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diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 8d655fdaab..6173922ad5 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -562,7 +562,11 @@ gcc 2.95.x does not work correctly on mips-linux. You need also recent binutils, anything before and including 2.10 will not work correctly. Either try the Linux binutils 2.10.0.33 from HJ Lu or the -current development version from CVS of binutils. +current development version of binutils from CVS. + +Please note that `make check' might fail for a number of the math tests +because of problems of the FPU emulation in the Linux kernel (the MIPS FPU +doesn't handle all cases and needs help from the kernel). For details check also my page <http://www.suse.de/~aj/glibc-mips.html>. diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index 666965aa4d..bdaa1274e6 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -371,7 +371,11 @@ gcc 2.95.x does not work correctly on mips-linux. You need also recent binutils, anything before and including 2.10 will not work correctly. Either try the Linux binutils 2.10.0.33 from HJ Lu or the -current development version from CVS of binutils. +current development version of binutils from CVS. + +Please note that `make check' might fail for a number of the math tests +because of problems of the FPU emulation in the Linux kernel (the MIPS FPU +doesn't handle all cases and needs help from the kernel). For details check also my page <http://www.suse.de/~aj/glibc-mips.html>. |