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

* NEWS (Build-related): Mention the wchar.h issue.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7f0c8e2751d97ae3136013f6479277e36c8086fb..61e6a31c9e6bc234e4566aeb1b56405a095f23c1 100644 (file)
--- 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]