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Re: Started moving FAQ to the wiki - please review!


On 04/27/2012 10:12 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

I started with moving the FAQ from git to the wiki, it is now at:

http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ

I suggest removing the attempts to attribute individual items to particular authors (the {AB} at the start of entries).

I've updated the chapter 1 of FAQ now based on your comments. Let me just point out where I did something different.


[...]
"What version of the Linux kernel headers should be used?" - likewise,
main install docs.

Let's document make install_headers - I'll do this later.


"My XXX kernel emulates a floating-point coprocessor for me. Should I
enable --with-fp?" - rewrite (choice of --without-fp is really about
matching the compiler's ABI, and only relevant for certain platforms such
as powerpc or mips).

Not done yet.


"How can I compile on my fast ix86 machine a working libc for my slow
i386? After installing libc, programs abort with "Illegal Instruction"." -
remove, you can't build -march=i386 now at least with NPTL (glibc requires
atomics only available on i486 and later).

I've changed it to use i586 as example.


thanks for the comments.

I've also added a new chapter to collect new FAQ entries and added those we discussed on #glibc, feel free to add others there as well...

Andreas
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