ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.2.tar.gz
and all of its mirror sites. There is also a patch for the 2.0.1 release
available at
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.1-2.0.2.diff.gz
The major difference to the 2.0.1 release is that literally hundreds
of bugs are fixed. I don't expect severe problem when using the this
version of the library anymore.
At the same time new versions of the official add-ons ae available at
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.2.tar.gz
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-localedata-2.0.2.tar.gz
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-linuxthreads-2.0.2.tar.gz
Please note the people from outside the USA must not download the
glibc-crypt-2.0.2.tar.gz file from prep. Instead use the European
mirror site at
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.2.tar.gz
(This file will be available soon, but the 2.0 release is really the same.)
This release is a bit late but I had (and still have) disk problems.
In a disk crash I lost my whole local development environment and
getting all new installed on my slow systems takes some time. I hope
future updates won't take that long.
Reporting bugs:
Please use the `glibcbug' shell script to report bugs. This will help
a lot since this information is also available to the public. There
exists a WWW interface to the GNU problem report database which is
available at
http://pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu:8080/wwwgnats.pl
Please make sure you read the file `BUGS' in the source distribution
before reporting a bug.
General news/notes:
- GNU libc is usable on the Hurd.
- though I've received no single bug report on the math library I've
fixed about 100 bugs. This does not mean the libm in 2.0.1 was buggier
than any other libm.
- some bugs in the Berkeley DB library were fixed.
- the collation functions now finally should be correctly handle all
locales.
- the function `atoll' is new (coming from ISO C 9X)
- the headers now should be C++ safe.
- the time zone code and data are updated.
- support for ld.so-1.9 on Linux is added.
- some more tests are added.
- many, many bugs are fixed.
Notes for the Hurd:
(by Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG <thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu>)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This version of glibc has been verified to work on the GNU Hurd.
However, because of an ld bug that existed when GNU 0.0 was released,
this libc is NOT binary compatible with a GNU 0.0 system. Any program
that uses NSS (that is, any program that looks up user or host names,
etc.) will not work if you install this library on a GNU 0.0 system.
(The same comments apply to anyone using a GNU 0.1 system.) This
version of glibc will, however, be the basis for the forthcoming GNU
0.2 release.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Notes for Linux:
- 2.0.2 fixes many problems with using Linux headers. I.e., replacements
for the headers are provided. Kernel headers shall not be used explicitly.
- Make sure you use ld.so-1.9 or above.
Notes on the future:
There will be as many 2.0.x releases of GNU libc as necessary. If an
important bug is fixed I'll make a new release. We are in parallel
working on the 2.1 release of the GNU libc.
New things coming in 2.1 are:
- Almost complete support for ISO C 9X (as far as the library is concerned)
- More ports: GNU libc now runs also on Linux on MIPS, SPARC, and PPC,
including shared libraries.
- ELF symbol versioning is implemented.
- Various performance tweaks.
- NIS+ support.
What can **YOU** do ???
With the release of GNU libc 2.0 I hoped to find a wider audience and
that more people actively support the development. But I got
disappointed. Several people help locating and fixing bugs and I
appreciate this very much. But I got (almost) no reactions from
people who actively want to help developing. I think this is sad.
The more people help the sooner GNU libc is finished. People taking
over small jobs would help a lot since people from the core
development group could work on larger projects.
People with only limited programming knowledge can participate by
writing/editing the documentation, clean source code/header. Or in my
my opinion the most important task: write test.
The test suite is one of the biggest advantages of the GNU libc but it
is still not extensive enough. Please, just pick one function and
write a few reasonable tests which test as many aspects as possible.
These are small projects which can in the end help a lot by reducing
the debug time.
As always I want to thank my eager helpers without who this piece of
software never would exist in this form.
-- Uli
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