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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2002-08-27 12:10:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2002-08-27 12:10:11 +0000 |
| commit | 934b77ac65ad586e705c8af618ec9c86a2255e90 (patch) | |
| tree | 72e1f9713bb1d48d889fd823156f750000972612 /FAQ | |
| parent | 63e9560b5a802421ae916502f77f534c8d69dbcb (diff) | |
| download | glibc-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.
Diffstat (limited to 'FAQ')
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 20 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -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. + . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |