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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-11-28 17:07:39 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-11-28 17:07:39 +0000
commitb54eb3cb0a4325975d9b82709865a055bc8da910 (patch)
treee8c89a5df4d1c0c3d5be373d2da16035236434cd
parente3c6aa3a5848a1beff925eba9a58e4e7c7463297 (diff)
Add more NEWS items for 2.17.
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Version 2.17
14797, 14801, 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828,
14831, 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871.
+* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
+ of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
+
* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
@@ -51,6 +54,13 @@ Version 2.17
New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
+* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
+ bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
+
+* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
+ distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
+ information in --help and --version output.
+
* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.