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-This directory contains the version 2.3.5 release of the GNU C Library.
+This directory contains the version 2.3.6 release of the GNU C Library.
Many bugs have been fixed since the last release.
Some bugs surely remain.
-Please note that version 2.3.5 cannot be built with GCC 4!
-The next release will be compatible with the newer compiler.
-
As of this release, the GNU C library is known to run on the following
configurations:
@@ -31,6 +28,10 @@ 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.
+This release can be compiled using GCC 4.0, but you should expect many more
+compiler warnings than using GCC 3.4. The development version of libc is
+better suited to being built with the most recent GCC versions.
+
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
the libc source tree. Simply get the add-ons you need and use the