Started moving FAQ to the wiki - please review!

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 04/27/2012 10:12 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
>> I started with moving the FAQ from git to the wiki, it is now at:
>>
>> http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ
>
> I suggest removing the attempts to attribute individual items to
> particular authors (the {AB} at the start of entries).

I've updated the chapter 1 of FAQ now based on your comments. Let me 
just point out where I did something different.

> [...]
> "What version of the Linux kernel headers should be used?" - likewise,
> main install docs.

Let's document make install_headers - I'll do this later.

> "My XXX kernel emulates a floating-point coprocessor for me. Should I
> enable --with-fp?" - rewrite (choice of --without-fp is really about
> matching the compiler's ABI, and only relevant for certain platforms such
> as powerpc or mips).

Not done yet.

> "How can I compile on my fast ix86 machine a working libc for my slow
> i386? After installing libc, programs abort with "Illegal Instruction"." -
> remove, you can't build -march=i386 now at least with NPTL (glibc requires
> atomics only available on i486 and later).

I've changed it to use i586 as example.

thanks for the comments.

I've also added a new chapter to collect new FAQ entries and added those 
we discussed on #glibc, feel free to add others there as well...

Andreas
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