Who is doing the libc6 package? It would be interesting to see how
much of our stuff builds and runs off of this, and how much trouble
it has with shadow password, etc.
It also changes the format of some configuration files, I fear. I noticed
a different format for the resolver configuration file. We should figure
out what we are doing about that.
Thanks
Bruce
From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I'm pleased to announce the next test release of the GNU C library.
Again my errors are fixed and many enchancements were implemented.
The complete sources are available at
ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu
The bad news is that this release does not work for Hurd yet. We hope
that future versions will not have this problem anymore but in the
moment there are a few problems.
The main changes:
- the building process should now run faster when a separate building
directory is used. Andreas Schwab changed the Makefiles so that they
create subdirs according to the structure of the sources. This
avoids the huge directory which was used before.
- the add-on mechanism should now work correctly. Using this technique
one can add additional code which is compiled as part of glibc. This
can also be used to overwrite code from the original glibc sources.
Currently two add-ons are available:
* crypt, Michael Glad UFC package
* LinuxThreads by Xavier Leroy
Both packages are available together with the sources. Simply unpack
the sources in the glibc toplevel dir and run configure with the
--enable-add-ons option.
IMPORTANT!!! Do *not* download the crypt package from the FSF server
when you are outside the US or Canada. I have made all files (the
libc and the add-ons) also available on
ftp://i44ftp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/linux/libc/glibc-pre2
- enchanced thread support for Linux. In fact I expect that we are
close to a thread safe libc. The hooks for glibc are available when
the LinuxThreads add-on is available. Some tests already run but
the stdio implementation still has a few problem (partly caused by
the not yet finished thread library).
- more and better message translations available
For more details please look through the changes.
The situation for ports other than to Hurd or Linux didn't changed.
There is still nobody interested in seeing glibc-2.0 on other
platforms.
As alawys, send comments or bug reports to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please always include the output of a run of the libc.so object in the
mail (yes, executing the libc shared library itself produces some
output).
Thanks,
-- Uli
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