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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index e81af07f09..bcf57b1bd4 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ build the GNU C library: * GNU `binutils' 2.13 or later You must use GNU `binutils' (as and ld) to build the GNU C library. - No other assembler and linker has the necessary functionality in - the moment. + No other assembler or linker has the necessary functionality at the + moment. * GNU `texinfo' 3.12f @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ build the GNU C library: If you change any of the `configure.in' files you will also need - * GNU `autoconf' 2.12 or higher + * GNU `autoconf' 2.53 or higher and if you change any of the message translation files you will need @@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ following patterns: s390x-*-linux sparc-*-linux sparc64-*-linux + x86_64-*-linux Former releases of this library (version 2.1 and/or 2.0) used to run on the following configurations: @@ -448,11 +449,22 @@ kernel you can get your hands on. An alternate tactic is to unpack the 2.2 kernel and run `make config' as above; then, rename or delete `/usr/include', create a new -`/usr/include', and make the usual symbolic links of -`/usr/include/linux' and `/usr/include/asm' into the 2.2 kernel -sources. You can then configure glibc with no special options. This -tactic is recommended if you are upgrading from libc5, since you need -to get rid of the old header files anyway. +`/usr/include', and make symbolic links of `/usr/include/linux' and +`/usr/include/asm' into the kernel sources. You can then configure +glibc with no special options. This tactic is recommended if you are +upgrading from libc5, since you need to get rid of the old header files +anyway. + + After installing GNU libc, you may need to remove or rename +`/usr/include/linux' and `/usr/include/asm', and replace them with +copies of `include/linux' and `include/asm-$ARCHITECTURE' taken from +the Linux source package which supplied kernel headers for building the +library. ARCHITECTURE will be the machine architecture for which the +library was built, such as `i386' or `alpha'. You do not need to do +this if you did not specify an alternate kernel header source using +`--with-headers'. The intent here is that these directories should be +copies of, *not* symlinks to, the kernel headers used to build the +library. Note that `/usr/include/net' and `/usr/include/scsi' should *not* be symlinks into the kernel sources. GNU libc provides its own versions |