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authorJakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>2005-07-08 09:10:42 +0000
committerJakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>2005-07-08 09:10:42 +0000
commit48f006fc656c70757103dc9efa92d5775717576b (patch)
tree49d57e1205b93471c3245fceab5dd5ac31ba743d /manual
parent03d65262fdcc287ef8b691c7dff2f1a63cdd13c2 (diff)
Updated to fedora-glibc-20050708T0811
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diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi
index 15fe9a85b4..dee5c9b6b6 100644
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@@ -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