-This directory contains the version 2.3.4 release of the GNU C Library.
-Many bugs have been fixed since the last release.
-Some bugs surely remain.
-
-As of this release, the GNU C library is known to run on the following
-configurations:
-
- *-*-gnu GNU Hurd
- i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel
- m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0
- alpha*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha
- powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems
- powerpc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4.19+ on 64-bit PowerPC systems
- sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC
- sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC 64-bit
- arm-*-none ARM standalone systems
- arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM
- arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries
- mips*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on MIPS
- ia64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on ia64
- s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390
- s390x-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on IBM S/390 64-bit
- sh-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Super Hitachi
- x86-64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on x86-64
-
-Past releases of this library ran on a variety of configurations that are
-no longer supported. Porting the library is not hard. If you are
-interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers;
-see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for more information.
-
-There are some add-ons which can be used together with GNU libc. They
-are designed in a way to ease the installation by integrating them in
-the libc source tree. Simply get the add-ons you need and use the
---enable-add-ons option of the `configure' script to tell where the
-add-ons are found. Please read the FAQ file for more details.
-
-See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, install, and port
-the GNU C library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for the
-GNU libc at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html.
-
-The GNU C Library is completely documented by the Texinfo manual found
-in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated and
-contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not
-have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like.
-Please send comments on the manual to <bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org>, and
-not to the library bug-reporting address.
-
-The file NOTES contains a description of the feature-test macros used
-in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what
-facilities you want it to make available.
-
-Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug reporting
+This directory contains the sources of the GNU C Library.
+See the file "version.h" for what release version you have.
+
+The GNU C Library is the standard system C library for all GNU systems,
+and is an important part of what makes up a GNU system. It provides the
+system API for all programs written in C and C-compatible languages such
+as C++ and Objective C; the runtime facilities of other programming
+languages use the C library to access the underlying operating system.
+
+In GNU/Linux systems, the C library works with the Linux kernel to
+implement the operating system behavior seen by user applications.
+In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers.
+
+The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
+GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[4567]86-*-gnu.
+
+When working with Linux kernels, this version of the GNU C Library
+requires Linux kernel version 3.2 or later.
+
+Also note that the shared version of the libgcc_s library must be
+installed for the pthread library to work correctly.
+
+The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
+
+ aarch64*-*-linux-gnu
+ alpha*-*-linux-gnu
+ arm-*-linux-gnueabi
+ csky-*-linux-gnuabiv2
+ hppa-*-linux-gnu
+ i[4567]86-*-linux-gnu
+ x86_64-*-linux-gnu Can build either x86_64 or x32
+ ia64-*-linux-gnu
+ m68k-*-linux-gnu
+ microblaze*-*-linux-gnu
+ mips-*-linux-gnu
+ mips64-*-linux-gnu
+ powerpc-*-linux-gnu Hardware or software floating point, BE only.
+ powerpc64*-*-linux-gnu Big-endian and little-endian.
+ s390-*-linux-gnu
+ s390x-*-linux-gnu
+ riscv64-*-linux-gnu
+ sh[34]-*-linux-gnu
+ sparc*-*-linux-gnu
+ sparc64*-*-linux-gnu
+
+If you are interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc
+maintainers; see https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for more
+information.
+
+See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, and install
+the GNU C Library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for
+the C library at https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/.
+
+The GNU C Library is (almost) completely documented by the Texinfo manual
+found in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated
+and contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not
+have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like. For
+corrections to the manual, please file a bug in the `manual' component,
+following the bug-reporting instructions below. Please be sure to check
+the manual in the current development sources to see if your problem has
+already been corrected.
+
+Please see https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug reporting
information. We are now using the Bugzilla system to track all bug reports.
This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly.
The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require
-these additional notices to be distributed.
+these additional notices to be distributed. License copyright years may be
+listed using range notation, e.g., 1996-2015, indicating that every year in
+the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that would otherwise be listed
+individually.
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