Update ports README file.

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2012-02-07 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* README: Update.
2012-02-07 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* README: Document use of ranges in copyright notices.

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architecture, to be selected using --with-cpu.
The ports repository is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the
<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in the glibc CVS as a
module called "ports". See http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/resources.html
for details on using CVS. To report a bug in code housed in the ports
repository, please go to http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug
report under the glibc "ports" component.
<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in a separate
ports git repository. See
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html for details on using
git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports repository, please
go to http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under
the glibc "ports" component.
An add-on for an individual port can be made from just the sysdeps/
subdirectories containing the port's code. You may want to include a
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generated by Autoconf from sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure.in, and follow the
rules for glibc add-on configure fragments. No preconfigure file should do
anything on an unrelated configuration, so that disparate ports can be put
into a single add-on without interfering with each other.
into a single add-on without interfering with each other. Files that
would go in scripts/data/ for libc go in data/ in ports.
Like all glibc add-ons, this must be used by specifying the directory in
the --enable-add-ons option when running glibc's configure script.