Re: [patches] Cross-building instructions

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Khem Raj wrote:

> Secondly, I think we should also add some words about ports its not mentioned
> that it should be inside 'libc' directory
> because on SVN tree its parallel to libc.

With ports, you are meant to be able to specify any full path to it in 
your --enable-add-ons configure option; a subdirectory "ports" directly 
inside libc is not the only option.

> Thirdly, just an idea may be we should have weekly/monthly source tarball
> snapshots until we have a release.

I don't think there's much need for releases; we intend the release 
branches such as EGLIBC 2.5 to be stable at all times so that if they 
build and pass testing they are suitable for use, and I don't think that 
declaring a particular point on a release branch to be a release would 
make it more stable than any other randomly selected point on that branch.

The symbol versions and so the sequence of release branches are determined 
by FSF glibc.

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Joseph S. Myers
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