summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/manual
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-04-21 09:43:11 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-04-21 09:43:11 +0000
commitf12944ec15f451d0d1ea77cadb9ff40350075884 (patch)
tree11e7427c96ad92eb1c4cd6ef4e75f56bf332d621 /manual
parent8619129f3f0d5a9db6208be5bae6c2a8c9ce61a5 (diff)
Update.
1998-04-21 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * ptlongjmp.c: Add prorotypes for __libc_siglongjmp and __libc_longjmp.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
-rw-r--r--manual/install.texi22
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi
index f57bb17d71..716c2b9f46 100644
--- a/manual/install.texi
+++ b/manual/install.texi
@@ -103,6 +103,20 @@ sources. To use them, unpack them into your source tree, and give
If you do not wish to use some add-on package 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=crypt,linuxthreads}
+
+@item --with-headers=DIRECTORY
+Search only DIRECTORY and the C compiler's private directory for header
+files not found in the libc sources. @file{/usr/include} will not be
+searched if this option is given. On Linux, DIRECTORY should be the
+kernel's private include directory (usually
+@file{/usr/src/linux/include}).
+
+This option is primarily of use on a system where the headers in
+@file{/usr/include} come from an older version of glibc. Conflicts can
+occasionally happen in this case. Note that Linux libc5 qualifies as an
+older version of glibc. You can also use this option if you want to
+compile glibc with a newer set of kernel headers than the ones found in
+@file{/usr/include}.
@end table
You should not build the library in the same directory as the sources,
@@ -150,12 +164,18 @@ Some of the machine-dependent code for some machines uses extensions in
the GNU C compiler, so you may need to compile the library with GCC.
(In fact, all of the existing complete ports require GCC.)
-
To build the library and related programs, type @code{make}. This will
produce a lot of output, some of which may look like errors from
@code{make} (but isn't). Look for error messages from @code{make}
containing @samp{***}. Those indicate that something is really wrong.
+The compilation process takes several hours even on fast hardware;
+expect at least two hours for the default configuration on i586 for
+Linux. For Hurd times are much longer. All current releases of GCC
+have a problem which causes them to take several minutes to compile
+certain files in the iconvdata directory. Do not panic if the compiler
+appears to hang.
+
To build and run some test programs which exercise some of the library
facilities, type @code{make check}. This will produce several files
with names like @file{@var{program}.out}.