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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4b3a977238..809bf398e7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-11-27 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-11-28 Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Version 2.2.1 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case). Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper. + +* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset), + IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset). + Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>. Version 2.2 @@ -118,24 +122,25 @@ Recommended Tools for Compilation least the following versions of the GNU tools (the : * The Cygnus toolchain snapshot for the ia64 as of August 4 - including the provided set of patches. + including the provided set of patches. It is however recommend + you use the October 24 toolchain snapshot or a more recent version. OR alternatively you can try the following (the Cygnus toolchain is the recommended solution): * GCC and binutils, GAS and GNU LD out of CVS from - sources.redhat.com as of August 28, 2000 or later. The CVS tree + sources.redhat.com as of August 28, 2000 or later. The CVS tree may require special patches to work properly on the ia64. Configuring and compiling GNU Libc for Linux/ia64 ================================================= The library requires Linux kernel version 2.4.0-test4-000728 or -later to funtion properly. Besides that it currently does not have -support for debug and profiling libraries. Hence the following options +later to funtion properly. Besides that it support for debug libraries +is currently untested. Hence the following options are required for configuring the library: - --disable-debug --disable-profile --enable-kernel=2.4.0 + --disable-debug --enable-kernel=2.4.0 It is also important that you make sure the library picks up the appropriate kernel header files, if you do not have recent enough @@ -146,7 +151,6 @@ kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include, you should use the the library: --disable-debug - --disable-profile --disable-cvs --enable-kernel=2.4.0 --host=ia64-linux @@ -158,7 +162,7 @@ the library: Good luck Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>, -August 28th, 2000 +November 14th, 2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 2.1.3 |