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Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU C Library
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This document tries to answer questions a user might have when installing
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and using glibc. Please make sure you read this before sending questions or
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bug reports to the maintainers.
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The GNU C library is very complex. The installation process has not been
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completely automated; there are too many variables. You can do substantial
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damage to your system by installing the library incorrectly. Make sure you
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understand what you are undertaking before you begin.
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If you have any questions you think should be answered in this document,
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please let me know.
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--drepper@cygnus.com
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? Compiling glibc
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?? What systems does the GNU C Library run on?
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{UD} This is difficult to answer. The file `README' lists the architectures
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GNU libc was known to run on *at some time*. This does not mean that it
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still can be compiled and run on them now.
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The systems glibc is known to work on as of this release, and most probably
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in the future, are:
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*-*-gnu GNU Hurd
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i[3456]86-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Intel
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m68k-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Motorola 680x0
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alpha*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on DEC Alpha
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powerpc-*-linux-gnu Linux and MkLinux on PowerPC systems
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sparc-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on SPARC
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sparc64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on UltraSPARC
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arm-*-none ARM standalone systems
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arm-*-linux Linux-2.x on ARM
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arm-*-linuxaout Linux-2.x on ARM using a.out binaries
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mips*-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on MIPS
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ia64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on ia64
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s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390
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Ports to other Linux platforms are in development, and may in fact work
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already, but no one has sent us success reports for them. Currently no
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ports to other operating systems are underway, although a few people have
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expressed interest.
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If you have a system not listed above (or in the `README' file) and you are
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really interested in porting it, contact
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Update.
1997-12-28 15:08 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/powerpc/__longjmp.S: Define _SETJMP_H before including
<bits/setjmp.h>.
* sysdeps/powerpc/setjmp.S: Likewise.
Patches by Matt McLean <keys@keys.got.net>.
* Make-dist (sysdep_dirs): Ignore bits dirs while searching.
* Makefile: Undo last patch.
(distribute): Add test-installation.pl.
* configure.in: Correct handling of --enable-add-ons without parameter.
Correct address of WWW pages.
* libc.map: Add _nl_domain_bindings.
* db2/mutex/tsl_parisc.s: New file.
* iconvdata/Makefile (distribute): Add jis0201.c, jis0208.c, jis0212.c,
and extra-module.mk.
* localedata/Makefile (distribute): New. Add all the files.
* stdlib/Makefile (headers): Add inttypes.h.
(routines): Add strtoimax, strtoumax, wcstoimax, and wcstoumax.
* sysdeps/generic/inttypes.h: New file.
* sysdeps/generic/strtoimax.c: New file.
* sysdeps/generic/strtoumax.c: New file.
* sysdeps/generic/wcstoimax.c: New file.
* sysdeps/generic/wcstoumax.c: New file.
* sysdeps/wordsize-32/Dist: Removed.
* sysdeps/wordsize-32/Makefile: Removed.
* sysdeps/wordsize-64/Dist: Removed.
* sysdeps/wordsize-64/Makefile: Removed.
* sysdeps/generic/bits/environments.h: New file.
* include/limits.h: Define MB_LEN_MAX in any case to 6. The gcc
header is still not correct.
* io/fcntl.h [__USE_FILE_OFFSET64]: We have to use the __*64 types.
* posix/unistd.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/sys/mman.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/mman.h: Likewise.
* manual/arith.texi: Change definition of mul macro.
* manual/math.texi: Likewise.
* misc/Makefile (routines): Add mmap64.
* sysdeps/generic/mmap64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/mmap64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/mmap64.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add __mmap64 and mmap64
aliases to mmap.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/setrlimit64.c: Don't mark as stub.
* nis/nss_nis/nis-hosts.c (internal_nis_gethostent_r): Pretty print.
* nis(rpcsvc/nis_tags.h: Prevent warning by unknown pragma.
* sysdeps/posix/mk-stdiolim.c: Generate correct file which defines
FOPEN_MAX also when included by limits.h.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/stdio_lim.h.in: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Dist: Add oldsiglist.c, netax25/ax25.h,
and netrom/netrom.h.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile [$(subdir)=stdio-common]: Add
oldsiglist to sysdep_routines, not aux.
[$(subdir)=inet] (sysdep_headers): Add netax25/ax25.h, netrom/netrom.h.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/socket.h: Remove SOL_AX25, SOL_ATALK,
and SOL_NETROM definition.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/Dist: Add s_pwrite64.S and s_pread64.S.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/route.h: Pretty print.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/netatalk/at.h: Pretty print.
1997-12-25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/net/route.h: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/kernel_sigaction.h: Replace
sa_handler with k_sa_handler.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add __getrlimit as
strong alias.
Reported by a sun.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Don't define
__libc_have_rt_sigs here.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c: Do it instead here.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Correct comment.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
1997-12-11 07:51 Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>
* sysdeps/powerpc/atomicity.h: New file.
* sysdeps/mach/powerpc/machine-lock.h: New file.
* Rules: Use -fpic to build anything that might end up in a users'
shared library.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_fdim.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_fdimf.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_fmax.S: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_fmaxf.S: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_fmin.S: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_fminf.S: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_llrint.c: Now is for double.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_llrintf.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_llround.c: Now is for double.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_llroundf.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_lrint.c: Now is for double.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_lrintf.S: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_lround.c: Now is for double.
* sysdeps/powerpc/s_lroundf.c: New file.
* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/mathinlines.h: Add inline versions of lrint,
lrintf, fdim, fdimf.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/kernel_termios.h: Don't use bits/
file directly, use its parent.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/dl-sysdep.c: Re-instate '++'
(for the third time).
1997-12-20 13:50 Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
* posix/sched.h: timespec is in <time.h>.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/kd.h: Don't redefine _LINUX_TYPES_H.
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<bug-glibc@gnu.org>
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??binsize What compiler do I need to build GNU libc?
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{UD} You must use GNU CC to compile GNU libc. A lot of extensions of GNU CC
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are used to increase portability and speed.
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GNU CC is found, like all other GNU packages, on
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ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu
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and the many mirror sites. ftp.gnu.org is always overloaded, so try to find
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a local mirror first.
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You should always try to use the latest official release. Older versions
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may not have all the features GNU libc requires. The current releases of
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gcc (2.95 or newer) should work with the GNU C library (for powerpc see
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?powerpc; for ARM see ?arm; for MIPS see ?mips).
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Please note that gcc 2.95 and 2.95.x cannot compile glibc on Alpha due to
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problems in the complex float support.
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?? When I try to compile glibc I get only error messages.
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What's wrong?
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{UD} You definitely need GNU make to build GNU libc. No other make
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program has the needed functionality.
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We recommend version GNU make version 3.79 or newer. Older versions have
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bugs and/or are missing features.
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?? Do I need a special linker or assembler?
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{ZW} If you want a shared library, you need a linker and assembler that
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understand all the features of ELF, including weak and versioned symbols.
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The static library can be compiled with less featureful tools, but lacks key
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features such as NSS.
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For Linux or Hurd, you want binutils 2.8.1.0.23, 2.9.1, or 2.9.1.0.15 or
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higher. These are the only versions we've tested and found reliable. Other
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versions after 2.8.1.0.23 may work but we don't recommend them, especially
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not when C++ is involved. Earlier versions do not work at all.
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Other operating systems may come with system tools that have all the
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necessary features, but this is moot because glibc hasn't been ported to
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them.
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Update.
1998-04-20 18:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* libc.map: Add __dgettext to GLIBC_2.0 and __libc_longjmp, and
__libc_siglongjmp to GLIBC_2.1.
* elf/dl-minimal.c (__assert_perror_fail): Don't use strerror, use
__strerror_r.
* iconv/Makefile: Don't run tests now.
* iconv/iconv_prog.c (process_block): If loop is repeated, call iconv
with correct output buffer.
Major rewrite of the low-level gconv functionality.
* iconv/gconv.c: Rewritten.
* iconv/gconv.h: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_builtin.c: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_builtin.h: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_conf.c: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_int.h: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_open.c: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_simple.c: Likewise.
* iconv/iconv.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/8bit-gap.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/8bit-generic.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/Makefile: Likewise.
* iconvdata/big5.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643l1.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643l1.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ebcdic-at-de-a.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ebcdic-at-de.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ebcdic-ca-fr.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/euccn.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/eucjp.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/euckr.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/euctw.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/gb2312.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/gb2312.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/hp-roman8.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso646.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso6937.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-1.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-10.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-2.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-3.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-4.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-5.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-6.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-7.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-8.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-9.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0201.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0201.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0208.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0208.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0212.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0212.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/johab.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/koi-8.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/koi8-r.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ksc5601.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ksc5601.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/latin-greek-1.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/latin-greek.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/run-iconv-test.sh: Likewise.
* iconvdata/sjis.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/t61.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/uhc.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/btowc.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbrtowc.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbsnrtowcs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbsrtowcs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcrtomb.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcsmbsload.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcsnrtombs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcsrtombs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wctob.c: Likewise.
* iconv/loop.c: New file.
* iconv/skeleton.c: New file.
* stdlib/mblen.c: Handle empty input string correctly.
* stdlib/mbtowc.c: Likewise.
* posix/getopt.c: Various cleanups.
* sysdeps/arm/bits/setjmp.h: Add copyright text.
* sysdeps/i386/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/m68k/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/longjmp.c: Rename function to __libc_siglongjmp
and make longjmp weak alias.
1998-04-18 20:29 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
* iconv/Makefile (routines): Only include gconv_dl if building for
an ELF system - dynamic linking is not available on a.out.
(CFLAGS-gconv_conf.c): Define STATIC_GCONV if omitting gconv_dl
due to above check.
* iconv/gconv_db.c: If STATIC_GCONV defined, don't try to call
routines from gconv_dl.
1998-04-17 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* csu/init.c (_IO_stdin_used): Protect with USE_IN_LIBIO so that
we can compile without libio.
1998-04-20 16:28 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/Subdirs: Remove login.
1998-04-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* db2/compat.h: Include <errno.h>, to make sure we get the
definition of EFTYPE before we define it ourselves.
1998-04-10 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* sysdeps/generic/bits/socket.h: Protect against multiple inclusion.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h: Likewise.
Fix typo to allow inclusion from sys/ioctl.h again.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* iconvdata/*.[ch]: Clean up namespace. Optimize character lookup.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* libc.map: Export __strerror_r. Remove _strerror_internal.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/generic/strcasestr.c: Undefine strcasestr, not strstr.
Also undefine __strcasestr.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* posix/regex.c: Rename __re_max_failures back to re_max_failures,
aliases do not work with global variables due to copy relocations.
1998-04-20 15:12 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* manual/creature.texi: Fix type. Patch by Andreas Schwab.
1998-04-20 13:47 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* signal/sighold.c: Include stddef.h for NULL definition.
* signal/sigrelse.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/sigignore.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/sigset.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/waitid.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/rt_sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/rt_sigtimedwait.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigwaitinfo.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbsrtowcs.c: Include stdlib.h for MB_CUR_MAX.
Patch by Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>.
1998-04-13 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>
* login/Makefile (headers): Remove utmpx.h and bits/utmpx.h.
* login/getutent.c (getutxent): Remove alias.
* login/getutent_r.c (setutxent, pututxline, endutxent):
Remove aliases.
* login/getutid.c (getutxid): Remove alias.
* login/getutline.c (getutxline): Remove alias.
* login/utmp.h: Add prototypes for __updwtmp, __getutent,
__getutid, __getutline and __pututline.
* login/utmpx.h: Moved to ...
* sysdeps/gnu/utmpx.h: ... here. [__USE_GNU]: Define UTMPX_FILE,
UTMPX_FILENAME, WTMPX_FILE and WTMPX_FILENAME, declare utmpxname
and updwtmpx.
* login/updwtmp.c: Moved to ...
* sysdeps/generic/updwtmp.c: ... here. (updwtmp): Generalized by
allowing file name transformation.
* sysdeps/gnu/updwtmp.c: New file. Use generic implementation with
additional file name transformation.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/updwtmp.c: Likewise.
* login/utmp_file.c: Moved to ...
* sysdeps/generic/utmp_file.c: ... here. (setutent_file):
Generalized by allowing file name transformation. Do not
print error message. Library functions should not print them.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* sysdeps/gnu/utmp_file.c: New file. Use generic implementation
with additional file name transformation.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/utmp_file.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile [$(subdir)=login] (sysdep_routines): Add
setutxent, getutxent, endutxent, getutxid, getutxid, getutxline,
pututxline, utmpxname and updwtmpx. (sysdep_headers): Add utmpx.h
and bits/utmpx.h.
* sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h [__USE_GNU] Include paths.h.
(_PATH_UTMPX): Define to _PATH_UTMP. (_PATH_WTMPX): Define to
_PATH_WTMPX. (RUN_LVL): Define only if __USE_GNU. (ACCOUNTING):
Define if __USE_GNU.
* sysdeps/gnu/setutxent.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/getutxent.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/endutxent.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/getutxid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/getutxline.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/pututxline.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/utmpxname.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/updwtmpx.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h (_PATH_UTMP_DB): Remove.
* sysdeps/generic/bits/utmpx.h: Remove.
1998-04-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* posix/wordexp-test.c (main): Initialize ifs element of ts for
~root test.
1998-04-17 07:53 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/s_pread64.S: Fix a typo.
1998-04-17 11:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* libio/oldfileops.c (_IO_old_file_seekoff): Define temporary st
variable using _G_stat64.
* libio/fileops.c: Remove macro definition of fstat, it is in the
global header.
Reported by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de>.
1998-04-17 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/arm/strlen.S: New file, based on code by Matthew Wilcox
<willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>.
1998-04-16 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
* inet/netinet/in.h (IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_NODELOCAL): New macro,
required by IPv6 Basic API.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_LINKLOCAL): Likewise.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_SITELOCAL): Likewise.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_ORGLOCAL): Likewise.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_GLOBAL): Likewise.
1998-04-20 20:41:05 +02:00
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??powerpc Which compiler should I use for powerpc?
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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1999-08-01 00:27:07 +02:00
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{GK} You want to use at least gcc 2.95 (together with the right versions
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of all the other tools, of course). See also question ?excpt.
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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1998-11-26 13:02:23 +01:00
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??arm Which tools should I use for ARM?
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{PB} You should use egcs 1.1 or a later version. For ELF systems some
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changes are needed to the compiler; a patch against egcs-1.1.x can be found
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at:
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<ftp://ftp.netwinder.org/users/p/philb/egcs-1.1.1pre2-diff-981126>
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Binutils 2.9.1.0.16 or later is also required.
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1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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?? Do I need some more things to compile the GNU C Library?
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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{UD} Yes, there are some more :-).
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* GNU gettext. This package contains the tools needed to construct
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`message catalog' files containing translated versions of system
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1998-03-04 18:14:36 +01:00
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messages. See ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu or better any mirror
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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site. (We distribute compiled message catalogs, but they may not be
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1999-05-27 17:09:16 +02:00
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updated in patches.) Please note that the required minimal version
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(0.10.35) of gettext is alpha software and available from
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ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu .
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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* Some files are built with special tools. E.g., files ending in .gperf
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need a `gperf' program. The GNU version (now available in a separate
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package, formerly only as part of libg++) is known to work while some
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vendor versions do not.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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You should not need these tools unless you change the source files.
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1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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* Perl 5 is needed if you wish to test an installation of GNU libc
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as the primary C library.
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1997-12-14 23:24:57 +01:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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* When compiling for Linux, the header files of the Linux kernel must
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be available to the compiler as <linux/*.h> and <asm/*.h>.
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1999-08-16 04:53:37 +02:00
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* lots of disk space (~400MB for i?86-linux; more for RISC platforms).
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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* plenty of time. Compiling just the shared and static libraries for
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2000-11-08 22:20:06 +01:00
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35mins on a 2xPIII@550Mhz w/ 512MB RAM. On a 2xUltraSPARC-II@360Mhz
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w/ 1GB RAM it takes about 14 minutes. Multiply this by 1.5 or 2.0
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if you build profiling and/or the highly optimized version as well.
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For Hurd systems times are much higher.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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You should avoid compiling in a NFS mounted filesystem. This is
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very slow.
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2000-11-08 22:20:06 +01:00
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James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk> reports a compile time for
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an earlier (and smaller!) version of glibc of 45h34m for a full build
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(shared, static, and profiled) on Atari Falcon (Motorola 68030 @ 16 Mhz,
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14 Mb memory) and Jan Barte <yann@plato.uni-paderborn.de> reports
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22h48m on Atari TT030 (Motorola 68030 @ 32 Mhz, 34 Mb memory)
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1999-08-01 00:27:07 +02:00
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A full build of the PowerPC library took 1h on a PowerPC 750@400Mhz w/
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1999-11-17 19:52:42 +01:00
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64MB of RAM, and about 9h on a 601@60Mhz w/ 72Mb.
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1999-08-01 00:27:07 +02:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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If you have some more measurements let me know.
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1998-02-26 12:20:59 +01:00
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?? What version of the Linux kernel headers should be used?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{AJ,UD} The headers from the most recent Linux kernel should be used. The
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headers used while compiling the GNU C library and the kernel binary used
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when using the library do not need to match. The GNU C library runs without
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problems on kernels that are older than the kernel headers used. The other
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way round (compiling the GNU C library with old kernel headers and running
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on a recent kernel) does not necessarily work. For example you can't use
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1999-02-02 10:26:53 +01:00
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new kernel features if you used old kernel headers to compile the GNU C
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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library.
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1998-07-13 12:40:47 +02:00
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{ZW} Even if you are using a 2.0 kernel on your machine, we recommend you
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1999-01-24 11:17:23 +01:00
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compile GNU libc with 2.2 kernel headers. That way you won't have to
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recompile libc if you ever upgrade to kernel 2.2. To tell libc which
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1998-07-13 12:40:47 +02:00
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headers to use, give configure the --with-headers switch
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1999-01-24 11:17:23 +01:00
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(e.g. --with-headers=/usr/src/linux-2.2.0/include).
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1998-07-13 12:40:47 +02:00
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1999-01-24 11:17:23 +01:00
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Note that you must configure the 2.2 kernel if you do this, otherwise libc
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1998-12-01 17:11:17 +01:00
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will be unable to find <linux/version.h>. Just change the current directory
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1999-01-24 11:17:23 +01:00
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to the root of the 2.2 tree and do `make include/linux/version.h'.
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1998-07-13 12:40:47 +02:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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?? The compiler hangs while building iconvdata modules. What's
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wrong?
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2000-11-18 18:47:35 +01:00
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{} Removed. Does not apply anymore.
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1998-02-26 12:20:59 +01:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? When I run `nm -u libc.so' on the produced library I still
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find unresolved symbols. Can this be ok?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} Yes, this is ok. There can be several kinds of unresolved symbols:
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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* magic symbols automatically generated by the linker. These have names
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like __start_* and __stop_*
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* symbols starting with _dl_* come from the dynamic linker
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* weak symbols, which need not be resolved at all (fabs for example)
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Generally, you should make sure you find a real program which produces
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errors while linking before deciding there is a problem.
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??addon What are these `add-ons'?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} To avoid complications with export rules or external source code some
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2000-07-07 02:52:01 +02:00
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optional parts of the libc are distributed as separate packages, e.g., the
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linuxthreads package.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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To use these packages as part of GNU libc, just unpack the tarfiles in the
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libc source directory and tell the configuration script about them using the
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--enable-add-ons option. If you give just --enable-add-ons configure tries
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to find all the add-on packages in your source tree. This may not work. If
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it doesn't, or if you want to select only a subset of the add-ons, give a
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comma-separated list of the add-ons to enable:
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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2000-07-07 02:52:01 +02:00
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configure --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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for example.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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Add-ons can add features (including entirely new shared libraries), override
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files, provide support for additional architectures, and just about anything
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else. The existing makefiles do most of the work; only some few stub rules
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must be written to get everything running.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1999-09-05 21:37:14 +02:00
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Most add-ons are tightly coupled to a specific GNU libc version. Please
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2000-07-07 02:52:01 +02:00
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check that the add-ons work with the GNU libc. For example the linuxthreads
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add-on has the same numbering scheme as the libc and will in general only
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work with the corresponding libc.
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{AJ} With glibc 2.2 the crypt add-on and with glibc 2.1 the localedata
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add-on have been integrated into the normal glibc distribution, crypt and
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localedata are therefore not anymore add-ons.
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1999-09-05 21:37:14 +02:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? My XXX kernel emulates a floating-point coprocessor for me.
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Should I enable --with-fp?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{ZW} An emulated FPU is just as good as a real one, as far as the C library
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is concerned. You only need to say --without-fp if your machine has no way
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to execute floating-point instructions.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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People who are interested in squeezing the last drop of performance
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out of their machine may wish to avoid the trap overhead, but this is
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far more trouble than it's worth: you then have to compile
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*everything* this way, including the compiler's internal libraries
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(libgcc.a for GNU C), because the calling conventions change.
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?? When compiling GNU libc I get lots of errors saying functions
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in glibc are duplicated in libgcc.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{EY} This is *exactly* the same problem that I was having. The problem was
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due to the fact that configure didn't correctly detect that the linker flag
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--no-whole-archive was supported in my linker. In my case it was because I
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had run ./configure with bogus CFLAGS, and the test failed.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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One thing that is particularly annoying about this problem is that once this
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is misdetected, running configure again won't fix it unless you first delete
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config.cache.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} Starting with glibc-2.0.3 there should be a better test to avoid some
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problems of this kind. The setting of CFLAGS is checked at the very
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beginning and if it is not usable `configure' will bark.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-01-21 18:04:36 +01:00
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?? Why do I get messages about missing thread functions when I use
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Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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librt? I don't even use threads.
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Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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{UD} In this case you probably mixed up your installation. librt uses
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threads internally and has implicit references to the thread library.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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Normally these references are satisfied automatically but if the thread
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library is not in the expected place you must tell the linker where it is.
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When using GNU ld it works like this:
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gcc -o foo foo.c -Wl,-rpath-link=/some/other/dir -lrt
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The `/some/other/dir' should contain the thread library. `ld' will use the
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given path to find the implicitly referenced library while not disturbing
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any other link path.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? What's the problem with configure --enable-omitfp?
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{AJ} When --enable-omitfp is set the libraries are built without frame
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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pointers. Some compilers produce buggy code for this model and therefore we
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don't advise using it at the moment.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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If you use --enable-omitfp, you're on your own. If you encounter problems
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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with a library that was build this way, we advise you to rebuild the library
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without --enable-omitfp. If the problem vanishes consider tracking the
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problem down and report it as compiler failure.
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1999-02-02 10:26:53 +01:00
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Since a library built with --enable-omitfp is undebuggable on most systems,
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debuggable libraries are also built - you can use them by appending "_g" to
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the library names.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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The compilation of these extra libraries and the compiler optimizations slow
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down the build process and need more disk space.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1999-02-02 10:26:53 +01:00
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?? I get failures during `make check'. What should I do?
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1998-07-17 23:47:07 +02:00
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1999-02-02 10:26:53 +01:00
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{AJ} The testsuite should compile and run cleanly on your system; every
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failure should be looked into. Depending on the failures, you probably
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should not install the library at all.
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1998-07-17 23:47:07 +02:00
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You should consider using the `glibcbug' script to report the failure,
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providing as much detail as possible. If you run a test directly, please
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remember to set up the environment correctly. You want to test the compiled
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library - and not your installed one. The best way is to copy the exact
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command line which failed and run the test from the subdirectory for this
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test in the sources.
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There are some failures which are not directly related to the GNU libc:
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- Some compilers produce buggy code. No compiler gets single precision
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complex numbers correct on Alpha. Otherwise, the egcs 1.1 release should be
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ok; gcc 2.8.1 might cause some failures; gcc 2.7.2.x is so buggy that
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explicit checks have been used so that you can't build with it.
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- The kernel might have bugs. For example on Linux/Alpha 2.0.34 the
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floating point handling has quite a number of bugs and therefore most of
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the test cases in the math subdirectory will fail. Linux 2.2 has
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fixes for the floating point support on Alpha. The Linux/SPARC kernel has
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also some bugs in the FPU emulation code (as of Linux 2.2.0).
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- Other tools might have problems. For example bash 2.03 gives a
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segmentation fault running the tst-rpmatch.sh test script.
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1998-07-17 23:47:07 +02:00
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1998-09-09 13:46:18 +02:00
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?? What is symbol versioning good for? Do I need it?
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{AJ} Symbol versioning solves problems that are related to interface
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changes. One version of an interface might have been introduced in a
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previous version of the GNU C library but the interface or the semantics of
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the function has been changed in the meantime. For binary compatibility
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with the old library, a newer library needs to still have the old interface
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for old programs. On the other hand, new programs should use the new
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1998-09-09 13:46:18 +02:00
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interface. Symbol versioning is the solution for this problem. The GNU
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1999-02-02 10:26:53 +01:00
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libc version 2.1 uses symbol versioning by default if the installed binutils
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supports it.
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1998-09-09 13:46:18 +02:00
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1999-02-02 10:26:53 +01:00
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We don't advise building without symbol versioning, since you lose binary
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compatibility - forever! The binary compatibility you lose is not only
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against the previous version of the GNU libc (version 2.0) but also against
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all future versions.
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1999-07-09 11:58:27 +02:00
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?? How can I compile on my fast ix86 machine a working libc for my slow
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i386? After installing libc, programs abort with "Illegal
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Instruction".
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{AJ} glibc and gcc might generate some instructions on your machine that
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aren't available on i386. You've got to tell glibc that you're configuring
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for i386 with adding i386 as your machine, for example:
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../configure --prefix=/usr i386-pc-linux-gnu
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And you need to tell gcc to only generate i386 code, just add `-mcpu=i386'
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(just -m386 doesn't work) to your CFLAGS.
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{UD} This applies not only to the i386. Compiling on a i686 for any older
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model will also fail if the above methods are not used.
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2000-02-23 23:15:49 +01:00
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?? `make' complains about a missing dlfcn/libdl.so when building
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malloc/libmemprof.so. How can I fix this?
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{AJ} Older make version (<= 3.78.90) have a bug which was hidden by a bug in
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2000-08-09 09:12:30 +02:00
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glibc (<= 2.1.2). You need to upgrade make to a newer or fixed version.
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2000-02-23 23:15:49 +01:00
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After upgrading make, you should remove the file sysd-sorted in your build
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directory. The problem is that the broken make creates a wrong order for
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one list in that file. The list has to be recreated with the new make -
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which happens if you remove the file.
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You might encounter this bug also in other situations where make scans
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2000-08-09 09:12:30 +02:00
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directories. I strongly advise to upgrade your make version to 3.79 or
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newer.
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2000-02-23 23:15:49 +01:00
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1999-07-09 11:58:27 +02:00
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2000-10-21 13:04:04 +02:00
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??mips Which tools should I use for MIPS?
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2000-10-22 08:18:44 +02:00
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{AJ} You should use the current development version of gcc 2.97 from CVS.
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gcc 2.95.x does not work correctly on mips-linux.
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2000-10-21 13:04:04 +02:00
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2000-10-22 08:18:44 +02:00
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You need also recent binutils, anything before and including 2.10 will not
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work correctly. Either try the Linux binutils 2.10.0.33 from HJ Lu or the
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2000-10-21 13:04:04 +02:00
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current development version from CVS of binutils.
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For details check also my page <http://www.suse.de/~aj/glibc-mips.html>.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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? Installation and configuration issues
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?? Can I replace the libc on my Linux system with GNU libc?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} You cannot replace any existing libc for Linux with GNU libc. It is
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binary incompatible and therefore has a different major version. You can,
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however, install it alongside your existing libc.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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For Linux there are three major libc versions:
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libc-4 a.out libc
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libc-5 original ELF libc
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libc-6 GNU libc
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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You can have any combination of these three installed. For more information
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consult documentation for shared library handling. The Makefiles of GNU
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libc will automatically generate the needed symbolic links which the linker
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will use.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? How do I configure GNU libc so that the essential libraries
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like libc.so go into /lib and the other into /usr/lib?
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{UD,AJ} Like all other GNU packages GNU libc is designed to use a base
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directory and install all files relative to this. The default is
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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/usr/local, because this is safe (it will not damage the system if installed
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there). If you wish to install GNU libc as the primary C library on your
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system, set the base directory to /usr (i.e. run configure --prefix=/usr
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<other_options>). Note that this can damage your system; see ?safety for
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details.
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Some systems like Linux have a filesystem standard which makes a difference
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between essential libraries and others. Essential libraries are placed in
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/lib because this directory is required to be located on the same disk
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partition as /. The /usr subtree might be found on another
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partition/disk. If you configure for Linux with --prefix=/usr, then this
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will be done automatically.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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To install the essential libraries which come with GNU libc in /lib on
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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systems other than Linux one must explicitly request it. Autoconf has no
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option for this so you have to use a `configparms' file (see the `INSTALL'
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file for details). It should contain:
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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slibdir=/lib
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sysconfdir=/etc
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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The first line specifies the directory for the essential libraries, the
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second line the directory for system configuration files.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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??safety How should I avoid damaging my system when I install GNU libc?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{ZW} If you wish to be cautious, do not configure with --prefix=/usr. If
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you don't specify a prefix, glibc will be installed in /usr/local, where it
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will probably not break anything. (If you wish to be certain, set the
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prefix to something like /usr/local/glibc2 which is not used for anything.)
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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The dangers when installing glibc in /usr are twofold:
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* glibc will overwrite the headers in /usr/include. Other C libraries
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1999-03-08 15:50:23 +01:00
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install a different but overlapping set of headers there, so the effect
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will probably be that you can't compile anything. You need to rename
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/usr/include out of the way before running `make install'. (Do not throw
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it away; you will then lose the ability to compile programs against your
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old libc.)
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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* None of your old libraries, static or shared, can be used with a
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different C library major version. For shared libraries this is not a
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problem, because the filenames are different and the dynamic linker
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will enforce the restriction. But static libraries have no version
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information. You have to evacuate all the static libraries in
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/usr/lib to a safe location.
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The situation is rather similar to the move from a.out to ELF which
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long-time Linux users will remember.
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?? Do I need to use GNU CC to compile programs that will use the
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GNU C Library?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{ZW} In theory, no; the linker does not care, and the headers are supposed
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to check for GNU CC before using its extensions to the C language.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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However, there are currently no ports of glibc to systems where another
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compiler is the default, so no one has tested the headers extensively
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against another compiler. You may therefore encounter difficulties. If you
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do, please report them as bugs.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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Also, in several places GNU extensions provide large benefits in code
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quality. For example, the library has hand-optimized, inline assembly
|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
|
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|
versions of some string functions. These can only be used with GCC. See
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?string for details.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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??crypt When linking with the new libc I get unresolved symbols
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|
`crypt' and `setkey'. Why aren't these functions in the
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libc anymore?
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|
2000-11-06 08:25:55 +01:00
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{} Removed. Does not apply anymore.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? When I use GNU libc on my Linux system by linking against
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|
the libc.so which comes with glibc all I get is a core dump.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} On Linux, gcc sets the dynamic linker to /lib/ld-linux.so.1 unless the
|
1999-06-06 11:23:32 +02:00
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user specifies a --dynamic-linker argument. This is the name of the libc5
|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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dynamic linker, which does not work with glibc.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-09-23 17:28:54 +02:00
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For casual use of GNU libc you can just specify to the linker
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--dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux.so.2
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
|
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|
which is the glibc dynamic linker, on Linux systems. On other systems the
|
1998-09-23 17:28:54 +02:00
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|
name is /lib/ld.so.1. When linking via gcc, you've got to add
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|
-Wl,--dynamic-linker=/lib/ld-linux.so.2
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to the gcc command line.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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|
To change your environment to use GNU libc for compiling you need to change
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|
|
the `specs' file of your gcc. This file is normally found at
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
|
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|
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/<arch>/<version>/specs
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|
|
In this file you have to change a few things:
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|
- change `ld-linux.so.1' to `ld-linux.so.2'
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|
- remove all expression `%{...:-lgmon}'; there is no libgmon in glibc
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- fix a minor bug by changing %{pipe:-} to %|
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|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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|
Here is what the gcc-2.7.2 specs file should look like when GNU libc is
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installed at /usr:
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
*asm:
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|
%{V} %{v:%{!V:-V}} %{Qy:} %{!Qn:-Qy} %{n} %{T} %{Ym,*} %{Yd,*} %{Wa,*:%*}
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*asm_final:
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%|
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*cpp:
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|
%{fPIC:-D__PIC__ -D__pic__} %{fpic:-D__PIC__ -D__pic__} %{!m386:-D__i486__} %{posix:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} %{pthread:-D_REENTRANT}
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*cc1:
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%{profile:-p}
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*cc1plus:
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*endfile:
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%{!shared:crtend.o%s} %{shared:crtendS.o%s} crtn.o%s
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*link:
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-m elf_i386 %{shared:-shared} %{!shared: %{!ibcs: %{!static: %{rdynamic:-export-dynamic} %{!dynamic-linker:-dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2}} %{static:-static}}}
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*lib:
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%{!shared: %{pthread:-lpthread} %{profile:-lc_p} %{!profile: -lc}}
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*libgcc:
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-lgcc
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*startfile:
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%{!shared: %{pg:gcrt1.o%s} %{!pg:%{p:gcrt1.o%s} %{!p:%{profile:gcrt1.o%s} %{!profile:crt1.o%s}}}} crti.o%s %{!shared:crtbegin.o%s} %{shared:crtbeginS.o%s}
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*switches_need_spaces:
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*signed_char:
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%{funsigned-char:-D__CHAR_UNSIGNED__}
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*predefines:
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-D__ELF__ -Dunix -Di386 -Dlinux -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(posix) -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386)
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*cross_compile:
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0
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*multilib:
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. ;
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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|
Things get a bit more complicated if you have GNU libc installed in some
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other place than /usr, i.e., if you do not want to use it instead of the old
|
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|
libc. In this case the needed startup files and libraries are not found in
|
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|
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the regular places. So the specs file must tell the compiler and linker
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exactly what to use.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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Version 2.7.2.3 does and future versions of GCC will automatically
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provide the correct specs.
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|
?? Looking through the shared libc file I haven't found the
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|
|
functions `stat', `lstat', `fstat', and `mknod' and while
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|
linking on my Linux system I get error messages. How is
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|
this supposed to work?
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|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{RM} Believe it or not, stat and lstat (and fstat, and mknod) are supposed
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|
to be undefined references in libc.so.6! Your problem is probably a missing
|
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|
or incorrect /usr/lib/libc.so file; note that this is a small text file now,
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|
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|
not a symlink to libc.so.6. It should look something like this:
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-01 01:45:03 +02:00
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GROUP ( libc.so.6 libc_nonshared.a )
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1999-08-01 00:27:07 +02:00
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|
??excpt When I run an executable on one system which I compiled on
|
1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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|
another, I get dynamic linker errors. Both systems have the same
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|
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|
|
version of glibc installed. What's wrong?
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{ZW} Glibc on one of these systems was compiled with gcc 2.7 or 2.8, the
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|
other with egcs (any version). Egcs has functions in its internal
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|
`libgcc.a' to support exception handling with C++. They are linked into
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any program or dynamic library compiled with egcs, whether it needs them or
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not. Dynamic libraries then turn around and export those functions again
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unless special steps are taken to prevent them.
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When you link your program, it resolves its references to the exception
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functions to the ones exported accidentally by libc.so. That works fine as
|
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|
long as libc has those functions. On the other system, libc doesn't have
|
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|
those functions because it was compiled by gcc 2.8, and you get undefined
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|
|
symbol errors. The symbols in question are named things like
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`__register_frame_info'.
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For glibc 2.0, the workaround is to not compile libc with egcs. We've also
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|
incorporated a patch which should prevent the EH functions sneaking into
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|
libc. It doesn't matter what compiler you use to compile your program.
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For glibc 2.1, we've chosen to do it the other way around: libc.so
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|
explicitly provides the EH functions. This is to prevent other shared
|
1999-03-08 15:23:38 +01:00
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libraries from doing it.
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{UD} Starting with glibc 2.1.1 you can compile glibc with gcc 2.8.1 or
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|
newer since we have explicitly add references to the functions causing the
|
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|
|
problem. But you nevertheless should use EGCS for other reasons
|
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(see ?binsize).
|
1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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1999-08-01 00:27:07 +02:00
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|
{GK} On some Linux distributions for PowerPC, you can see this when you have
|
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|
|
built gcc or egcs from the Web sources (gcc versions 2.95 or earlier), then
|
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|
|
re-built glibc. This happens because in these versions of gcc, exception
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|
|
handling is implemented using an older method; the people making the
|
|
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|
|
distributions are a little ahead of their time.
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|
|
A quick solution to this is to find the libgcc.a file that came with the
|
1999-11-17 19:52:42 +01:00
|
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|
|
distribution (it would have been installed under /usr/lib/gcc-lib), do
|
1999-08-01 00:27:07 +02:00
|
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|
|
`ar x libgcc.a frame.o' to get the frame.o file out, and add a line saying
|
|
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|
|
`LDLIBS-c.so += frame.o' to the file `configparms' in the directory you're
|
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|
|
building in. You can check you've got the right `frame.o' file by running
|
|
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|
|
`nm frame.o' and checking that it has the symbols defined that you're
|
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missing.
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This will let you build glibc with the C compiler. The C++ compiler
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will still be binary incompatible with any C++ shared libraries that
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you got with your distribution.
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?? How can I compile gcc 2.7.2.1 from the gcc source code using
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glibc 2.x?
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{AJ} There's only correct support for glibc 2.0.x in gcc 2.7.2.3 or later.
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But you should get at least gcc 2.95.2.1 (or later versions) instead.
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?? The `gencat' utility cannot process the catalog sources which
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were used on my Linux libc5 based system. Why?
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{UD} The `gencat' utility provided with glibc complies to the XPG standard.
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The older Linux version did not obey the standard, so they are not
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compatible.
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To ease the transition from the Linux version some of the non-standard
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features are also present in the `gencat' program of GNU libc. This mainly
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includes the use of symbols for the message number and the automatic
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generation of header files which contain the needed #defines to map the
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symbols to integers.
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Here is a simple SED script to convert at least some Linux specific catalog
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files to the XPG4 form:
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# Change catalog source in Linux specific format to standard XPG format.
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# Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
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Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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?? Programs using libc have their messages translated, but other
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behavior is not localized (e.g. collating order); why?
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{ZW} Translated messages are automatically installed, but the locale
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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database that controls other behaviors is not. You need to run localedef to
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install this database, after you have run `make install'. For example, to
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|
set up the French Canadian locale, simply issue the command
|
Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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localedef -i fr_CA -f ISO-8859-1 fr_CA
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Please see localedata/README in the source tree for further details.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS
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works great. But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{TK} The glibc NIS+ implementation uses a /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START file for
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storing information about the NIS+ server and their public keys, because the
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nis.conf file does not contain all the necessary information. You have to
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copy a NIS_COLD_START file from a Solaris client (the NIS_COLD_START file is
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byte order independent) or generate it with nisinit from the nis-tools
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package; available at
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1999-04-08 04:10:39 +02:00
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http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html
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Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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?? I have killed ypbind to stop using NIS, but glibc
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1998-05-21 18:24:27 +02:00
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continues using NIS.
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1998-01-31 13:11:10 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{TK} For faster NIS lookups, glibc uses the /var/yp/binding/ files from
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ypbind. ypbind 3.3 and older versions don't always remove these files, so
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glibc will continue to use them. Other BSD versions seem to work correctly.
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Until ypbind 3.4 is released, you can find a patch at
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1999-05-16 01:31:55 +02:00
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<ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/ypbind-3.3-glibc4.diff.gz>
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1998-03-06 10:18:45 +01:00
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1998-05-21 18:24:27 +02:00
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?? Under Linux/Alpha, I always get "do_ypcall: clnt_call:
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RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused" when using NIS.
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1998-03-06 10:18:45 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{TK} You need a ypbind version which is 64bit clean. Some versions are not
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64bit clean. A 64bit clean implementation is ypbind-mt. For ypbind 3.3,
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you need the patch from ftp.kernel.org (See the previous question). I don't
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know about other versions.
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1998-03-06 10:18:45 +01:00
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1998-01-31 13:11:10 +01:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? After installing glibc name resolving doesn't work properly.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{AJ} You probably should read the manual section describing nsswitch.conf
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(just type `info libc "NSS Configuration File"'). The NSS configuration
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file is usually the culprit.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-05-21 18:24:27 +02:00
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?? How do I create the databases for NSS?
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{AJ} If you have an entry "db" in /etc/nsswitch.conf you should also create
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the database files. The glibc sources contain a Makefile which does the
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1998-09-09 13:46:18 +02:00
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necessary conversion and calls to create those files. The file is
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1998-05-21 18:24:27 +02:00
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`db-Makefile' in the subdirectory `nss' and you can call it with `make -f
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db-Makefile'. Please note that not all services are capable of using a
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database. Currently passwd, group, ethers, protocol, rpc, services shadow
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2000-01-26 03:07:07 +01:00
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and netgroup are implemented. See also question ?nssdb.
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1998-05-21 18:24:27 +02:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? I have /usr/include/net and /usr/include/scsi as symlinks
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into my Linux source tree. Is that wrong?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{PB} This was necessary for libc5, but is not correct when using glibc.
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Including the kernel header files directly in user programs usually does not
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work (see ?kerhdr). glibc provides its own <net/*> and <scsi/*> header
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files to replace them, and you may have to remove any symlink that you have
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in place before you install glibc. However, /usr/include/asm and
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/usr/include/linux should remain as they were.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? Programs like `logname', `top', `uptime' `users', `w' and
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`who', show incorrect information about the (number of)
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users on my system. Why?
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{MK} See ?getlog.
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?? After upgrading to glibc 2.1 with symbol versioning I get
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errors about undefined symbols. What went wrong?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{AJ} The problem is caused either by wrong program code or tools. In the
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versioned libc a lot of symbols are now local that were global symbols in
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previous versions. It seems that programs linked against older versions
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often accidentally used libc global variables -- something that should not
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happen.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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The only way to fix this is to recompile your program. Sorry, that's the
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price you might have to pay once for quite a number of advantages with
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symbol versioning.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? When I start the program XXX after upgrading the library
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I get
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XXX: Symbol `_sys_errlist' has different size in shared
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object, consider re-linking
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Why? What should I do?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} As the message says, relink the binary. The problem is that a few
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symbols from the library can change in size and there is no way to avoid
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this. _sys_errlist is a good example. Occasionally there are new error
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numbers added to the kernel and this must be reflected at user level,
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breaking programs that refer to them directly.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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Such symbols should normally not be used at all. There are mechanisms to
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avoid using them. In the case of _sys_errlist, there is the strerror()
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function which should _always_ be used instead. So the correct fix is to
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rewrite that part of the application.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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In some situations (especially when testing a new library release) it might
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be possible that a symbol changed size when that should not have happened.
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So in case of doubt report such a warning message as a problem.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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?? What do I need for C++ development?
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1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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{HJ,AJ} You need either egcs 1.1 which comes directly with libstdc++ or
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gcc-2.8.1 together with libstdc++ 2.8.1.1. egcs 1.1 has the better C++
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support and works directly with glibc 2.1. If you use gcc-2.8.1 with
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libstdc++ 2.8.1.1, you need to modify libstdc++ a bit. A patch is available
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as:
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1999-05-16 01:31:55 +02:00
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<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libstdc++-2.8.1.1-glibc2.1-diff.gz>
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1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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Please note that libg++ 2.7.2 (and the Linux Versions 2.7.2.x) doesn't work
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very well with the GNU C library due to vtable thunks. If you're upgrading
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from glibc 2.0.x to 2.1 you have to recompile libstdc++ since the library
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compiled for 2.0 is not compatible due to the new Large File Support (LFS)
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in version 2.1.
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1998-10-25 10:16:51 +01:00
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{UD} But since in the case of a shared libstdc++ the version numbers should
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be different existing programs will continue to work.
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Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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1998-04-07 18:19:36 +02:00
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?? Even statically linked programs need some shared libraries
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which is not acceptable for me. What can I do?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{AJ} NSS (for details just type `info libc "Name Service Switch"') won't
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work properly without shared libraries. NSS allows using different services
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(e.g. NIS, files, db, hesiod) by just changing one configuration file
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(/etc/nsswitch.conf) without relinking any programs. The only disadvantage
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is that now static libraries need to access shared libraries. This is
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handled transparently by the GNU C library.
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1998-04-07 18:19:36 +02:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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A solution is to configure glibc with --enable-static-nss. In this case you
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can create a static binary that will use only the services dns and files
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(change /etc/nsswitch.conf for this). You need to link explicitly against
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all these services. For example:
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1998-04-07 18:19:36 +02:00
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2000-10-15 08:50:42 +02:00
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gcc -static test-netdb.c -o test-netdb \
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-Wl,--start-group -lc -lnss_files -lnss_dns -lresolv -Wl,--end-group
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1998-04-07 18:19:36 +02:00
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The problem with this approach is that you've got to link every static
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program that uses NSS routines with all those libraries.
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{UD} In fact, one cannot say anymore that a libc compiled with this
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option is using NSS. There is no switch anymore. Therefore it is
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*highly* recommended *not* to use --enable-static-nss since this makes
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the behaviour of the programs on the system inconsistent.
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1998-06-16 18:30:14 +02:00
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?? I just upgraded my Linux system to glibc and now I get
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errors whenever I try to link any program.
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{ZW} This happens when you have installed glibc as the primary C library but
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have stray symbolic links pointing at your old C library. If the first
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`libc.so' the linker finds is libc 5, it will use that. Your program
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expects to be linked with glibc, so the link fails.
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The most common case is that glibc put its `libc.so' in /usr/lib, but there
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was a `libc.so' from libc 5 in /lib, which gets searched first. To fix the
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problem, just delete /lib/libc.so. You may also need to delete other
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symbolic links in /lib, such as /lib/libm.so if it points to libm.so.5.
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1998-06-17 19:59:25 +02:00
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{AJ} The perl script test-installation.pl which is run as last step during
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an installation of glibc that is configured with --prefix=/usr should help
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detect these situations. If the script reports problems, something is
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really screwed up.
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1998-10-20 23:18:11 +02:00
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?? When I use nscd the machine freezes.
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1998-11-20 18:27:47 +01:00
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{UD} You cannot use nscd with Linux 2.0.*. There is functionality missing
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in the kernel and work-arounds are not suitable. Besides, some parts of the
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kernel are too buggy when it comes to using threads.
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1998-10-20 23:18:11 +02:00
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1999-01-24 11:17:23 +01:00
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If you need nscd, you have to use at least a 2.1 kernel.
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1998-10-20 23:18:11 +02:00
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Note that I have at this point no information about any other platform.
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1998-11-25 16:42:34 +01:00
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?? I need lots of open files. What do I have to do?
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{AJ} This is at first a kernel issue. The kernel defines limits with
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OPEN_MAX the number of simultaneous open files and with FD_SETSIZE the
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number of used file descriptors. You need to change these values in your
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2000-03-10 09:41:39 +01:00
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kernel and recompile the kernel so that the kernel allows more open
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1998-11-25 16:42:34 +01:00
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files. You don't necessarily need to recompile the GNU C library since the
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only place where OPEN_MAX and FD_SETSIZE is really needed in the library
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itself is the size of fd_set which is used by select.
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1999-08-02 22:04:56 +02:00
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The GNU C library is now select free. This means it internally has no
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limits imposed by the `fd_set' type. Instead all places where the
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1998-11-25 16:42:34 +01:00
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functionality is needed the `poll' function is used.
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If you increase the number of file descriptors in the kernel you don't need
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1999-11-17 19:52:42 +01:00
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to recompile the C library.
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1998-11-25 16:42:34 +01:00
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{UD} You can always get the maximum number of file descriptors a process is
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allowed to have open at any time using
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number = sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX);
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This will work even if the kernel limits change.
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1998-12-16 12:10:36 +01:00
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?? How do I get the same behavior on parsing /etc/passwd and
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/etc/group as I have with libc5 ?
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{TK} The name switch setup in /etc/nsswitch.conf selected by most Linux
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distributions does not support +/- and netgroup entries in the files like
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/etc/passwd. Though this is the preferred setup some people might have
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setups coming over from the libc5 days where it was the default to recognize
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lines like this. To get back to the old behaviour one simply has to change
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the rules for passwd, group, and shadow in the nsswitch.conf file as
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follows:
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passwd: compat
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group: compat
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shadow: compat
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passwd_compat: nis
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group_compat: nis
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shadow_compat: nis
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1999-03-08 19:11:53 +01:00
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??libs What needs to be recompiled when upgrading from glibc 2.0 to glibc
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1999-01-20 17:12:52 +01:00
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2.1?
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{AJ,CG} If you just upgrade the glibc from 2.0.x (x <= 7) to 2.1, binaries
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that have been linked against glibc 2.0 will continue to work.
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If you compile your own binaries against glibc 2.1, you also need to
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1999-11-23 18:47:25 +01:00
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recompile some other libraries. The problem is that libio had to be changed
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and therefore libraries that are based or depend on the libio of glibc,
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e.g. ncurses, slang and most C++ libraries, need to be recompiled. If you
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experience strange segmentation faults in your programs linked against glibc
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2.1, you might need to recompile your libraries.
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1999-01-20 17:12:52 +01:00
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Another problem is that older binaries that were linked statically against
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glibc 2.0 will reference the older nss modules (libnss_files.so.1 instead of
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libnss_files.so.2), so don't remove them. Also, the old glibc-2.0 compiled
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static libraries (libfoo.a) which happen to depend on the older libio
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1999-01-21 15:17:43 +01:00
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behavior will be broken by the glibc 2.1 upgrade. We plan to produce a
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compatibility library that people will be able to link in if they want
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to compile a static library generated against glibc 2.0 into a program
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on a glibc 2.1 system. You just add -lcompat and you should be fine.
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The glibc-compat add-on will provide the libcompat.a library, the older
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nss modules, and a few other files. Together, they should make it
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possible to do development with old static libraries on a glibc 2.1
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1999-02-07 01:06:12 +01:00
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system. This add-on is still in development. You can get it from
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1999-10-11 22:17:13 +02:00
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<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-compat-2.1.tar.gz>
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1999-01-21 15:17:43 +01:00
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but please keep in mind that it is experimental.
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1998-11-25 16:42:34 +01:00
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Update.
1999-01-28 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/wordsize-32/stdint.h (INT8_C, INT16_C, INT32_C, INT64_C,
UINT8_C, UINT16_C, UINT32_C, UINT64_C): Remove casts, they must be
integer constants. Use ## directly instead of __CONCAT so that
the suffix string is not expanded as a macro.
* sysdeps/wordsize-64/stdint.h (INT8_C, INT16_C, INT32_C, INT64_C,
UINT8_C, UINT16_C, UINT32_C, UINT64_C): Likewise.
(INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX, UINT64_MAX, INT_LEAST64_MIN,
INT_LEAST64_MAX, UINT_LEAST64_MAX, INT_FAST16_MIN, INT_FAST32_MIN,
INT_FAST64_MIN, INT_FAST16_MAX, INT_FAST32_MAX, INT_FAST64_MAX,
UINT_FAST16_MAX, UINT_FAST32_MAX, UINT_FAST64_MAX, INTMAX_MIN,
INTMAX_MAX, UINTMAX_MAX): Define as long constants, not long long.
1999-01-28 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
* locale/mb_cur_max.c (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Correct return
type to size_t.
* locale/broken_cur_max.c (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Likewise.
* stdlib/stdlib.h (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Likewise.
1999-01-27 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/vfork.S: Deleted.
1999-01-29 10:01:50 +01:00
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?? Why is extracting files via tar so slow?
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{AJ} Extracting of tar archives might be quite slow since tar has to look up
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userid and groupids and doesn't cache negative results. If you have nis or
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nisplus in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for the passwd and/or group database,
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each file extractions needs a network connection. There are two possible
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solutions:
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- do you really need NIS/NIS+ (some Linux distributions add by default
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nis/nisplus even if it's not needed)? If not, just remove the entries.
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- if you need NIS/NIS+, use the Name Service Cache Daemon nscd that comes
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with glibc 2.1.
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1999-02-27 11:59:20 +01:00
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?? Compiling programs I get parse errors in libio.h (e.g. "parse error
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before `_IO_seekoff'"). How should I fix this?
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{AJ} You might get the following errors when upgrading to glibc 2.1:
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In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:57,
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from ...
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/usr/include/libio.h:335: parse error before `_IO_seekoff'
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/usr/include/libio.h:335: parse error before `_G_off64_t'
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/usr/include/libio.h:336: parse error before `_IO_seekpos'
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/usr/include/libio.h:336: parse error before `_G_fpos64_t'
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The problem is a wrong _G_config.h file in your include path. The
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_G_config.h file that comes with glibc 2.1 should be used and not one from
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libc5 or from a compiler directory. To check which _G_config.h file the
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compiler uses, compile your program with `gcc -E ...|grep G_config.h' and
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remove that file. Your compiler should pick up the file that has been
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installed by glibc 2.1 in your include directory.
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1999-03-08 19:11:53 +01:00
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?? After upgrading to glibc 2.1, libraries that were compiled against
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glibc 2.0.x don't work anymore.
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{AJ} See ?libs.
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2000-01-26 03:07:07 +01:00
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|
??nssdb What happened to the Berkeley DB libraries? Can I still use db
|
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in /etc/nsswitch.conf?
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{AJ} Due to too many incompatible changes in disk layout and API of Berkeley
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DB and a too tight coupling of libc and libdb, the db library has been
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removed completely from glibc 2.2. The only place that really used the
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Berkeley DB was the NSS db module.
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The NSS db module has been rewritten to support a number of different
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versions of Berkeley DB for the NSS db module. Currently the releases 2.x
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and 3.x of Berkeley DB are supported. The older db 1.85 library is not
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supported. You can use the version from glibc 2.1.x or download a version
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from Sleepycat Software (http://www.sleepycat.com). The library has to be
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compiled as shared library and installed in the system lib directory
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(normally /lib). The library needs to have a special soname to be found by
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the NSS module.
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If public structures change in a new Berkeley db release, this needs to be
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reflected in glibc.
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Currently the code searches for libraries with a soname of "libdb.so.3"
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(that's the name from db 2.4.14 which comes with glibc 2.1.x) and
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"libdb-3.0.so" (the name used by db 3.0.55 as default).
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|
2000-10-24 17:36:52 +02:00
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The nss_db module is now in a separate package since it requires a database
|
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library being available.
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?? What has do be done when upgrading to glibc 2.2?
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{AJ} The upgrade to glibc 2.2 should run smoothly, there's in general no
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need to recompile programs or libraries. Nevertheless, some changes might
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be needed after upgrading:
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- The utmp daemon has been removed and is not supported by glibc anymore.
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If it has been in use, it should be switched off.
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- Programs using IPv6 have to be recompiled due to incompatible changes in
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sockaddr_in6 by the IPv6 working group.
|
2001-01-13 17:52:03 +01:00
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- The Berkeley db libraries have been removed (for details see ?nssdb).
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2000-10-24 17:36:52 +02:00
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- The format of the locale files has changed, all locales should be
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regenerated with localedef. All statically linked applications which use
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i18n should be recompiled, otherwise they'll not be localized.
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- glibc comes with a number of new applications. For example ldconfig has
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been implemented for glibc, the libc5 version of ldconfig is not needed
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anymore.
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- There's no more K&R compatibility in the glibc headers. The GNU C library
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requires a C compiler that handles especially prototypes correctly.
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2000-10-25 19:30:55 +02:00
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Especially gcc -traditional will not work with glibc headers.
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2000-10-24 17:36:52 +02:00
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Please read also the NEWS file which is the authoritative source for this
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and gives more details for some topics.
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2000-11-01 17:33:25 +01:00
|
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?? The makefiles want to do a CVS commit.
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{UD} Only if you are not specifying the --without-cvs flag at configure
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time. This is what you always have to use if you are checking sources
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directly out of the public CVS repository or you have your own private
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repository.
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2000-11-07 01:26:45 +01:00
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?? When compiling C++ programs, I get a compilation error in streambuf.h.
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{BH} You are using g++ 2.95.2? After upgrading to glibc 2.2, you need to
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apply a patch to the include files in /usr/include/g++, because the fpos_t
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type has changed in glibc 2.2. The patch is at
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http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/gccinclude-glibc-2.2-compat.diff
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?? When recompiling GCC, I get compilation errors in libio.
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2001-01-12 08:29:55 +01:00
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{BH} You are trying to recompile gcc 2.95.2? Use gcc 2.95.2.1 instead.
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This version is needed because the fpos_t type and a few libio internals
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have changed in glibc 2.2, and gcc 2.95.2.1 contains a corresponding patch.
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2000-11-07 01:26:45 +01:00
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2000-11-01 17:33:25 +01:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them
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?? I expect GNU libc to be 100% source code compatible with
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the old Linux based GNU libc. Why isn't it like this?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{DMT,UD} Not every extension in Linux libc's history was well thought-out.
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In fact it had a lot of problems with standards compliance and with
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cleanliness. With the introduction of a new version number these errors can
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now be corrected. Here is a list of the known source code
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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incompatibilities:
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* _GNU_SOURCE: glibc does not make the GNU extensions available
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automatically. If a program depends on GNU extensions or some
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other non-standard functionality, it is necessary to compile it
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with the C compiler option -D_GNU_SOURCE, or better, to put
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`#define _GNU_SOURCE' at the beginning of your source files, before
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any C library header files are included. This difference normally
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manifests itself in the form of missing prototypes and/or data type
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definitions. Thus, if you get such errors, the first thing you
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should do is try defining _GNU_SOURCE and see if that makes the
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problem go away.
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For more information consult the file `NOTES' in the GNU C library
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sources.
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* reboot(): GNU libc sanitizes the interface of reboot() to be more
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compatible with the interface used on other OSes. reboot() as
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implemented in glibc takes just one argument. This argument
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corresponds to the third argument of the Linux reboot system call.
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That is, a call of the form reboot(a, b, c) needs to be changed into
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reboot(c). Beside this the header <sys/reboot.h> defines the needed
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constants for the argument. These RB_* constants should be used
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instead of the cryptic magic numbers.
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* swapon(): the interface of this function didn't change, but the
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prototype is in a separate header file <sys/swap.h>. This header
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file also provides the SWAP_* constants defined by <linux/swap.h>;
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you should use them for the second argument to swapon().
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* errno: If a program uses the variable "errno", then it _must_
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include <errno.h>. The old libc often (erroneously) declared this
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variable implicitly as a side-effect of including other libc header
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files. glibc is careful to avoid such namespace pollution, which,
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in turn, means that you really need to include the header files that
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you depend on. This difference normally manifests itself in the
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form of the compiler complaining about references to an undeclared
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symbol "errno".
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* Linux-specific syscalls: All Linux system calls now have appropriate
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library wrappers and corresponding declarations in various header files.
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This is because the syscall() macro that was traditionally used to
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work around missing syscall wrappers are inherently non-portable and
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error-prone. The following table lists all the new syscall stubs,
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the header-file declaring their interface and the system call name.
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syscall name: wrapper name: declaring header file:
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------------- ------------- ----------------------
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bdflush bdflush <sys/kdaemon.h>
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syslog ksyslog_ctl <sys/klog.h>
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* lpd: Older versions of lpd depend on a routine called _validuser().
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The library does not provide this function, but instead provides
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__ivaliduser() which has a slightly different interface. Simply
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upgrading to a newer lpd should fix this problem (e.g., the 4.4BSD
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lpd is known to be working).
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* resolver functions/BIND: like on many other systems the functions of
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the resolver library are not included in libc itself. There is a
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separate library libresolv. If you get undefined symbol errors for
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symbols starting with `res_*' simply add -lresolv to your linker
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command line.
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* the `signal' function's behavior corresponds to the BSD semantic and
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not the SysV semantic as it was in libc-5. The interface on all GNU
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systems shall be the same and BSD is the semantic of choice. To use
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the SysV behavior simply use `sysv_signal', or define _XOPEN_SOURCE.
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See ?signal for details.
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??getlog Why does getlogin() always return NULL on my Linux box?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} The GNU C library has a format for the UTMP and WTMP file which differs
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from what your system currently has. It was extended to fulfill the needs
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of the next years when IPv6 is introduced. The record size is different and
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some fields have different positions. The files written by functions from
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the one library cannot be read by functions from the other library. Sorry,
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but this is what a major release is for. It's better to have a cut now than
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having no means to support the new techniques later.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? Where are the DST_* constants found in <sys/time.h> on many
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systems?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} These constants come from the old BSD days and are not used anymore
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(libc5 does not actually implement the handling although the constants are
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defined).
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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Instead GNU libc contains zone database support and compatibility code for
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1999-01-20 12:36:34 +01:00
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POSIX TZ environment variable handling. For former is very much preferred
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(see ?tzdb).
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? The prototypes for `connect', `accept', `getsockopt',
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`setsockopt', `getsockname', `getpeername', `send',
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`sendto', and `recvfrom' are different in GNU libc from
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any other system I saw. This is a bug, isn't it?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} No, this is no bug. This version of GNU libc already follows the new
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Single Unix specifications (and I think the POSIX.1g draft which adopted the
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solution). The type for a parameter describing a size is now `socklen_t', a
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new type.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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??kerhdr On Linux I've got problems with the declarations in Linux
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kernel headers.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD,AJ} On Linux, the use of kernel headers is reduced to the minimum. This
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gives Linus the ability to change the headers more freely. Also, user
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Update.
1998-07-20 17:09 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* shlib-versions: Remove definition for libSegFault.
* memory.texi: Comment out the relocating allocator description.
* manual/signal.texi: Remove reference to relocating allocator.
* manual/top-menu.texi: Regenerated.
* posix/fnmatch.c: Implement [: :] and change to recognize
^ as negation only when not _POSIXLY_CORRECT.
* sysdeps/generic/glob.c: Add several optimizations.
* posix/glob.h: Undefine __PMT to prevent warnings.
Reported by Roland McGrath.
* posix/regex.c: Define namespace macros only for _LIBC.
* sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h: Fix typo.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/sigpending.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/sigstack.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/sigwaitinfo.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/syscalls.list: Add sigaltstack,
sigpending, sigqueue, and sigtimedwait.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/sysv4/solaris2/sparc/sparc32/syscall.S: New file.
* timezone/leapseconds: Update from tzdata1998f.
1998-07-18 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>
* stdio/stdio.h [__USE_GNU]: Add prototype for fputs_unlocked.
* stdio/Versions [GLIBC_2.1]: Add fputs_unlocked.
* libio/stdio.h: Fix typo.
1998-07-19 Roland McGrath <roland@baalperazim.frob.com>
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/dl-sysdep.c (_dl_sysdep_start): #if 0 out the
magic memobj port arg parsing stuff. Fix it someday when we are ready
to really use it.
(_dl_sysdep_output): New function, modified from _dl_sysdep_error.
(_dl_sysdep_error, _dl_sysdep_message, _dl_sysdep_fatal): Removed.
1998-07-19 Roland McGrath <roland@baalperazim.frob.com>
* stdio/fputs.c: Add fputs_unlocked as weak alias for fputs.
1998-07-19 Roland McGrath <roland@baalperazim.frob.com>
* sysdeps/posix/sigsuspend.c: Define __sigsuspend with sigsuspend as
a weak alias.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-07-19 Roland McGrath <roland@baalperazim.frob.com>
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/sigcontextinfo.h: New file.
1998-07-19 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makerules (map-file): Don't use $(wildcard) to find the
generated version script, instead look in $(version-maps).
($(common-objpfx)libc.so): Only depend on libc.map if versioning
is used.
* extra-lib.mk ($(objpfx)$(lib).so): Only depend on version script
if versioning is used. Don't use $(wildcard) to find the
generated version script, instead look in $(verson-maps).
1998-07-17 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/generic/segfault.c: Rename GET_EIP to GET_PC. Remove
unused function handle.
* sysdeps/generic/sigcontextinfo.h: Rename GET_EIP to GET_PC.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigcontextinfo.h: Likewise.
* debug/catchsegv.sh: Fix argument processing, quoting and various
typos. Put the crash info always in the current directory. Find
program in $PATH if it contains no directory component.
* Makerules (install-lib.so-versioned,
install-lib.so-unversioned): New variables.
(install-lib-nosubdir): Depend on unversioned libs in
slibdir, not libdir.
1998-07-19 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Make-dist (+tsrcs): Remove references to %-map variables and
*.map files. Add Versions in subdirs.
* Makerules (distinfo-vars): Don't write out %-map variables.
1998-07-20 13:55 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* inet/protocols/rwhod.h: Remove definition of _PATH_RWHODIR.
Include <paths.h> instead.
* sysdeps/generic/paths.h: Define _PATH_RWHODIR.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h: Likewise.
Reported by Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>.
1998-07-17 21:44 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* catgets/open_catalog.c: Strictly check whether catalog file is
larger enough for the data. Reported by Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl.
1998-07-20 19:25:48 +02:00
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programs are now insulated from changes in the size of kernel data
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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structures.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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For example, the sigset_t type is 32 or 64 bits wide in the kernel. In
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glibc it is 1024 bits wide. This guarantees that when the kernel gets a
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bigger sigset_t (for POSIX.1e realtime support, say) user programs will not
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have to be recompiled. Consult the header files for more information about
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the changes.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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Therefore you shouldn't include Linux kernel header files directly if glibc
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has defined a replacement. Otherwise you might get undefined results because
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of type conflicts.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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?? I don't include any kernel headers myself but the compiler
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still complains about redeclarations of types in the kernel
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headers.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} The kernel headers before Linux 2.1.61 and 2.0.32 don't work correctly
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with glibc. Compiling C programs is possible in most cases but C++ programs
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have (due to the change of the name lookups for `struct's) problems. One
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prominent example is `struct fd_set'.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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There might be some problems left but 2.1.61/2.0.32 fix most of the known
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ones. See the BUGS file for other known problems.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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??signal Why don't signals interrupt system calls anymore?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{ZW} By default GNU libc uses the BSD semantics for signal(), unlike Linux
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libc 5 which used System V semantics. This is partially for compatibility
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with other systems and partially because the BSD semantics tend to make
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programming with signals easier.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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There are three differences:
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* BSD-style signals that occur in the middle of a system call do not
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affect the system call; System V signals cause the system call to
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fail and set errno to EINTR.
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* BSD signal handlers remain installed once triggered. System V signal
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handlers work only once, so one must reinstall them each time.
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* A BSD signal is blocked during the execution of its handler. In other
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words, a handler for SIGCHLD (for example) does not need to worry about
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being interrupted by another SIGCHLD. It may, however, be interrupted
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by other signals.
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There is general consensus that for `casual' programming with signals, the
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BSD semantics are preferable. You don't need to worry about system calls
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returning EINTR, and you don't need to worry about the race conditions
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associated with one-shot signal handlers.
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If you are porting an old program that relies on the old semantics, you can
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quickly fix the problem by changing signal() to sysv_signal() throughout.
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Alternatively, define _XOPEN_SOURCE before including <signal.h>.
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For new programs, the sigaction() function allows you to specify precisely
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how you want your signals to behave. All three differences listed above are
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individually switchable on a per-signal basis with this function.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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If all you want is for one specific signal to cause system calls to fail and
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return EINTR (for example, to implement a timeout) you can do this with
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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siginterrupt().
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??string I've got errors compiling code that uses certain string
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functions. Why?
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{AJ} glibc 2.1 has special string functions that are faster than the normal
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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library functions. Some of the functions are additionally implemented as
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1999-01-27 11:14:01 +01:00
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inline functions and others as macros. This might lead to problems with
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existing codes but it is explicitly allowed by ISO C.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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The optimized string functions are only used when compiling with
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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optimizations (-O1 or higher). The behavior can be changed with two feature
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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macros:
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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* __NO_STRING_INLINES: Don't do any string optimizations.
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* __USE_STRING_INLINES: Use assembly language inline functions (might
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increase code size dramatically).
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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Since some of these string functions are now additionally defined as macros,
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code like "char *strncpy();" doesn't work anymore (and is unnecessary, since
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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<string.h> has the necessary declarations). Either change your code or
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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define __NO_STRING_INLINES.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} Another problem in this area is that gcc still has problems on machines
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with very few registers (e.g., ix86). The inline assembler code can require
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almost all the registers and the register allocator cannot always handle
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this situation.
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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One can disable the string optimizations selectively. Instead of writing
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cp = strcpy (foo, "lkj");
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one can write
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cp = (strcpy) (foo, "lkj");
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This disables the optimization for that specific call.
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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?? I get compiler messages "Initializer element not constant" with
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stdin/stdout/stderr. Why?
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{RM,AJ} Constructs like:
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1999-05-16 01:31:55 +02:00
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static FILE *InPtr = stdin;
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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lead to this message. This is correct behaviour with glibc since stdin is
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not a constant expression. Please note that a strict reading of ISO C does
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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not allow above constructs.
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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One of the advantages of this is that you can assign to stdin, stdout, and
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stderr just like any other global variable (e.g. `stdout = my_stream;'),
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which can be very useful with custom streams that you can write with libio
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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(but beware this is not necessarily portable). The reason to implement it
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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this way were versioning problems with the size of the FILE structure.
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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To fix those programs you've got to initialize the variable at run time.
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This can be done, e.g. in main, like:
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1999-05-16 01:31:55 +02:00
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static FILE *InPtr;
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int main(void)
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{
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InPtr = stdin;
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}
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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or by constructors (beware this is gcc specific):
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1999-05-16 01:31:55 +02:00
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static FILE *InPtr;
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static void inPtr_construct (void) __attribute__((constructor));
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static void inPtr_construct (void) { InPtr = stdin; }
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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?? I can't compile with gcc -traditional (or
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-traditional-cpp). Why?
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{AJ} glibc2 does break -traditional and -traditonal-cpp - and will continue
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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to do so. For example constructs of the form:
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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1999-05-16 01:31:55 +02:00
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enum {foo
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#define foo foo
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}
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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are useful for debugging purposes (you can use foo with your debugger that's
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why we need the enum) and for compatibility (other systems use defines and
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check with #ifdef).
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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?? I get some errors with `gcc -ansi'. Isn't glibc ANSI compatible?
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{AJ} The GNU C library is compatible with the ANSI/ISO C standard. If
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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you're using `gcc -ansi', the glibc includes which are specified in the
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
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standard follow the standard. The ANSI/ISO C standard defines what has to be
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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in the include files - and also states that nothing else should be in the
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include files (btw. you can still enable additional standards with feature
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flags).
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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The GNU C library is conforming to ANSI/ISO C - if and only if you're only
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using the headers and library functions defined in the standard.
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1998-01-30 13:53:20 +01:00
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1998-03-24 11:25:31 +01:00
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?? I can't access some functions anymore. nm shows that they do
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exist but linking fails nevertheless.
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1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{AJ} With the introduction of versioning in glibc 2.1 it is possible to
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export only those identifiers (functions, variables) that are really needed
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by application programs and by other parts of glibc. This way a lot of
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internal interfaces are now hidden. nm will still show those identifiers
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but marking them as internal. ISO C states that identifiers beginning with
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an underscore are internal to the libc. An application program normally
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shouldn't use those internal interfaces (there are exceptions,
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e.g. __ivaliduser). If a program uses these interfaces, it's broken. These
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internal interfaces might change between glibc releases or dropped
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completely.
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1998-03-24 11:25:31 +01:00
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2000-01-26 03:20:01 +01:00
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?? When using the db-2 library which comes with glibc is used in
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the Perl db modules the testsuite is not passed. This did not
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happen with db-1, gdbm, or ndbm.
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2000-11-06 08:25:55 +01:00
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{} Removed. Does not apply anymore.
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2000-01-26 03:20:01 +01:00
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1998-08-21 19:22:56 +02:00
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?? The pow() inline function I get when including <math.h> is broken.
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I get segmentation faults when I run the program.
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{UD} Nope, the implementation is correct. The problem is with egcs version
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prior to 1.1. I.e., egcs 1.0 to 1.0.3 are all broken (at least on Intel).
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If you have to use this compiler you must define __NO_MATH_INLINES before
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including <math.h> to prevent the inline functions from being used. egcs 1.1
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fixes the problem. I don't know about gcc 2.8 and 2.8.1.
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1998-11-08 11:40:28 +01:00
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?? The sys/sem.h file lacks the definition of `union semun'.
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{UD} Nope. This union has to be provided by the user program. Former glibc
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versions defined this but it was an error since it does not make much sense
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when thinking about it. The standards describing the System V IPC functions
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define it this way and therefore programs must be adopted.
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1998-11-23 10:48:32 +01:00
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?? Why has <netinet/ip_fw.h> disappeared?
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{AJ} The corresponding Linux kernel data structures and constants are
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1999-01-24 11:17:23 +01:00
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totally different in Linux 2.0 and Linux 2.2. This situation has to be
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1998-11-23 10:48:32 +01:00
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taken care in user programs using the firewall structures and therefore
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those programs (ipfw is AFAIK the only one) should deal with this problem
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themselves.
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1998-12-01 12:25:26 +01:00
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?? I get floods of warnings when I use -Wconversion and include
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<string.h> or <math.h>.
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{ZW} <string.h> and <math.h> intentionally use prototypes to override
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argument promotion. -Wconversion warns about all these. You can safely
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ignore the warnings.
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-Wconversion isn't really intended for production use, only for shakedown
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compiles after converting an old program to standard C.
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1998-03-24 11:25:31 +01:00
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1999-02-11 13:11:01 +01:00
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?? After upgrading to glibc 2.1, I receive errors about
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unresolved symbols, like `_dl_initial_searchlist' and can not
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execute any binaries. What went wrong?
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{AJ} This normally happens if your libc and ld (dynamic linker) are from
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different releases of glibc. For example, the dynamic linker
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/lib/ld-linux.so.2 comes from glibc 2.0.x, but the version of libc.so.6 is
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from glibc 2.1.
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The path /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is hardcoded in every glibc2 binary but
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libc.so.6 is searched via /etc/ld.so.cache and in some special directories
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like /lib and /usr/lib. If you run configure with another prefix than /usr
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and put this prefix before /lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, your system will break.
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So what can you do? Either of the following should work:
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* Run `configure' with the same prefix argument you've used for glibc 2.0.x
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so that the same paths are used.
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* Replace /lib/ld-linux.so.2 with a link to the dynamic linker from glibc
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2.1.
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You can even call the dynamic linker by hand if everything fails. You've
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got to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the corresponding libc is found and also
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need to provide an absolute path to your binary:
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path-where-libc.so.6-lives> \
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<path-where-corresponding-dynamic-linker-lives>/ld-linux.so.2 \
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<path-to-binary>/binary
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For example `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/libold /libold/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/mv ...'
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might be useful in fixing a broken system (if /libold contains dynamic
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linker and corresponding libc).
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With that command line no path is used. To further debug problems with the
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dynamic linker, use the LD_DEBUG environment variable, e.g.
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`LD_DEBUG=help echo' for the help text.
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If you just want to test this release, don't put the lib directory in
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/etc/ld.so.conf. You can call programs directly with full paths (as above).
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When compiling new programs against glibc 2.1, you've got to specify the
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correct paths to the compiler (option -I with gcc) and linker (options
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--dynamic-linker, -L and --rpath).
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1999-03-08 12:05:57 +01:00
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?? bonnie reports that char i/o with glibc 2 is much slower than with
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1999-03-01 08:21:39 +01:00
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libc5. What can be done?
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{AJ} The GNU C library uses thread safe functions by default and libc5 used
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non thread safe versions. The non thread safe functions have in glibc the
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suffix `_unlocked', for details check <stdio.h>. Using `putc_unlocked' etc.
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instead of `putc' should give nearly the same speed with bonnie (bonnie is a
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benchmark program for measuring disk access).
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2000-01-26 03:20:01 +01:00
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?? Programs compiled with glibc 2.1 can't read db files made with glibc
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2.0. What has changed that programs like rpm break?
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2000-11-06 08:25:55 +01:00
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{} Removed. Does not apply anymore.
|
2000-01-26 03:20:01 +01:00
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1999-04-29 20:20:05 +02:00
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?? Autoconf's AC_CHECK_FUNC macro reports that a function exists, but
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when I try to use it, it always returns -1 and sets errno to ENOSYS.
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{ZW} You are using a 2.0 Linux kernel, and the function you are trying to
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use is only implemented in 2.1/2.2. Libc considers this to be a function
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which exists, because if you upgrade to a 2.2 kernel, it will work. One
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such function is sigaltstack.
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Your program should check at runtime whether the function works, and
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implement a fallback. Note that Autoconf cannot detect unimplemented
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functions in other systems' C libraries, so you need to do this anyway.
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|
1999-05-04 14:24:18 +02:00
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?? My program segfaults when I call fclose() on the FILE* returned
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from setmntent(). Is this a glibc bug?
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{GK} No. Don't do this. Use endmntent(), that's what it's for.
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In general, you should use the correct deallocation routine. For instance,
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if you open a file using fopen(), you should deallocate the FILE * using
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fclose(), not free(), even though the FILE * is also a pointer.
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In the case of setmntent(), it may appear to work in most cases, but it
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won't always work. Unfortunately, for compatibility reasons, we can't
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change the return type of setmntent() to something other than FILE *.
|
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|
1999-02-11 13:11:01 +01:00
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1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
|
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|
|
? Miscellaneous
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|
?? After I changed configure.in I get `Autoconf version X.Y.
|
|
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|
|
or higher is required for this script'. What can I do?
|
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|
{UD} You have to get the specified autoconf version (or a later one)
|
1998-03-04 18:14:36 +01:00
|
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|
from your favorite mirror of ftp.gnu.org.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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|
?? When I try to compile code which uses IPv6 headers and
|
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|
|
definitions on my Linux 2.x.y system I am in trouble.
|
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|
Nothing seems to work.
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|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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{UD} The problem is that IPv6 development still has not reached a point
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where the headers are stable. There are still lots of incompatible changes
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|
made and the libc headers have to follow.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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|
1998-11-26 13:02:23 +01:00
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{PB} The 2.1 release of GNU libc aims to comply with the current versions of
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|
all the relevant standards. The IPv6 support libraries for older Linux
|
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|
systems used a different naming convention and so code written to work with
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|
them may need to be modified. If the standards make incompatible changes in
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the future then the libc may need to change again.
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|
IPv6 will not work with a 2.0.x kernel. When kernel 2.2 is released it
|
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|
|
should contain all the necessary support; until then you should use the
|
1998-11-30 14:48:15 +01:00
|
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|
|
latest 2.1.x release you can find. As of 98/11/26 the currently recommended
|
1998-11-26 13:02:23 +01:00
|
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|
kernel for IPv6 is 2.1.129.
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|
Also, as of the 2.1 release the IPv6 API provided by GNU libc is not
|
2000-08-01 01:14:10 +02:00
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100% complete.
|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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|
1999-01-20 12:36:34 +01:00
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|
??tzdb When I set the timezone by setting the TZ environment variable
|
1998-04-09 12:14:17 +02:00
|
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|
|
to EST5EDT things go wrong since glibc computes the wrong time
|
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|
|
from this information.
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|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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|
{UD} The problem is that people still use the braindamaged POSIX method to
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|
select the timezone using the TZ environment variable with a format EST5EDT
|
1999-01-20 12:36:34 +01:00
|
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|
|
or whatever. People, if you insist on using TZ instead of the timezone
|
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|
|
|
database (see below), read the POSIX standard, the implemented behaviour is
|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
|
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|
correct! What you see is in fact the result of the decisions made while
|
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|
|
POSIX.1 was created. We've only implemented the handling of TZ this way to
|
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|
|
be POSIX compliant. It is not really meant to be used.
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The alternative approach to handle timezones which is implemented is the
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|
|
correct one to use: use the timezone database. This avoids all the problems
|
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|
|
the POSIX method has plus it is much easier to use. Simply run the tzselect
|
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|
shell script, answer the question and use the name printed in the end by
|
1999-01-20 12:36:34 +01:00
|
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|
|
making a symlink /etc/localtime pointing to /usr/share/zoneinfo/NAME (NAME
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|
|
is the returned value from tzselect). That's all. You never again have to
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|
worry.
|
1998-04-21 11:43:11 +02:00
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So, please avoid sending bug reports about time related problems if you use
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|
the POSIX method and you have not verified something is really broken by
|
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|
reading the POSIX standards.
|
1998-04-09 12:14:17 +02:00
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1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
|
|
|
|
?? What other sources of documentation about glibc are available?
|
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|
{AJ} The FSF has a page about the GNU C library at
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|
|
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/>. The problem data base of open and
|
|
|
|
|
solved bugs in GNU libc is available at
|
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|
|
|
<http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl>. Eric Green has written
|
2000-01-26 03:07:07 +01:00
|
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|
|
a HowTo for converting from Linux libc5 to glibc2. The HowTo is accessible
|
1998-06-29 14:44:22 +02:00
|
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|
via the FSF page and at <http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc>. Frodo
|
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|
|
Looijaard describes a different way installing glibc2 as secondary libc at
|
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|
<http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/glibc>.
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|
Please note that this is not a complete list.
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|
1998-11-30 14:48:15 +01:00
|
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|
?? The timezone string for Sydney/Australia is wrong since even when
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|
daylight saving time is in effect the timezone string is EST.
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{UD} The problem for some timezones is that the local authorities decided
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|
to use the term "summer time" instead of "daylight saving time". In this
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|
case the abbreviation character `S' is the same as the standard one. So,
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for Sydney we have
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Eastern Standard Time = EST
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Eastern Summer Time = EST
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Great! To get this bug fixed convince the authorities to change the laws
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|
and regulations of the country this effects. glibc behaves correctly.
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1998-12-02 14:44:40 +01:00
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??make I've build make 3.77 against glibc 2.1 and now make gets
|
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|
|
segmentation faults.
|
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|
2000-11-06 08:25:55 +01:00
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{} Removed. Does not apply anymore, use make 3.79 or newer.
|
1998-12-02 14:44:40 +01:00
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1999-12-21 09:10:06 +01:00
|
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|
?? Why do so many programs using math functions fail on my AlphaStation?
|
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|
{AO} The functions floor() and floorf() use an instruction that is not
|
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|
implemented in some old PALcodes of AlphaStations. This may cause
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|
|
`Illegal Instruction' core dumps or endless loops in programs that
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|
catch these signals. Updating the firmware to a 1999 release has
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|
fixed the problem on an AlphaStation 200 4/166.
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|
1999-12-27 21:26:55 +01:00
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?? The conversion table for character set XX does not match with
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what I expect.
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{UD} I don't doubt for a minute that some of the conversion tables contain
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|
|
errors. We tried the best we can and relied on automatic generation of the
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|
|
data to prevent human-introduced errors but this still is no guarantee. If
|
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|
|
you think you found a problem please send a bug report describing it and
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|
give an authoritive reference. The latter is important since otherwise
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|
the current behaviour is as good as the proposed one.
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Before doing this look through the list of known problem first:
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- the GBK (simplified Chinese) encoding is based on Unicode tables. This
|
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|
is good. These tables, however, differ slightly from the tables used
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|
by the M$ people. The differences are these [+ Unicode, - M$]:
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+0xA1AA 0x2015
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+0xA844 0x2014
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-0xA1AA 0x2014
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-0xA844 0x2015
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In addition the Unicode tables contain mappings for the GBK characters
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0xA8BC, 0xA8BF, 0xA989 to 0xA995, and 0xFE50 to 0xFEA0.
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|
1999-12-28 03:59:59 +01:00
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- when mapping from EUC-CN to GBK and vice versa we ignore the fact that
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|
the coded character at position 0xA1A4 maps to different Unicode
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|
characters. Since the iconv() implementation can do whatever it wants
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if it cannot directly map a character this is a perfectly good solution
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since the semantics and appearance of the character does not change.
|
1999-12-27 21:26:55 +01:00
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2000-12-27 04:30:43 +01:00
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|
?? How can I find out which version of glibc I am using in the moment?
|
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|
{UD} If you want to find out about the version from the command line simply
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|
run the libc binary. This is probably not possible on all platforms but
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|
where it is simply locate the libc DSO and start it as an application. On
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Linux like
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/lib/libc.so.6
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This will produce all the information you need.
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What always will work is to use the API glibc provides. Compile and run the
|
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|
|
following little program to get the version information:
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|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
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int main (void) { puts (gnu_get_libc_version ()); return 0; }
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This interface can also obviously be used to perform tests at runtime if
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this should be necessary.
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|
1997-12-05 01:40:29 +01:00
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Answers were given by:
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{UD} Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@cygnus.com>
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{DMT} David Mosberger-Tang, <davidm@AZStarNet.com>
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{EY} Eric Youngdale, <eric@andante.jic.com>
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{PB} Phil Blundell, <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
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{MK} Mark Kettenis, <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>
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{ZW} Zack Weinberg, <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
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{TK} Thorsten Kukuk, <kukuk@suse.de>
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Update.
1998-04-20 18:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* libc.map: Add __dgettext to GLIBC_2.0 and __libc_longjmp, and
__libc_siglongjmp to GLIBC_2.1.
* elf/dl-minimal.c (__assert_perror_fail): Don't use strerror, use
__strerror_r.
* iconv/Makefile: Don't run tests now.
* iconv/iconv_prog.c (process_block): If loop is repeated, call iconv
with correct output buffer.
Major rewrite of the low-level gconv functionality.
* iconv/gconv.c: Rewritten.
* iconv/gconv.h: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_builtin.c: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_builtin.h: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_conf.c: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_int.h: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_open.c: Likewise.
* iconv/gconv_simple.c: Likewise.
* iconv/iconv.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/8bit-gap.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/8bit-generic.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/Makefile: Likewise.
* iconvdata/big5.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643l1.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/cns11643l1.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ebcdic-at-de-a.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ebcdic-at-de.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ebcdic-ca-fr.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/euccn.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/eucjp.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/euckr.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/euctw.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/gb2312.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/gb2312.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/hp-roman8.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso646.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso6937.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-1.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-10.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-2.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-3.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-4.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-5.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-6.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-7.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-8.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/iso8859-9.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0201.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0201.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0208.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0208.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0212.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/jis0212.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/johab.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/koi-8.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/koi8-r.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ksc5601.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/ksc5601.h: Likewise.
* iconvdata/latin-greek-1.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/latin-greek.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/run-iconv-test.sh: Likewise.
* iconvdata/sjis.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/t61.c: Likewise.
* iconvdata/uhc.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/btowc.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbrtowc.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbsnrtowcs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbsrtowcs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcrtomb.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcsmbsload.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcsnrtombs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wcsrtombs.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/wctob.c: Likewise.
* iconv/loop.c: New file.
* iconv/skeleton.c: New file.
* stdlib/mblen.c: Handle empty input string correctly.
* stdlib/mbtowc.c: Likewise.
* posix/getopt.c: Various cleanups.
* sysdeps/arm/bits/setjmp.h: Add copyright text.
* sysdeps/i386/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/m68k/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/bits/setjmp.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/longjmp.c: Rename function to __libc_siglongjmp
and make longjmp weak alias.
1998-04-18 20:29 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
* iconv/Makefile (routines): Only include gconv_dl if building for
an ELF system - dynamic linking is not available on a.out.
(CFLAGS-gconv_conf.c): Define STATIC_GCONV if omitting gconv_dl
due to above check.
* iconv/gconv_db.c: If STATIC_GCONV defined, don't try to call
routines from gconv_dl.
1998-04-17 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* csu/init.c (_IO_stdin_used): Protect with USE_IN_LIBIO so that
we can compile without libio.
1998-04-20 16:28 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/Subdirs: Remove login.
1998-04-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* db2/compat.h: Include <errno.h>, to make sure we get the
definition of EFTYPE before we define it ourselves.
1998-04-10 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* sysdeps/generic/bits/socket.h: Protect against multiple inclusion.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h: Likewise.
Fix typo to allow inclusion from sys/ioctl.h again.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* iconvdata/*.[ch]: Clean up namespace. Optimize character lookup.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* libc.map: Export __strerror_r. Remove _strerror_internal.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/generic/strcasestr.c: Undefine strcasestr, not strstr.
Also undefine __strcasestr.
1998-04-16 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* posix/regex.c: Rename __re_max_failures back to re_max_failures,
aliases do not work with global variables due to copy relocations.
1998-04-20 15:12 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* manual/creature.texi: Fix type. Patch by Andreas Schwab.
1998-04-20 13:47 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* signal/sighold.c: Include stddef.h for NULL definition.
* signal/sigrelse.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/sigignore.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/sigset.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/posix/waitid.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/rt_sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/rt_sigtimedwait.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigwaitinfo.c: Likewise.
* wcsmbs/mbsrtowcs.c: Include stdlib.h for MB_CUR_MAX.
Patch by Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>.
1998-04-13 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>
* login/Makefile (headers): Remove utmpx.h and bits/utmpx.h.
* login/getutent.c (getutxent): Remove alias.
* login/getutent_r.c (setutxent, pututxline, endutxent):
Remove aliases.
* login/getutid.c (getutxid): Remove alias.
* login/getutline.c (getutxline): Remove alias.
* login/utmp.h: Add prototypes for __updwtmp, __getutent,
__getutid, __getutline and __pututline.
* login/utmpx.h: Moved to ...
* sysdeps/gnu/utmpx.h: ... here. [__USE_GNU]: Define UTMPX_FILE,
UTMPX_FILENAME, WTMPX_FILE and WTMPX_FILENAME, declare utmpxname
and updwtmpx.
* login/updwtmp.c: Moved to ...
* sysdeps/generic/updwtmp.c: ... here. (updwtmp): Generalized by
allowing file name transformation.
* sysdeps/gnu/updwtmp.c: New file. Use generic implementation with
additional file name transformation.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/updwtmp.c: Likewise.
* login/utmp_file.c: Moved to ...
* sysdeps/generic/utmp_file.c: ... here. (setutent_file):
Generalized by allowing file name transformation. Do not
print error message. Library functions should not print them.
Reported by Jim Meyering.
* sysdeps/gnu/utmp_file.c: New file. Use generic implementation
with additional file name transformation.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/utmp_file.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile [$(subdir)=login] (sysdep_routines): Add
setutxent, getutxent, endutxent, getutxid, getutxid, getutxline,
pututxline, utmpxname and updwtmpx. (sysdep_headers): Add utmpx.h
and bits/utmpx.h.
* sysdeps/gnu/bits/utmpx.h [__USE_GNU] Include paths.h.
(_PATH_UTMPX): Define to _PATH_UTMP. (_PATH_WTMPX): Define to
_PATH_WTMPX. (RUN_LVL): Define only if __USE_GNU. (ACCOUNTING):
Define if __USE_GNU.
* sysdeps/gnu/setutxent.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/getutxent.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/endutxent.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/getutxid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/getutxline.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/pututxline.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/utmpxname.c: New file.
* sysdeps/gnu/updwtmpx.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h (_PATH_UTMP_DB): Remove.
* sysdeps/generic/bits/utmpx.h: Remove.
1998-04-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* posix/wordexp-test.c (main): Initialize ifs element of ts for
~root test.
1998-04-17 07:53 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/s_pread64.S: Fix a typo.
1998-04-17 11:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* libio/oldfileops.c (_IO_old_file_seekoff): Define temporary st
variable using _G_stat64.
* libio/fileops.c: Remove macro definition of fstat, it is in the
global header.
Reported by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de>.
1998-04-17 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/arm/strlen.S: New file, based on code by Matthew Wilcox
<willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk>.
1998-04-16 Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
* inet/netinet/in.h (IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_NODELOCAL): New macro,
required by IPv6 Basic API.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_LINKLOCAL): Likewise.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_SITELOCAL): Likewise.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_ORGLOCAL): Likewise.
(IN6_IS_ADDR_MC_GLOBAL): Likewise.
1998-04-20 20:41:05 +02:00
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Update.
1998-02-10 23:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Add more tests.
* misc/efgcvt_r.c: Correct result for above new tests.
1998-02-06 17:22 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* misc/efgcvt_r.c (fcvt_r, ecvt_r): Correctly handle
NDIGIT <= 0.
1998-02-10 16:48 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* Makerules (install-no-libc.a-nosubdir): Don't install-bin (etc)
if the programs weren't built.
1998-02-09 10:12 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2.c (__ieee754_exp2): If we don't have
FE_TONEAREST, soldier on regardless and do the best we can.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_exp2f.c (__ieee754_exp2f): likewise.
1998-02-5 17:20 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* sysdeps/standalone/filedesc.h: Define __need_FOPEN_MAX, not
_STDIO_H, before including <bits/stdio_lim.h>.
* sysdeps/standalone/arm/bits/errno.h (EOVERFLOW): Added.
* io/fts.c (fts_build): Don't try to use d_type if it doesn't
exist.
* sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h: New file.
1998-02-04 10:11 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
* manual/stdio.texi (Formatted Output Functions): Explicitly say
that the return value from snprintf() does not count the
terminating NUL as a character.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* manual/users.texi: Rewrite to describe correct POSIX behaviour,
add description for sete[ug]id and general cleanup.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (parent-clean): Don't remove makefile fragments here.
(postclean): New variable.
(clean): Remove makefile fragments here.
(realclean distclean): Likewise. Pass sysdep-subdirs to sub-make.
(generated): Add isomac and isomanc.out.
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)soversions.mk): Don't generate if
avoid-generated is set.
(postclean-generated): Add soversion.mk.
($(common-objpfx)version.mk): Don't include if avoid-generated is
set.
* Makerules: Still need to include $(+sysdir_pfx)sysd-Makefile if
avoid-generated is set.
(common-generated): Add libc.so and libc.so$(libc.so-version).
(generated): Add versioned libraries.
(common-mostlyclean): Also remove %.so and %_pic.a.
* csu/Makefile (generated): Add abi-tag.h.
* db2/Makefile (extra-objs): Add getlong.o.
* elf/Makefile (generated): Add ld.so, ldd and
$(rtld-installed-name).
(others): Add ldconfig here instead of ldconfig.o to extra-objs.
* malloc/Makefile (generated): Add mtrace.
* po/Makefile: Don't include version.mk, not needed any more.
* sunrpc/Makefile (generated): Add rpc-proto.d and rpcgen.
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile: Fix local_lim.h -> bits/local_lim.h,
syscall.h -> sys/syscall.h.
(common-generated): Add s-proto.d.
(postclean-generated): Add sysd-syscalls.
* localedata/Makefile (test-output): Add all output files.
(generated): Add test-input and test-output.
(generated-dirs): Add all the dirs.
1998-01-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile (test-output, generated, generated-dirs): New
variables.
1998-02-10 16:57 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Various code cleanups.
1998-02-09 08:10 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* resolv/gethnamaddr.c (getanswer): Fix the PTR/CNAME bug.
From Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>.
* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c (getanswer_r): Ditto.
1998-02-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* libc.map: Add .rem, .div, .mul, .udiv, .umul, .urem for Sparc.
Suggested by debian/sparc porters.
1998-02-07 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* misc/tst-efgcvt.c: Totally rewritten, added a lot of new tests
for ecvt and fcvt.
1998-02-10 16:32 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Use __xstat and
__fxstat instead of stat and fstat. Use namespace clean __stpcpy.
* signal/signal.h: Always define sigset_t if __need_sigset_t is
defined even if __USE_POSIX is not defined.
1998-02-02 20:51 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Correct last patch
to support obsolete tty major numbers correctly.
1998-02-02 08:47 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* login/Makefile ($(inst_libexecdir)/pt_chown): Make the target
directory first and ignore install error.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptsname.c (__ptsname_r): Substract
128 from ptyno and fix a typo for the BSD style pty.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Depend on all
syscalls.list's.
1998-02-01 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_routines): Add
getresuid and getresgid.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresuid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getresgid.c: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Remove getres[ug]id, add
s_getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscalls.list: Add getres[ug]id.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/syscalls.list: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Likewise.
1998-02-02 08:11 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* nscd/grpcache.c: Include <stdlib.h>.
1998-02-01 16:01 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* stdlib/atoll.c: Fix comments.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname.c: Ignore stdin/stdout/stderr.
* sysdeps/posix/ttyname_r.c: Ditto.
1998-02-03 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* io/sys/stat.h: Define S_IFLNK and S_IFSOCK if __USE_BSD or
__USE_MISC, independent of __USE_UNIX98.
1998-02-10 19:18 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
1998-02-04 11:58 Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.rth.home>
* Makeconfig (CFLAGS-.os): Kill -fno-common.
* Makerules (libc.so): Prelink libc_pic.a, allocating commons.
* libc.map (GLIBC_2.1): Add Linux/Alpha tv64 symbols.
* elf/rtld.map: New file. Needed to define the GLIBC_2.*
version symbols.
* include/libc-symbols.h (symbol_version, default_symbol_version):
Provide asm versions and correct !DO_VERSIONING versions.
* sysdeps/unix/make-syscalls.sh: Recognize version symbols in
the weak symbol list.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c (__libc_missing_rt_sigs):
Rename from __libc_have_rt_sigs and leave as COMMON data.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigpending.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigprocmask.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigsuspend.c: Likewise.
1998-02-04 16:41 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
* sunrpc/Makefile: Correct dependencies of rpcgen.
1998-02-10 03:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@happy.cygnus.com>
* nscd/Makefile: Fix test for available linuxthreads add-on.
Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>.
1998-02-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Fix typo in lchown.
1998-02-03 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/gnu/Makefile: Respect with-cvs variable.
* manual/errno.texi (Error Messages): Correct description of
strerror_r. Pointed out by jonas@bagge.se.
1998-01-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* manual/socket.texi (Host Address Functions): Clarify description
of inet_network.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/grantpt.c (argv): Move const to toplevel.
(grantpt): Delete superfluous cast.
1998-02-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/libc-$(version).so): Depend on
elf/ldso_install instead of elf/subdir_install.
(elf/ldso_install): New target.
* elf/Makefile (ldso_install): New target.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/socket.S: Really do the change
of 1998-01-06.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/bits/string2.h (strcmp): Use __string2_1bptr_p only for
constant expressions.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* nss/test-netdb.c: Include <unistd.h> for gethostname and "nss.h"
for __nss_configure_lookup.
(output_hostent): Remove unused variable.
1998-02-07 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* string/tst-inlcall.c: Fix format string.
1998-02-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* inet/netinet/in.h: Rename second parameter of bindresvport to
avoid buggy gcc warning. [PR libc/412]
1998-02-10 21:06:30 +01:00
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