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4668903c 1This directory contains the version 2.2.3 release of the GNU C Library.
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2Many bugs have been fixed since the last release.
3Some bugs surely remain.
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845dcb57 5As of this release, the GNU C library is known to run on the following
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6configurations:
7
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8 *-*-gnu GNU Hurd
9 i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel
10 m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0
2bbc70d5 11 alpha*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha
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12 powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems
13 sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC
14 sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC
414fd335 15 arm-*-none ARM standalone systems
ef574226 16 arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM
414fd335 17 arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries
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18 mips*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on MIPS
19 ia64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on ia64
e340a2a2 20 s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390
4668903c 21 s390x-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390 64-bit
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23Former releases of this library (version 1.09.1 and perhaps earlier
24versions) used to run on the following configurations:
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28f540f4 26 alpha-dec-osf1
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27 i[3456]86-*-bsd4.3
28 i[3456]86-*-isc2.2
29 i[3456]86-*-isc3
30 i[3456]86-*-sco3.2
31 i[3456]86-*-sco3.2v4
32 i[3456]86-*-sysv
33 i[3456]86-*-sysv4
34 i[3456]86-force_cpu386-none
35 i[3456]86-sequent-bsd
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36 i960-nindy960-none
37 m68k-hp-bsd4.3
38 m68k-mvme135-none
39 m68k-mvme136-none
40 m68k-sony-newsos3
41 m68k-sony-newsos4
42 m68k-sun-sunos4
43 mips-dec-ultrix4
44 mips-sgi-irix4
45 sparc-sun-solaris2
46 sparc-sun-sunos4
47
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48Since no one has volunteered to test and fix the above configurations,
49these are not supported at the moment. It's expected that these don't
50work anymore. Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested
51in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers by sending
74015205 52electronic mail to <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
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54There are some add-ons which can be used together with GNU libc. They
55are designed in a way to ease the installation by integrating them in
56the libc source tree. Simply get the add-ons you need and use the
57--enable-add-ons option of the `configure' script to tell where the
58add-ons are found. Please read the FAQ file for more details.
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28f540f4 60See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, install, and port
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61the GNU C library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for the
62GNU libc at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html.
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64The GNU C Library is completely documented by the Texinfo manual found
65in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated and
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66contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not
67have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like.
68Please send comments on the manual to <bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org>, and
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69not to the library bug-reporting address.
70
71The file NOTES contains a description of the feature-test macros used
72in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what
73facilities you want it to make available.
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bdf289b2 75We prefer to get bug reports sent using the `glibcbug' shell script which
b9b49b44 76is installed together with the rest of the GNU libc to <bugs@gnu.org>.
bdf289b2 77Simply run this shell script and fill in the information. Nevertheless
566efee2 78you can still send bug reports to <bug-glibc@gnu.org> as normal electronic
74015205 79mails.
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81The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
82conditions.