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| 1 This directory contains the sources of the GNU C Library. |
| 2 See the file "version.h" for what release version you have. |
| 3 |
| 4 The GNU C Library is the standard system C library for all GNU systems, |
| 5 and is an important part of what makes up a GNU system. It provides the |
| 6 system API for all programs written in C and C-compatible languages such |
| 7 as C++ and Objective C; the runtime facilities of other programming |
| 8 languages use the C library to access the underlying operating system. |
| 9 |
| 10 In GNU/Linux systems, the C library works with the Linux kernel to |
| 11 implement the operating system behavior seen by user applications. |
| 12 In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers. |
| 13 |
| 14 The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the |
| 15 GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[4567]86-*-gnu. The current |
| 16 GNU/Hurd support requires out-of-tree patches that will eventually be |
| 17 incorporated into an official GNU C Library release. |
| 18 |
| 19 When working with Linux kernels, this version of the GNU C Library |
| 20 requires Linux kernel version 3.2 or later on all architectures except |
| 21 i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux kernel version 2.6.32 or later |
| 22 suffices. |
| 23 |
| 24 Also note that the shared version of the libgcc_s library must be |
| 25 installed for the pthread library to work correctly. |
| 26 |
| 27 The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels: |
| 28 |
| 29 aarch64*-*-linux-gnu |
| 30 alpha*-*-linux-gnu |
| 31 arm-*-linux-gnueabi |
| 32 hppa-*-linux-gnu Not currently functional without patches. |
| 33 i[4567]86-*-linux-gnu |
| 34 x86_64-*-linux-gnu Can build either x86_64 or x32 |
| 35 ia64-*-linux-gnu |
| 36 m68k-*-linux-gnu |
| 37 microblaze*-*-linux-gnu |
| 38 mips-*-linux-gnu |
| 39 mips64-*-linux-gnu |
| 40 powerpc-*-linux-gnu Hardware or software floating point, BE only. |
| 41 powerpc64*-*-linux-gnu Big-endian and little-endian. |
| 42 s390-*-linux-gnu |
| 43 s390x-*-linux-gnu |
| 44 sh[34]-*-linux-gnu |
| 45 sparc*-*-linux-gnu |
| 46 sparc64*-*-linux-gnu |
| 47 tilegx-*-linux-gnu |
| 48 tilepro-*-linux-gnu |
| 49 |
| 50 If you are interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc |
| 51 maintainers; see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for more |
| 52 information. |
| 53 |
| 54 See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, and install |
| 55 the GNU C Library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for |
| 56 the C library at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/. |
| 57 |
| 58 The GNU C Library is (almost) completely documented by the Texinfo manual |
| 59 found in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated |
| 60 and contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not |
| 61 have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like. For |
| 62 corrections to the manual, please file a bug in the `manual' component, |
| 63 following the bug-reporting instructions below. Please be sure to check |
| 64 the manual in the current development sources to see if your problem has |
| 65 already been corrected. |
| 66 |
| 67 Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug reporting |
| 68 information. We are now using the Bugzilla system to track all bug reports. |
| 69 This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly. |
| 70 |
| 71 The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying |
| 72 conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require |
| 73 these additional notices to be distributed. License copyright years may be |
| 74 listed using range notation, e.g., 1996-2015, indicating that every year in |
| 75 the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that would otherwise be listed |
| 76 individually. |
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