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libc 5.2.16 is released.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Dec 9 02:24:07 1995
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 00:28:31 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
Subject: libc 5.2.16 is released.
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Hi, Gals and Guys,
This is the public release of the Linux C library release 5.2.16.
Please read the ChangeLog for details regarding changes/bug fixes.
DISTRIBUTION SITES:
The primary FTP sites for the compiler/C library are:
* ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC
* ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC
DISTRIBUTION FILES:
1. libc-5.2.16.bin.tar.gz
REQUIRED. This package contains the header files for libc, shared and
static ELF libraries libc and libm, and the static ELF library libbsd.a.
The header files in libc-5.2.16.bin.tar.gz are not complete. You need to
install the kernel source tree for the system-dependent header files.
The header files are in lib-x.y.z.bin.tar.gz and libc-x.y.z.tar.gz. You
can do
# gzip -dc lib-x.y.z.bin.tar.gz | tar xvvf - usr/include
to extract the header files without the binaries files. A separate
tar file for the header files may cause unnecessary confusion.
2. libc-5.2.16.tar.gz
Source tree for libc and header files.
3. libc-5.0.9-5.2.16.diff.gz
Context diffs against the source tree from the previous libc release.
It assumes you have the "libc" tree and the "include" tree in the
same directory. The -E option is recommended for patch.
MISSING LIBRARIES:
The only libraries included in this package are the Linux C library,
libc and the math library, libm.
ELF versions of libraries formerly included in the libc package can be
found at the following FTP sites:
* gdbm ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/db/gdbm-1.7.3-ELF.tar.gz
* db ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/db/db-1.85.2.bin.tar.gz
* curses (site forthcoming)
* termcap (site forthcoming)
Gertjan van Wingerde (gertjan@cs.vu.nl) maintains the ELF db package.
Christopher Wiles (wileyc@moscow.com) maintains the ELF gdbm package.
NOTE: I strongly suggest using ncurses to replace curses/termcap. The
current ncurses supports ELF.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
* kernel 1.1.92 or above. It may work with an older kernel if the QMAGIC
format is supported. If you use the kernel 1.3.x, you should
upgrade to 1.3.40 or above. Otherwise readv/writev system calls
won't work right.
* gcc-2.7.2 or above and binutils 2.6.0.2 or above.
* ld.so-1.7.10 or above.
* libg++ 2.7.1.3 or above. This is only necessary for development
using c++.
BINARY INSTALLATION:
Ensure that /usr/include/asm and /usr/include/linux are a symlinks to
their counterparts in the kernel source tree. For example, if your kernel
source resides within /usr/src/linux, execute:
ln -s -f /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm
ln -s -f /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux
As some programs need <linux/autoconf.h>, the following two commands may
be necessary to generate that header file:
cd /usr/src/linux
make config
Verify that /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp exist. Replace all other
occurances of utmp and wtmp (/etc/utmp, for example) with symlinks.
Assuming the libc binary tarfile is in /, and as root, execute:
cd /
rm -f /usr/lib/libc.so /usr/lib/libm.so
rm -f /usr/include/iolibio.h /usr/include/iostdio.h
rm -f /usr/include/ld_so_config.h /usr/include/localeinfo.h
rm -rf /usr/include/netinet /usr/include/net /usr/include/pthread
tar -xzf libc-5.2.16.bin.tar.gz
SOURCE INSTALLATION:
Unpack the libc source tarfile in your source directory. Refer to the
README for compilation instructions.
COMPATIBILITY NOTES:
There is no support for a.out libraries in this source tree. The latest
version of the a.out library suite is libc-4.7.5, which can be obtained
from one of the ftp sites listed below.
The structure DIR, defined in sysdeps/linux/dirstream.h, was changed in
release 5.2.0. If you upgrade from release 5.1.4 or earlier to release
5.2.0 or later, you must reboot after installing the new libraries. If
you compile your own library, *do not* "make install". Instead, copy the
new libc.so* to /lib, do "ldconfig -v", reboot, then do "make install"
A dirent bug, which erroneously defined d->reclen to d->namlen if USE_GNU
was defined, has been fixed. Unfortunately, some GNU packages depend on
this bug. GNU make 3.xx is one of them. A patch is included here.
Please recompile GNU make before installing this library. Otherwise
you have to use "make -f Makefile" to specify which Makefile to
use when rebuilding GNU make.
A back door has been added for the file descriptor in DIR. You need to
define DIRENT_ILLEGAL_ACCESS to access the dd_fd field. You should use
dirfd () to get the the file descriptor in DIR. Use this at your own
risk.
A new dirent bug is fixed. The ELF nfsd should work fine.
<iostdio.h> and <iolibio.h> have been removed.
PTHREAD NOTES:
The MIT pthread library 1.60 beta2 seems to work. It passed most of tests
in the MIT pthread package. The pthread libraries are not installed by
default, nor are binaries included. You may want to remove "-g" from the
default CFLAGS for the pthread library. You need to install the libraries
"elfshared/libpthread.so.1.60.beta2" and "elfstatic/libpthread.a" in
either /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib manually. You must run ldconfig after
installing them.
To compile pthread programs, you need to add -D_MIT_POSIX_THREADS to
CFLAGS and -lpthread to LDFLAGS. The network _r functions are still
missing.
Due to the implementation of the pthread library, pthread only works
with the shared libpthread.
NYS NOTES:
NYS binaries are not provided this time. NYS 0.27.4 is included in the
source tree as a compile-time option. Please consult README.nys and other
applicable NYS documents before attempting NYS installation. I disabled
DBM for NYS. Some changes are needed to support non-builtin dbm.
INFORMATION/DOCUMENTATION:
ELF related WWW pages:
* http://www.intac.com/~cully/elf.html
* http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/users/barlow/elf.html
* http://www.blackdown.org/elf/elf.html
ELF documentation:
* ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC/elf.ps.gz
* ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC/elf.latex.tar.gz
* ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC/ELF.doc.tar.gz
H.J.
hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu
12/02/95
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RCS file: /home/cvs/gnu/make/dir.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -c -r1.1.1.1 dir.c
*** 1.1.1.1 1995/06/25 03:27:16
- --- dir.c 1995/06/25 03:55:22
***************
*** 20,26 ****
#if defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
#include <dirent.h>
! #ifndef __GNU_LIBRARY__
#define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
#else /* GNU C library. */
#define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
- --- 20,26 ----
#if defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
#include <dirent.h>
! #ifndef __BAD_GNU_LIBRARY__
#define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
#else /* GNU C library. */
#define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/gnu/make/glob/glob.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -c -r1.1.1.1 glob.c
*** 1.1.1.1 1995/06/25 03:27:18
- --- glob/glob.c 1995/06/25 03:56:01
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*** 64,70 ****
#if defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
#include <dirent.h>
! #ifndef __GNU_LIBRARY__
#define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
#else /* GNU C library. */
#define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
- --- 64,70 ----
#if defined (POSIX) || defined (HAVE_DIRENT_H) || defined (__GNU_LIBRARY__)
#include <dirent.h>
! #ifndef __BAD_GNU_LIBRARY__
#define D_NAMLEN(d) strlen((d)->d_name)
#else /* GNU C library. */
#define D_NAMLEN(d) ((d)->d_namlen)
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