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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-03-25 15:21:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-03-25 15:21:09 +0000 |
| commit | 68b506045507245594280b53e1ccdd425bc0a6a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3522b722dd47ae4016b2e43b3349e1e45a288439 /manual/install.texi | |
| parent | 0669867278c8e633bf5c3e52ded6ea3a2e0034f9 (diff) | |
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Update.
1998-03-25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * glibcbug.in: Create files safely when mktemp is not available. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/adjtime.c: Make weak alias appear again. Patch by a sun <asun@saul1.u.washington.edu>. 1998-03-25 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de> * libc.map: Rename getname to getnetname. 1998-03-25 13:35 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * manual/maint.texi: Use supported platform in examples. * manual/install.texi: Document some installation tips. 1998-03-25 10:56 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * posix/wordexp.c: Fix some memory leaks and makes $* more efficient. Fix a bug so that it returns an error if a numeric parameter is unset and WRDE_UNDEF is set. Patch by Andreas Schwab and Tim Waugh. * posix/wordexp-test.c: Add new new test. 1998-03-25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * posix/regex.c (regex_compile): Last patch wasn't entirely correct. Patch by Alain Magloire <alainm@rcsm.ece.mcgill.ca>. 1998-03-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> * manual/filesys.texi (Scanning Directory Content): Fix typo. 1998-03-25 09:24 Bernd Schmidt <crux@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> * sysdeps/i386/bits/string.h: Fix all assembler statements so that clobbered registers don't appear as operands.
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diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index e1d20868a6..3313bf0f38 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ @menu * Tools for Installation:: We recommend using these tools to build. * Supported Configurations:: What systems the GNU C library runs on. +* Tips for Installation:: Useful hints for the installation. * Reporting Bugs:: How to report bugs (if you want to get them fixed) and other troubles you may have with the GNU C library. @@ -325,6 +326,39 @@ sun4-solaris2.@var{n} sun4-sunos5.@var{n} sun4-sunos4.@var{n} sun4 @end smallexample +@node Tips for Installation +@appendixsec Useful hints for the installation + +There are a some more or less obvious methods one should know when +compiling GNU libc: + +@itemize @bullet +@item +Better never compile in the source directory. Create a new directory +and run the @file{configure} from there. Everything should happen +automagically. + +@item +You can use the @code{-j} option of GNU make by changing the line +specifying @code{PARALLELMAKE} in the Makefile generated during the +configuration. + +It is not useful to start the @code{make} process using the @code{-j} +option since this option is not propagated down to the sub-@code{make}s. + +@item +If you made some changes after a complete build and only want to check +these changes run @code{make} while specifying the list of subdirs it +has to visit. + +@smallexample +make subdirs="nss elf" +@end smallexample + +The above build run will only visit the subdirectories @file{nss} and +@file{elf}. Beside this it updates the @file{libc} files itself. +@end itemize + @node Reporting Bugs @appendixsec Reporting Bugs @cindex reporting bugs |