Remove --disable-experimental-malloc option

[thirdparty/glibc.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 659f75a97f896350188fdab2415e5fe6fa442b54..32535709d959068e7581d877e8d9e03695c710f8 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -90,12 +90,6 @@ if 'CFLAGS' is specified it must enable optimization.  For example:
      library will still be usable, but functionality may be lost--for
      example, you can't build a shared libc with old binutils.
 
-'--with-default-link'
-     With '--with-default-link', the build system does not use a custom
-     linker script for linking shared objects.  The default is
-     '--without-default-link', because the custom linker script is
-     needed for full RELRO protection.
-
 '--with-nonshared-cflags=CFLAGS'
      Use additional compiler flags CFLAGS to build the parts of the
      library which are always statically linked into applications and
@@ -264,12 +258,6 @@ if 'CFLAGS' is specified it must enable optimization.  For example:
      independently-maintained implementations of libcrypt.  It may
      become the default in a future release.
 
-'--disable-experimental-malloc'
-     By default, a per-thread cache is enabled in 'malloc'.  While this
-     cache can be disabled on a per-application basis using tunables
-     (set glibc.malloc.tcache_count to zero), this option can be used to
-     remove it from the build completely.
-
 '--disable-scv'
      Disable using 'scv' instruction for syscalls.  All syscalls will
      use 'sc' instead, even if the kernel supports 'scv'.  PowerPC only.
@@ -500,7 +488,7 @@ build the GNU C Library:
 
    * GNU 'make' 4.0 or newer
 
-     As of relase time, GNU 'make' 4.3 is the newest verified to work to
+     As of relase time, GNU 'make' 4.4 is the newest verified to work to
      build the GNU C Library.
 
    * GCC 6.2 or newer
@@ -508,7 +496,7 @@ build the GNU C Library:
      GCC 6.2 or higher is required.  In general it is recommended to use
      the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for
      building the GNU C Library, as newer compilers usually produce
-     better code.  As of release time, GCC 12.1 is the newest compiler
+     better code.  As of release time, GCC 13.0 is the newest compiler
      verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
 
      For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), a GCC version with
@@ -543,7 +531,7 @@ build the GNU C Library:
 
      You must use GNU 'binutils' (as and ld) to build the GNU C Library.
      No other assembler or linker has the necessary functionality at the
-     moment.  As of release time, GNU 'binutils' 2.38 is the newest
+     moment.  As of release time, GNU 'binutils' 2.39 is the newest
      verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
 
      For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), 'objcopy' is
@@ -559,7 +547,7 @@ build the GNU C Library:
      need this version of the 'texinfo' package.  Earlier versions do
      not understand all the tags used in the document, and the
      installation mechanism for the info files is not present or works
-     differently.  As of release time, 'texinfo' 6.8 is the newest
+     differently.  As of release time, 'texinfo' 7.0.2 is the newest
      verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
 
    * GNU 'awk' 3.1.2, or higher
@@ -580,7 +568,7 @@ build the GNU C Library:
 
      Perl is not required, but if present it is used in some tests and
      the 'mtrace' program, to build the GNU C Library manual.  As of
-     release time 'perl' version 5.34.1 is the newest verified to work
+     release time 'perl' version 5.36.0 is the newest verified to work
      to build the GNU C Library.
 
    * GNU 'sed' 3.02 or newer
@@ -592,8 +580,8 @@ build the GNU C Library:
    * Python 3.4 or later
 
      Python is required to build the GNU C Library.  As of release time,
-     Python 3.10.5 is the newest verified to work for building and
-     testing the GNU C Library.
+     Python 3.11 is the newest verified to work for building and testing
+     the GNU C Library.
 
    * PExpect 4.0
 
@@ -625,7 +613,7 @@ and if you change any of the message translation files you will need
 
    * GNU 'gettext' 0.10.36 or later
 
-     As of release time, GNU 'gettext' version 0.21 is the newest
+     As of release time, GNU 'gettext' version 0.21.1 is the newest
      version verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
 
 You may also need these packages if you upgrade your source tree using
@@ -673,7 +661,7 @@ components of the GNU C Library installation to be in '/lib' and some in
 Library with '--prefix=/usr'.  If you set some other prefix or allow it
 to default to '/usr/local', then all the components are installed there.
 
-   As of release time, Linux version 5.18 is the newest stable version
+   As of release time, Linux version 6.1.5 is the newest stable version
 verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
 
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