From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:52:14 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: mention the wchar.h vs. glibc build problem
X-Git-Tag: v8.4~10
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=37b8bfda56adc0c633b041948ef78e53b8ce1add;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: mention the wchar.h vs. glibc build problem

* NEWS (Build-related): Mention the wchar.h issue.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7f0c8e2751..61e6a31c9e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Work around a build failure when using buggy <sys/capability.h>.
   Alternatively, configure with --disable-libcap.
 
+  Compilation would fail on systems using glibc-2.7..2.9 due to changes in
+  gnulib's wchar.h that tickled a bug in at least those versions of glibc's
+  own <wchar.h> header.  Now, gnulib works around the bug in those older
+  glibc <wchar.h> headers.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.3 (2010-01-07) [stable]