static library is compiled with no optimization and full debugging
information, and installed as `-lc_g'.
+`--enable-bounded'
+`--disable-bounded'
+ Enable or disable building of the C library with support for bounded
+ pointers. To do this one need the enhanced version of the GNU CC
+ with can generate code for bounded pointers. This version of the
+ C library is necessary to run code which is also compiled using the
+ enhanced gcc for debugging purposes.
+
+There are two more options:
+
+`--with-gmp'
+`--with-gettext'
+ These options are not of much use for the normal installer of the
+ GNU libc. Only maintainers need this to get automatic updates of
+ the files from these packages in the GNU C library source tree.
+
+
The simplest way to run `configure' is to do it in the directory
that contains the library sources. This prepares to build the library
in that very directory.
recommend you port GNU `make' instead. *Really.* We recommend
version GNU `make' version 3.75 or later.
- * GCC 2.7.2
+ * GCC 2.7.2.1
On most platforms, the GNU C library can only be compiled with the
GNU C compiler. We recommend GCC version 2.7.2 or later; earlier
versions may have problems.
- * `binutils' 2.6
+ * `binutils' 2.7
Using the GNU `binutils' (assembler, linker, and related tools) is
preferable when possible, and they are required to build an ELF
- shared C library. We recommend `binutils' version 2.6 or later;
- earlier versions are known to have problems.
+ shared C library. We recommend `binutils' version 2.7 or later;
+ earlier versions are known to have problems or to not support all
+ architectures.
Supported Configurations
------------------------
The GNU C Library currently supports configurations that match the
following patterns:
- alpha-dec-osf1
alpha-ANYTHING-linux
alpha-ANYTHING-linuxecoff
- iX86-ANYTHING-bsd4.3
iX86-ANYTHING-gnu
+ iX86-ANYTHING-linux
+ m68k-ANYTHING-linux
+ mips-ANYTHING-linux
+ sparc-ANYTHING-linux
+ powerpc-ANYTHING-linux
+
+ Former versions of this library used to support the following
+configurations but the current status is unknown:
+
+ alpha-dec-osf1
+ iX86-ANYTHING-bsd4.3
iX86-ANYTHING-isc2.2
iX86-ANYTHING-isc3.N
- iX86-ANYTHING-linux
iX86-ANYTHING-sco3.2
iX86-ANYTHING-sco3.2v4
iX86-ANYTHING-sysv
sparc-sun-solaris2.N
sparc-sun-sunos4.N
- Each case of `iX86' can be `i386', `i486', `i586', or `i686'.. All
+ Each case of `iX86' can be `i386', `i486', `i586', or `i686'. All
of those configurations produce a library that can run on any of these
processors. The library will be optimized for the specified processor,
but will not use instructions not available on all of them.
subdirectories (and subdirectory trees) for various Unix variants.
The functions which are system calls in most Unix systems are
-implemented in assembly code in files in `sysdeps/unix'. These files
-are named with a suffix of `.S'; for example, `__open.S'. Files ending
-in `.S' are run through the C preprocessor before being fed to the
-assembler.
+automatically generated from the `syscalls.list' files for the appropriate
+archirecture. The format of the syscalls.list files is quite easy: only
+a few informations are necessary line the system call name, the number of
+arguments and such. The files are run through the C preprocessor.
These files all use a set of macros that should be defined in
`sysdep.h'. The `sysdep.h' file in `sysdeps/unix' partially defines
platforms was written by Per Bothner and modified by Ulrich
Drepper.
- * The Internet-related code (most of the `inet' subdirectory) and
- several other miscellaneous functions and header files have been
- included from 4.4 BSD with little or no modification.
+ * Some of the Internet-related code (most of the `inet'
+ subdirectory) and several other miscellaneous functions and
+ header files have been included from 4.4 BSD with little or no
+ modification.
All code incorporated from 4.4 BSD is under the following
copyright:
changes to fit into the GNU C library and to fit the ANSI C
standard, but the functional code is Berkeley's.
- * The Internet resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.4,
+ * The Internet resolver code is taken directly from BIND 4.9.5,
which is under both the Berkeley copyright above and also:
Portions Copyright (C) 1993 by Digital Equipment Corporation.
extensions that they make and grant Carnegie Mellon the
rights to redistribute these changes.
+ * The `getaddrinfo' function is written by Craig Metz and it has the
+ following copyright:
+
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