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[hurd,commited] hurd: Announce that glibc now builds unpatched
- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 16:46:10 +0200
- Subject: [hurd,commited] hurd: Announce that glibc now builds unpatched
* NEWS: Announce that glibc now builds unpatched on GNU/Hurd.
* README: Remove the mention of out-of-tree patches needed for
GNU/Hurd.
---
ChangeLog | 4 ++++
NEWS | 3 +++
README | 4 +---
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a1581f6cf6..ff6787cc7b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -219,6 +219,10 @@
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/htl/pt-machdep.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/htl/pt-setup.c: Likewise.
+ * NEWS: Announce that glibc now builds unpatched on GNU/Hurd.
+ * README: Remove the mention of out-of-tree patches needed for
+ GNU/Hurd.
+
2018-04-02 Agustina Arzille <avarzille@riseup.net>
Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9fb4c7a3f6..92c9b14220 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Major new features:
Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated
alternative month names.
+* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
+ patches.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
diff --git a/README b/README
index d763393f3c..2874505f45 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ implement the operating system behavior seen by user applications.
In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers.
The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
-GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[4567]86-*-gnu. The current
-GNU/Hurd support requires out-of-tree patches that will eventually be
-incorporated into an official GNU C Library release.
+GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[4567]86-*-gnu.
When working with Linux kernels, this version of the GNU C Library
requires Linux kernel version 3.2 or later.
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2.16.2