Ports-related README updates.

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2012-12-05 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* README: Don't refer to ports add-on as distributed separately.
Mention AArch64 in list of systems supported in the ports add-on.
* LICENSES: Add more non-FSF copyright and license notices.
* soft-fp/op-common.h (_FP_DECL): Declare X##_s with __attribute__

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README
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sparc64*-*-linux-gnu
The code for other CPU configurations supported by volunteers outside of
the core glibc maintenance effort is contained in the separate `ports'
add-on. You can find glibc-ports-VERSION distributed separately in the
same place where you got the main glibc distribution files.
Currently these configurations have code in the `ports' add-on:
the core glibc maintenance effort is contained in the `ports' add-on,
located in the `ports' subdirectory of the source tree.
aarch64*-*-linux-gnu
alpha*-*-linux-gnu
am33*-*-linux-gnu Not currently functional
arm-*-linux-gnueabi

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2012-07-03 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* README: Don't refer to ports as a separate repository. Don't
refer to scripts/data/.
* .gitignore: Remove file.
* Banner: Likewise.
* Makefile: Likewise.

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This is the glibc ports repository, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc).
This is the glibc ports add-on, an add-on for the GNU C Library (glibc).
It contains code that is not maintained in the official glibc source tree.
This includes working ports to GNU/Linux on some machine architectures that
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some optimized functions tailored for specific CPU implementations of an
architecture, to be selected using --with-cpu.
The ports repository is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the
<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in a separate
ports git repository. See
The ports add-on is cooperatively maintained by volunteers on the
<libc-ports@sourceware.org> mailing list, and housed in the ports
subdirectory of the glibc git repository. See
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/download.html for details on using
git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports repository, please
go to http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under
the glibc "ports" component.
git. To report a bug in code housed in the ports add-on, please go to
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ and file a bug report under the
glibc "ports" component.
An add-on for an individual port can be made from just the sysdeps/
subdirectories containing the port's code. You may want to include a
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generated by Autoconf from sysdeps/CPU/preconfigure.in, and follow the
rules for glibc add-on configure fragments. No preconfigure file should do
anything on an unrelated configuration, so that disparate ports can be put
into a single add-on without interfering with each other. Files that
would go in scripts/data/ for libc go in data/ in ports.
into a single add-on without interfering with each other.
Like all glibc add-ons, this must be used by specifying the directory in
the --enable-add-ons option when running glibc's configure script.