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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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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