Many bugs have been fixed since the last release.
Some bugs surely remain.
-As of this release, the GNU C library has been ported to the following
+As of this release, the GNU C library is known to run on the following
configurations:
- alpha-dec-osf1 (mostly finished)
- i386-bsd4.3
- i386-gnu (for Hurd development only)
- i386-sco3.2
- i386-sco3.2v4
- i386-sequent-dynix
- i386-sysv
- i386-sysv4
+ i[3456]86-*-gnu GNU Hurd
+ i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on Intel
+ m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on Motorola 680x0
+ alpha-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.0 on DEC Alpha
+
+
+Former releases of this library (version 1.09.1 and perhaps earlier
+versions) used to run on the following configurations:
+
+ alpha-dec-osf1
+ i[3456]86-*-bsd4.3
+ i[3456]86-*-isc2.2
+ i[3456]86-*-isc3
+ i[3456]86-*-sco3.2
+ i[3456]86-*-sco3.2v4
+ i[3456]86-*-sysv
+ i[3456]86-*-sysv4
+ i[3456]86-force_cpu386-none
+ i[3456]86-sequent-bsd
+ i960-nindy960-none
m68k-hp-bsd4.3
- m68k-sony-newsos
+ m68k-mvme135-none
+ m68k-mvme136-none
+ m68k-sony-newsos3
+ m68k-sony-newsos4
m68k-sun-sunos4
mips-dec-ultrix4
+ mips-sgi-irix4
sparc-sun-solaris2
sparc-sun-sunos4
-Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested in doing a port,
-please get on the mailing list by sending electronic mail to
-bug-glibc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu.
+Since no one has volunteered to test and fix the above configurations,
+these are not supported at the moment. It's expected that these don't
+work anymore. Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested
+in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers by sending
+electronic mail to <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>.
The GNU C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
-provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. Because
-of the United States export restriction on DES implementations, we are
-distributing this code separately from the rest of the C library. There is
-an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is called
-`glibc-VERSION-crypt.tar.gz'. You can just unpack the crypt distribution
-along with the rest of the C library and build; you can also build the
-library without getting crypt. Users outside the USA can get the crypt
-distribution via anonymous FTP from ftp.uni-c.dk [129.142.6.74], or another
-archive site outside the USA. Archive maintainers are encouraged to copy
-this distribution to their archives outside the USA. Please get it from
-ftp.uni-c.dk; transferring this distribution from prep.ai.mit.edu (or any
-other site in the USA) to a site outside the USA is in violation of US
-export laws.
+provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
+Because of the United States export restriction on DES implementations,
+we are distributing this code separately from the rest of the C
+library. There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is
+called `glibc-crypt-VERSION.tar.gz'. You can just unpack the crypt
+distribution along with the rest of the C library and build; you can
+also build the library without getting crypt. Users outside the USA
+can get the crypt distribution via anonymous FTP from ftp.ifi.uio.no
+[129.240.64.21], or another archive site outside the USA. Archive
+maintainers are encouraged to copy this distribution to their archives
+outside the USA. Please get it from ftp.ifi.uio.no; transferring this
+distribution from prep.ai.mit.edu (or any other site in the USA) to a
+site outside the USA is in violation of US export laws.
+
+Beside the separate crypt tar file there are some more add-ons which can be
+used together with GNU libc. They are designed in a way to ease the
+installation by integrating them in the libc source tree. Simply get the
+add-ons you need and use the --enable-add-ons option of the `configure'
+script to tell where the add-ons are found. Please read the FAQ file for
+more details.
See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, install, and port
-the GNU C library.
+the GNU C library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for the
+GNU libc at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html.
-The GNU C Library is completely documented by the Texinfo manual found in
-the `manual/' subdirectory. Please send comments on the manual to
-bug-glibc-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu, and not to the library bug-reporting address.
+The GNU C Library is completely documented by the Texinfo manual found
+in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated and
+contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not have
+the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like. Please
+send comments on the manual to <bug-glibc-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu>, and
+not to the library bug-reporting address.
-The file NOTES contains a description of the feature-test macros used in
-the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what facilities
-you want it to make available.
+The file NOTES contains a description of the feature-test macros used
+in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what
+facilities you want it to make available.
-Send bug reports to bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu.
+We prefer to get bug reports sent using the `glibcbug' shell script which
+is install together with the rest of the GNU libc to <bugs@gnu.org>.
+Simply run this shell script and fill in the information. Nevertheless
+you can still send bug reports to <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> as normal
+electronic mails.
The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
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