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authorJeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>2007-12-20 01:36:48 +0300
committerJeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>2007-12-20 01:36:48 +0300
commit26b8429317e14bf9e329170910bb76268ca5243b (patch)
tree6495599cd7dd2a1191206a8e3b08d664ea7db20f /newlib/README
parent6af69de3d38f97904ed3dcfef30f350614e051f3 (diff)
2007-12-19 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Update with 1.16.0 info. * README: Ditto. * acinclude.m4: Change version number to 1.16.0. * aclocal.m4: Regenerated. * configure: Ditto. * doc/aclocal.m4: Ditto. * doc/configure: Ditto. * libc/*/aclocal.m4: Ditto. * libc/*/configure: Ditto. * libc/libc.texinfo: Ditto. * libm/*/aclocal.m4: Ditto. * libm/*/configure: Ditto. * libm/libm.texinfo: Ditto. * libc/sys/linux/shared.ld: Add VERS_1.16.
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/newlib/README b/newlib/README
index 9857fe154..7468d0d98 100644
--- a/newlib/README
+++ b/newlib/README
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
- README for newlib-1.15.0 release
+ README for newlib-1.16.0 release
(mostly cribbed from the README in the gdb-4.13 release)
This is `newlib', a simple ANSI C library, math library, and collection
of board support packages.
The newlib and libgloss subdirectories are a collection of software from
-several sources, each with their own copyright and license. See the file
+several sources, each wi6h their own copyright and license. See the file
COPYING.NEWLIB for details. The rest of the release tree is under either
the GNU GPL or LGPL licenses.
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Unpacking and Installation -- quick overview
==========================
-When you unpack the newlib-1.15.0.tar.gz file, you'll find a directory
-called `newlib-1.15.0', which contains:
+When you unpack the newlib-1.16.0.tar.gz file, you'll find a directory
+called `newlib-1.16.0', which contains:
COPYING config/ install-sh* mpw-configure
COPYING.LIB config-ml.in libgloss/ mpw-install
@@ -94,13 +94,13 @@ directory. If the path to `configure' would be the same as the
argument to `--srcdir', you can leave out the `--srcdir' option; it
will be assumed.)
- For example, with version 1.15.0, you can build NEWLIB in a separate
+ For example, with version 1.16.0, you can build NEWLIB in a separate
directory for a Sun 4 cross m68k-aout environment like this:
- cd newlib-1.15.0
+ cd newlib-1.16.0
mkdir ../newlib-m68k-aout
cd ../newlib-m68k-aout
- ../newlib-1.15.0/configure --host=sun4 --target=m68k-aout
+ ../newlib-1.16.0/configure --host=sun4 --target=m68k-aout
make
When `configure' builds a configuration using a remote source
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ called `configure' (or one of its subdirectories).
The `Makefile' that `configure' generates in each source directory
also runs recursively. If you type `make' in a source directory such
-as `newlib-1.15.0' (or in a separate configured directory configured with
-`--srcdir=PATH/newlib-1.15.0'), you will build all the required libraries.
+as `newlib-1.16.0' (or in a separate configured directory configured with
+`--srcdir=PATH/newlib-1.16.0'), you will build all the required libraries.
When you have multiple hosts or targets configured in separate
directories, you can run `make' on them in parallel (for example, if
@@ -317,9 +317,13 @@ the definition of the NEWLIB_CONFIGURE macro which is used by all configure.in
files in newlib. You will notice that each directory in newlib containing
a configure.in file also contains an aclocal.m4 file. This file is
generated by issuing: aclocal -I${relative_path_to_toplevel_newlib_dir}
+-I${relative_path_to_toplevel_src_dir}
+The first relative directory is to access acinclude.m4. The second relative
+directory is to access libtool information in the top-level src directory.
+
For example, to regenerate aclocal.m4 in newlib/libc/machine/arm:
- aclocal -I ../../..
+ aclocal -I ../../.. -I ../../../..
Note that if the top level acinclude.m4 is altered, every aclocal.m4 file
in newlib should be regenerated.
@@ -376,7 +380,7 @@ Reporting Bugs
The correct address for reporting bugs found in NEWLIB is
"newlib@sources.redhat.com". Please email all bug reports to that
-address. Please include the NEWLIB version number (e.g., newlib-1.15.0),
+address. Please include the NEWLIB version number (e.g., newlib-1.16.0),
and how you configured it (e.g., "sun4 host and m68k-aout target").
Since NEWLIB supports many different configurations, it is important
that you be precise about this.