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Comments on chapter 4 of the FAQ "Miscellaneous"
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:58:09 +0200
- Subject: Comments on chapter 4 of the FAQ "Miscellaneous"
Here's my proposal - please comment.
4. Miscellaneous
4.1. After I changed configure.in I get `Autoconf version X.Y.
or higher is required for this script'. What can I do?
Remove.
4.2. When I try to compile code which uses IPv6 headers and
definitions on my Linux 2.x.y system I am in trouble.
Nothing seems to work.
Remove.
4.3. When I set the timezone by setting the TZ environment variable
to EST5EDT things go wrong since glibc computes the wrong time
from this information.
Remove - but we should add another entry and to point out the timezone
information is not part of glibc anymore and should be installed from
the tzdata sources.
4.4. What other sources of documentation about glibc are available?
Replace with a pointer to the man-pages.
4.5. The timezone string for Sydney/Australia is wrong since even when
daylight saving time is in effect the timezone string is EST.
Remove.
4.6. I've build make 3.77 against glibc 2.1 and now make gets
segmentation faults.
Remove.
4.7. Why do so many programs using math functions fail on my AlphaStation?
Remove.
4.8. The conversion table for character set XX does not match with
what I expect.
Remove.
4.9. How can I find out which version of glibc I am using in the moment?
Keep.
4.10. Context switching with setcontext() does not work from within
signal handlers.
Is this description still correct? In that case keep.
Andreas
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