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| author | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-11-28 17:07:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-11-28 17:07:39 +0000 |
| commit | b54eb3cb0a4325975d9b82709865a055bc8da910 (patch) | |
| tree | e8c89a5df4d1c0c3d5be373d2da16035236434cd | |
| parent | e3c6aa3a5848a1beff925eba9a58e4e7c7463297 (diff) | |
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Add more NEWS items for 2.17.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 196ae300db..eb35f9d5b9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Version 2.17 14797, 14801, 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871. +* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory + of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately. + * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro. * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x. @@ -51,6 +54,13 @@ Version 2.17 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself; this is the default if --disable-nscd is used. +* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and + bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc. + +* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for + distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version + information in --help and --version output. + * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. |