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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2002-08-27 12:10:11 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2002-08-27 12:10:11 +0000
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downloadglibc-934b77ac65ad586e705c8af618ec9c86a2255e90.tar.gz
Update.
2002-08-27 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * sysdeps/arm/Dist: Add bits/link.h. * sunrpc/Makefile: Distribute thrsvc. * stdio-common/Makefile: Remove more left-overs from old stdio. * include/linewrap.h: Removed. * libio/bug-mmap-fflush.c: Rewrite to not touch source directory. * intl/Makefile (distribute): Add plural-eval.c. * stdio-common/Makefile (headers): Remove bits/stdio_lim.h. This file isn't distributed. Add special rules to install bits/stdio_lim.h. * Make-dist: Remove traces of old stdio. * Makeconfig: Likewise. * locale/Makefile (localedef-aux): New variable. Only md5 assigned to it. These files are not ddistributed in this directory. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/Dist: Add sys/procfs.h. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/Dist: Remove sys/procfs.h. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/Dist: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Dist: Remove sys/sendfile.h.
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ understand what you are undertaking before you begin.
If you have any questions you think should be answered in this document,
please let me know.
- --drepper@cygnus.com
+ --drepper@redhat.com
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ please let me know.
2.33. The makefiles want to do a CVS commit.
2.34. When compiling C++ programs, I get a compilation error in streambuf.h.
2.35. When recompiling GCC, I get compilation errors in libio.
+2.36. Why shall glibc never get installed on GNU/Linux systems in
+/usr/local?
3. Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them
@@ -854,7 +856,7 @@ files to the XPG4 form:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Change catalog source in Linux specific format to standard XPG format.
-# Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
+# Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 1996.
#
/^\$ #/ {
h
@@ -1255,6 +1257,20 @@ http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/gccinclude-glibc-2.2-compat.diff
This version is needed because the fpos_t type and a few libio internals
have changed in glibc 2.2, and gcc 2.95.3 contains a corresponding patch.
+
+2.36. Why shall glibc never get installed on GNU/Linux systems in
+/usr/local?
+
+{AJ} The GNU C compiler treats /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib in a
+special way, these directories will be searched before the system
+directories. Since on GNU/Linux the system directories /usr/include and
+/usr/lib contain a --- possibly different --- version of glibc and mixing
+certain files from different glibc installations is not supported and will
+break, you risk breaking your complete system. If you want to test a glibc
+installation, use another directory as argument to --prefix. If you like to
+install this glibc version as default version, overriding the existing one,
+use --prefix=/usr and everything will go in the right places.
+
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