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[Roland McGrath]

> Around 10 packages needed to be fixed due to:

We should start capturing these kinds of details as release notes.
Unless someone has a better idea, I'd suggest just using the wiki
and pointing people to the URL in the release announcement.

> *    clock_gettime() was moved from librt to libc. Some configure 
> scripts check only whether clock_gettime is in librt and assume that 
> other functions like mq_gettattr() are in the same library. So, the 
> configure check for clock_gettime() in librt needs to be extended to 
> look for other functions as well.

This one in particular merits an example of how to fix up a configure script.


Thanks,
Roland