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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-02-10 20:06:30 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-02-10 20:06:30 +0000
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1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests. * misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests. 1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle NDIGIT <= 0. 1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc) if the programs weren't built. 1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can. * sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise. 1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not _STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>. * sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added. * io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't exist. * sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file. 1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say that the return value from snprintf() does not count the terminating NUL as a character. 1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour, add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>. 1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here. (postclean): New variable. (clean): Remove makefile fragments here. (realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make. (generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out. * Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if avoid-generated is set. (postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk. ($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is set. * Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if avoid-generated is set. (common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version). (generated): Add versioned libraries. (common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a. * csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h. * db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o. * elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and $(rtld-installed-name). (others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs. * malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace. * po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more. * sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen. * sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h, syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h. (common-generated): Add s-proto.d. (postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls. * localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files. (generated): Add test-input and test-output. (generated-dirs): Add all the dirs. 1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New variables. 1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups. 1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug. From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>. * resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto. 1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc. Suggested by debian/sparc porters. 1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests for ecvt and fcvt. 1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and __fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy. * signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined. 1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly. 1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target directory first and ignore install error. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract 128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty. 1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all syscalls.list's. 1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add getresuid and getresgid. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add s_getres[ug]id. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise. 1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>. 1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments. * sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr. * sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto. 1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or __USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98. 1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs): Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data. 1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home> * Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common. * Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons. * libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols. * elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.* version symbols. * include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version): Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions. * sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in the weak symbol list. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs): Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise. 1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> * sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen. 1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com> * nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>. 1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown. 1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable. * manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se. 1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description of inet_network. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel. (grantpt): Delete superfluous cast. 1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install. (elf/ldso_install): New target. * elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change of 1998-01-06. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for constant expressions. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h" for __nss_configure_lookup. (output_hostent): Remove unused variable. 1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string. 1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
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@@ -223,20 +223,19 @@ some problems of this kind. The setting of CFLAGS is checked at the
very beginning and if it is not usable `configure' will bark.
?? Why do I get messages about missing thread functions when I use
- the librt? I don't even use threads.
+ librt? I don't even use threads.
-{UD} In this case you probably mixed up your installation of the libc.
-The librt internally uses threads and it has implicit references to
-the thread library. Normally these references are satisfied
-automatically but if the thread library belonging to the librt is not
-in the expected place one has to specify this place. When using GNU
-ld it works like this:
+{UD} In this case you probably mixed up your installation. librt uses
+threads internally and has implicit references to the thread library.
+Normally these references are satisfied automatically but if the
+thread library is not in the expected place you must tell the linker
+where it is. When using GNU ld it works like this:
gcc -o foo foo.c -Wl,-rpath-link=/some/other/dir -lrt
-The `/some/other/dir' should contain the matching thread library and
-`ld' will use the given path to find the implicitly referenced library
-while not disturbing any other link path order.
+The `/some/other/dir' should contain the thread library. `ld' will
+use the given path to find the implicitly referenced library while not
+disturbing any other link path.
?? What's the problem with configure --enable-omitfp?
@@ -509,6 +508,19 @@ catalog files to the XPG4 form:
}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+?? Programs using libc have their messages translated, but other
+ behavior is not localized (e.g. collating order); why?
+
+{ZW} Translated messages are automatically installed, but the locale
+database that controls other behaviors is not. You need to run
+localedef to install this database, after you have run `make
+install'. For example, to set up the French Canadian locale, simply
+issue the command
+
+ localedef -i fr_CA -f ISO-8859-1 fr_CA
+
+Please see localedata/README in the source tree for further details.
+
?? I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS
works great. But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.
@@ -520,13 +532,13 @@ client (the NIS_COLD_START file is byte order independent) or generate
it with nisinit from the nis-tools package (available at
http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html).
-?? I have killed ypbind to stop using NIS, but glibc will
- continue using NIS.
+?? I have killed ypbind to stop using NIS, but glibc
+ continues using NIS.
{TK} For faster NIS lookups, glibc uses the /var/yp/binding/ files
from ypbind. ypbind 3.3 and older versions don't always remove these
-files, so glibc will use them furthermore. Other BSD versions seem to
-work correct. Until ypbind 3.4 is released, you can find a patch at
+files, so glibc will continue to use them. Other BSD versions seem to
+work correctly. Until ypbind 3.4 is released, you can find a patch at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/ypbind-3.3-glibc2.diff.
?? After installing glibc name resolving doesn't work properly.
@@ -586,6 +598,15 @@ might be possible that a symbol changed size when that should not have
happened. So in case of doubt report such a warning message as a
problem.
+?? What do I need for C++ development?
+
+{HJ,AJ} You need either egcs 1.0.1 or gcc-2.8.0 with libstdc++
+2.8.0. libg++ 2.7.2 (and the Linux Versions 2.7.2.x) doesn't work very
+well with the GNU C library due to vtable thunks.
+If you're upgrading from glibc 2.0.x to 2.1 you have to recompile
+libstc++ the library compiled for 2.0 is not compatible due to the new
+Large File Support (LFS) in version 2.1.
+
? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them
?? I expect GNU libc to be 100% source code compatible with
@@ -876,6 +897,7 @@ Answers were given by:
{ZW} Zack Weinberg, <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
{TK} Thorsten Kukuk, <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
{GK} Geoffrey Keating, <Geoff.Keating@anu.edu.au>
+{HJ} H.J. Lu, <hjl@gnu.org>
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