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diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 15fe9a85b4..dee5c9b6b6 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -14,15 +14,7 @@ installation. It is updated more frequently than this manual. Features can be added to GNU Libc via @dfn{add-on} bundles. These are separate tar files, which you unpack into the top level of the source tree. Then you give @code{configure} the @samp{--enable-add-ons} option -to activate them, and they will be compiled into the library. As of the -2.2 release, one important component of glibc is distributed as -``official'' add-ons: the linuxthreads add-on. Unless you are doing an -unusual installation, you should get this. - -Support for POSIX threads is maintained by someone else, so it's in a -separate package. It is only available for GNU/Linux systems, but this will -change in the future. Get it from the same place you got the main -bundle; the file is @file{glibc-linuxthreads-@var{VERSION}.tar.gz}. +to activate them, and they will be compiled into the library. You will need recent versions of several GNU tools: definitely GCC and GNU Make, and possibly others. @xref{Tools for Compilation}, below. @@ -107,7 +99,7 @@ Enable add-on packages in your source tree. If this option is specified with no list, it enables all the add-on packages it finds. If you do not wish to use some add-on packages that you have present in your source tree, give this option a list of the add-ons that you @emph{do} want -used, like this: @samp{--enable-add-ons=linuxthreads} +used, like this: @samp{--enable-add-ons=nptl} @item --enable-kernel=@var{version} This option is currently only useful on GNU/Linux systems. The |