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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1996-10-17 01:51:38 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1996-10-17 01:51:38 +0000
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Thu Oct 17 01:55:34 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sunrpc/Makefile ($(objpfx)rpcsvc/%.h, $(objpfx)x%.c): Write
	output to $@T and move to $@ later since the new rpcgen will not
	overwrite existing files.

	* po/Makefile (libc.pot): Fix typo.

Sun Oct 13 20:52:07 1996  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de>

	Update rpcgen program to TI-rpc code.
	* sunrpc/Makefile (rpcgen-objs): Add rpc_tblout.o and rpc_sample.o.
	(distribute): Add proto.h.
	* sunrpc/proto.h: New file.  Prototypes for all the RPC functions.
	* sunrpc/rpc_clntout.c: Change to allow generation of ISO C code.
	* sunrpc/rpc_cout.c: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_hout.c: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_main.c: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_parse.c: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_parse.h: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_scan.c: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_scan.h: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_svcout.c: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_util.c: Likewise.
	* sunrpc/rpc_util.h: Likewise.

	* sunrpc/rpc_tblout.c: New file.
	* sunrpc/rpc_sample.c: Likewise.

Thu Oct 17 00:26:20 1996  NIIBE Yutaka  <gniibe@mri.co.jp>

	* sysdeps/unix/opendir.c: Add semicolon for consistency.

Wed Oct 16 12:26:53 1996  Sven Verdoolaege  <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>

	* locale/progams/localedef.c (main): Test with -1 to find out
 	whether read failed.

Wed Oct 16 14:54:59 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S: Use JUMPTARGET and
 	PSEUDO_END macro.

Tue Oct 15 21:27:42 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/sigcontext.h: Removed.

Tue Oct 15 15:52:29 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/clone.S: Add CALL_MCOUNT.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/mmap.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/sigreturn.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/socket.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/sysdep.S (__errno_location):
	Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/syscall.S: Likewise.
	Correct generation of system call.

Tue Oct 15 15:13:16 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* Makerules (sysd-Makefile): Fix command so that it works in the
	subdirectories.
	(BUILD_CFLAGS): Change back using $(..) instead of
	$(common-objpfx), the latter fails in the toplevel directory when
	$(objdir) is relative.
	(common-objdir-compile): Run compiler in $(objdir).
	* sysdeps/posix/Makefile (mk-stdiolim): Likewise.

Tue Oct 15 23:39:48 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* string/string.h [__USE_SVID]: Add prototype for swab.
	* time/sys/time.h [__USE_BSD]: Add prototype for ualarm.
	Reported by Andreas Jaeger.

	The available nlist implementation is not generally usable.
  	Especially on the currently supported ELF systems the nlist
 	function comes with the libelf.
	* misc/Makefile (headers): Remove nlist.h.
	(routines): Remove nlist.

	* Makefile ($(objpfx)version-info.h): Include information about
	system the libc is built on in version-info.h file.

	* po/Makefile (distribute): Add header.pot.

Tue Oct 15 16:34:15 1996  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.pfalz.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sleep.c: Include file with prototype.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/reboot.c: Likewise.
	* misc/error.c: Likewise.

Tue Oct 15 22:41:27 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscalls.list: Add {get,set}resuid.

Tue Oct 15 08:06:02 1996  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.pfalz.de>

	* crypt/Makefiel (rpath-link): Extend search path to current directory.

Fri Oct 11 09:18:06 1996  Sven Verdoolaege  <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>

	* sysdeps/i386/i586/strlen.S: Correct handling of prolog for
	aligning pointer.

Tue Oct 15 02:13:21 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* stdio-common/vfprintf.c: Don't declare __flockfile as weak.

	* crypt/md5-crypt.c (md5_crypt_r): Add cast to prevent warning.

Sun Oct 13 19:16:10 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/sysdep.h (POUND): Macro removed,
	replaced by `&'.
	(PSEUDO_END): Provide definition to use .size directive.
	(PSEUDO): Don't interpret negative return values less than -128 as
	syscall error.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/syscall.S (syscall): Likewise.

	* sysdeps/m68k/bsd-_setjmp.S: Use PSEUDO_END macro to provide
	.size directive.
	* sysdeps/m68k/bsd-setjmp.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/mmap.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/sigreturn.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/socket.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/syscall.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/sysdep.S: Use PSEUDO_END instead of
	explicit .size directive.

	* libio/iogets.c: Warn when gets is used.
cd	* time/strptime.c: Recognize %s, %u, %g, and %G format.
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@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ change the `specs' file of your gcc.  This file is normally found at
 
 In this file you have to change a few things:
 
-- change `ld-linux.so.1' to `ld.so.1'
+- change `ld-linux.so.1' to `ld.so.1' (or to ld-linux.so.2, see below)
 
 - remove all expression `%{...:-lgmon}';  there is no libgmon in glibc
 
@@ -517,6 +517,16 @@ example the gcc-2.7.2 specs file when GNU libc is installed at
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+The above is currently correct for all systems but ix86/Linux.
+Because of compatibility issues on this platform the dynamic linker
+must have a different name: ld-linux.so.2.  So you have to replace
+
+	%{!dynamic-linker:-dynamic-linker=/home/gnu/lib/ld.so.1}
+by
+	%{!dynamic-linker:-dynamic-linker=/home/gnu/lib/ld-linux.so.2}
+
+in the above example specs file.
+
 Future versions of GCC will automatically provide the correct specs.