 | Some bugs surely remain. | |
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| 5 | As of this release, the GNU C library is known to run on the following | |
| 6 | configurations: | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | *-*-gnu GNU Hurd | |
| 9 | i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel | |
| 10 | m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0 | |
| 11 | alpha*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha | |
| 12 | powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems | |
| 13 | powerpc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4.19+ on 64-bit PowerPC systems | |
| 14 | sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC | |
| 15 | sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC 64-bit | |
| 16 | arm-*-none ARM standalone systems | |
| 17 | arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM | |
| 18 | arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries | |
| 19 | mips*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on MIPS | |
| 20 | ia64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on ia64 | |
| 21 | s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390 | |
| 22 | s390x-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on IBM S/390 64-bit | |
| 23 | sh-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Super Hitachi | |
| 24 | x86-64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on x86-64 | |
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| 26 | Past releases of this library ran on a variety of configurations that are | |
| 27 | no longer supported. Porting the library is not hard. If you are | |
| 28 | interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers; | |
| 29 | see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for more information. | |
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| 31 | There are some add-ons which can be used together with GNU libc. They | |
| 32 | are designed in a way to ease the installation by integrating them in | |
| 33 | the libc source tree. Simply get the add-ons you need and use the | |
| 34 | --enable-add-ons option of the `configure' script to tell where the | |
| 35 | add-ons are found. Please read the FAQ file for more details. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, install, and port | |
| 38 | the GNU C library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for the | |
| 39 | GNU libc at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html. | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | The GNU C Library is completely documented by the Texinfo manual found | |
| 42 | in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated and | |
| 43 | contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not | |
| 44 | have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like. | |
| 45 | Please send comments on the manual to <bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org>, and | |
| 46 | not to the library bug-reporting address. | |
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| 48 | The file NOTES contains a description of the feature-test macros used | |
| 49 | in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what | |
| 50 | facilities you want it to make available. | |
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52 | Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug reporting |
| 53 | information. We are now using the Bugzilla system to track all bug reports. | |
| 54 | This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly. | |
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| 56 | The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying | |
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57 | conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require |
| 58 | these additional notices to be distributed. |