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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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