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authorRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>2004-12-19 09:41:58 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>2004-12-19 09:41:58 +0000
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* version.h (VERSION): 2.3.4.
* README.template: Various updates. * README: Regenerated. * NEWS: Mention ports. * README-alpha: File removed.
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@@ -21,39 +21,12 @@ configurations:
s390-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on IBM S/390
s390x-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on IBM S/390 64-bit
sh-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.x on Super Hitachi
- cris-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on CRIS
x86-64-*-linux-gnu Linux-2.4+ on x86-64
-Former releases of this library (version 1.09.1 and perhaps earlier
-versions) used to run on the following configurations:
-
- alpha-dec-osf1
- i[3456]86-*-bsd4.3
- i[3456]86-*-isc2.2
- i[3456]86-*-isc3
- i[3456]86-*-sco3.2
- i[3456]86-*-sco3.2v4
- i[3456]86-*-sysv
- i[3456]86-*-sysv4
- i[3456]86-force_cpu386-none
- i[3456]86-sequent-bsd
- i960-nindy960-none
- m68k-hp-bsd4.3
- m68k-mvme135-none
- m68k-mvme136-none
- m68k-sony-newsos3
- m68k-sony-newsos4
- m68k-sun-sunos4
- mips-dec-ultrix4
- mips-sgi-irix4
- sparc-sun-solaris2
- sparc-sun-sunos4
-
-Since no one has volunteered to test and fix the above configurations,
-these are not supported at the moment. It's expected that these don't
-work anymore. Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested
-in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers by sending
-electronic mail to <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
+Past releases of this library ran on a variety of configurations that are
+no longer supported. Porting the library is not hard. If you are
+interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers;
+see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for more information.
There are some add-ons which can be used together with GNU libc. They
are designed in a way to ease the installation by integrating them in
@@ -76,11 +49,9 @@ The file NOTES contains a description of the feature-test macros used
in the GNU C library, explaining how you can tell the library what
facilities you want it to make available.
-We prefer to get bug reports sent using the `glibcbug' shell script which
-is installed together with the rest of the GNU libc to <bugs@gnu.org>.
-Simply run this shell script and fill in the information. Nevertheless
-you can still send bug reports to <bug-glibc@gnu.org> as normal electronic
-mails.
+Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug reporting
+information. We are now using the Bugzilla system to track all bug reports.
+This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly.
The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require