Re: queries about porting glibc

[wmglo]

Hi,

I believe most of your questions are answered at

http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/

> I'm in the process of porting glibc to the Cray X1 and follow-on
> (craynv) architecture.  I've downloaded glibc-2.3.2 and have gotten
> through a partial build.  I had a few questions:
> 
> - I can't remember where I read it, but I saw a statement implying
>   that you needed linuxthreads to successfully port glibc to a
>   Linux machine.  Is this true?

In principle, this is not true.  However, I have not seen anyone
recently compiling glibc without either LinuxThreads or NPTL on Linux.

On non-Linux architectures, you certainly do _not_ need LinuxThreads,
the FreeBSD port by Bruno Haible is a good example I think.

>   Is there a CVS source tree somewhere?

Please see the above web page.

> - Where would I send any glibc fixes?  bug-glibc, I suppose?

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/
would be best.

>   What format is recommended for fixes?

diff -u.  And with ChangeLogs (I recommend GNU emacs' changelog-mode).

Regards,
Wolfram,