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Adhemerval Zanella Netto
33237fe83d Remove --enable-tunables configure option
And make always supported.  The configure option was added on glibc 2.25
and some features require it (such as hwcap mask, huge pages support, and
lock elisition tuning).  It also simplifies the build permutations.

Changes from v1:
 * Remove glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort changes, it is orthogonal and needs
   more discussion.
 * Cleanup more code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2023-03-29 14:33:06 -03:00
Adhemerval Zanella
6384171fa0 Remove --disable-experimental-malloc option
It is the default since 2.26 and it has bitrotten over the years,
By using it multiple malloc tests fails:

  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb1
  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-mcheck
  FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb1
  FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2
  FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb1
  FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb2

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.

Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
2023-03-29 14:33:06 -03:00
Adhemerval Zanella Netto
91fc5b9990 Remove --with-default-link configure option
Now that there is no need to use a special linker script to hardening
internal data structures, remove the --with-default-link configure
option and associated definitions.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2023-03-27 13:57:55 -03:00
Carlos O'Donell
5199024232 Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2023-01-31 17:51:40 -05:00
Florian Weimer
89baed0b93 Revert "Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startup"
This reverts commit 6f85dbf102.

Once this change hits the release branches, it will require relinking
of all statically linked applications before static dlopen works
again, for the majority of updates on release branches: The NEWS file
is regularly updated with bug references, so the __libc_early_init
suffix changes, and static dlopen cannot find the function anymore.

While this ABI check is still technically correct (we do require
rebuilding & relinking after glibc updates to keep static dlopen
working), it is too drastic for stable release branches.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2022-08-25 18:46:43 +02:00
Florian Weimer
6f85dbf102 Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startup
The files NEWS, include/link.h, and sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
contribute to the version fingerprint used for detection.  The
fingerprint can be further refined using the --with-extra-version-id
configure argument.

_dl_call_libc_early_init is replaced with _dl_lookup_libc_early_init.
The new function is used store a pointer to libc.so's
__libc_early_init function in the libc_map_early_init member of the
ld.so namespace structure.  This function pointer can then be called
directly, so the separate invocation function is no longer needed.

The versioned symbol lookup needs the symbol versioning data
structures, so the initialization of libc_map and libc_map_early_init
is now done from _dl_check_map_versions, after this information
becomes available.  (_dl_map_object_from_fd does not set this up
in time, so the initialization code had to be moved from there.)
This means that the separate initialization code can be removed from
dl_main because _dl_check_map_versions covers all maps, including
the initial executable loaded by the kernel.  The lookup still happens
before relocation and the invocation of IFUNC resolvers, so IFUNC
resolvers are protected from ABI mismatch.

The __libc_early_init function pointer is not protected because
so little code runs between the pointer write and the invocation
(only dynamic linker code and IFUNC resolvers).

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-08-24 17:35:57 +02:00
Carlos O'Donell
7a52dfab02 Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2022-07-29 17:51:16 -04:00
Florian Weimer
c935789bdf INSTALL: Rephrase -with-default-link documentation
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-04-26 14:22:23 +02:00
Florian Weimer
198abcbb94 Default to --with-default-link=no (bug 25812)
This is necessary to place the libio vtables into the RELRO segment.
New tests elf/tst-relro-ldso and elf/tst-relro-libc are added to
verify that this is what actually happens.

The new tests fail on ia64 due to lack of (default) RELRO support
inbutils, so they are XFAILed there.
2022-04-22 10:59:03 +02:00
Carlos O'Donell
6415fd2ddc Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2022-02-03 00:06:38 -05:00
Florian Weimer
9ba202c78f Add --with-rtld-early-cflags configure option
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-01-14 20:17:15 +01:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
23645707f1 Replace --enable-static-pie with --disable-default-pie
Build glibc programs and tests as PIE by default and enable static-pie
automatically if the architecture and toolchain supports it.

Also add a new configuration option --disable-default-pie to prevent
building programs as PIE.

Only the following architectures now have PIE disabled by default
because they do not work at the moment.  hppa, ia64, alpha and csky
don't work because the linker is unable to handle a pcrel relocation
generated from PIE objects.  The microblaze compiler is currently
failing with an ICE.  GNU hurd tries to enable static-pie, which does
not work and hence fails.  All these targets have default PIE disabled
at the moment and I have left it to the target maintainers to enable PIE
on their targets.

build-many-glibcs runs clean for all targets.  I also tested x86_64 on
Fedora and Ubuntu, to verify that the default build as well as
--disable-default-pie work as expected with both system toolchains.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-12-13 08:08:59 +05:30
H.J. Lu
bada2e312a Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to specify TIMEOUTFACTOR
On Ice Lake and Tiger Lake laptops, some test programs timeout when there
are 3 "make check -j8" runs in parallel.  Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to
specify an integer to scale the timeout of test programs, which can be
overriden by TIMEOUTFACTOR environment variable.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2021-12-04 12:58:28 -08:00
Carlos O'Donell
06eae99ab4 Update install.texi, and regenerate INSTALL. 2021-08-01 16:48:43 -04:00
Matheus Castanho
ebae2f5a6f Add build option to disable usage of scv on powerpc
Commit 68ab82f566 added support for the scv
syscall ABI on powerpc.  Since then systems that have kernel and processor
support started using scv.  However adding the proper support for a new syscall
ABI requires changes to several other projects (e.g. qemu, valgrind, strace,
kernel), which are gradually receiving support.

Meanwhile, having a way to disable scv on glibc at build time can be useful for
distros that may encounter conflicts with projects that still do not support the
scv ABI, buying time until proper support is added.

This commit adds a --disable-scv option that disables scv support and uses sc
for all syscalls, like before commit 68ab82f566.

Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-10 16:23:25 -03:00
Naohiro Tamura
3856056358 aarch64: Added Vector Length Set test helper script
This patch is a test helper script to change Vector Length for child
process. This script can be used as test-wrapper for 'make check'.

Usage examples:

~/build$ make check subdirs=string \
test-wrapper='~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16'

~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16 \
make test t=string/test-memcpy

~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 32 \
./debugglibc.sh string/test-memmove

~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 64 \
./testrun.sh string/test-memset
2021-05-26 12:01:06 +01:00
Lukasz Majewski
496e36f225 tst: Extend cross-test-ssh.sh to specify if target date can be altered
This code adds new flag - '--allow-time-setting' to cross-test-ssh.sh
script to indicate if it is allowed to alter the date on the system
on which tests are executed. This change is supposed to be used with
test systems, which use virtual machines for testing.

The GLIBC_TEST_ALLOW_TIME_SETTING env variable is exported to the
remote environment on which the eligible test is run and brings no
functional change when it is not.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-03-08 22:37:16 +01:00
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
ad47748992 Update INSTALL with package versions that are known to work
Most packages have been tested with their latest releases, except for
Python, whose latest version is 3.9.1.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-01-25 13:13:17 -03:00
Richard Earnshaw
3378408987 config: Allow memory tagging to be enabled when configuring glibc
This patch adds the configuration machinery to allow memory tagging to be
enabled from the command line via the configure option --enable-memory-tagging.

The current default is off, though in time we may change that once the API
is more stable.
2020-12-21 15:25:25 +00:00
Stefan Liebler
844b4d8b4b s390x: Require GCC 7.1 or later to build glibc.
GCC 6.5 fails to correctly build ldconfig with recent ld.so.cache
commits, e.g.:
785969a047
elf: Implement a string table for ldconfig, with tail merging

If glibc is build with gcc 6.5.0:
__builtin_add_overflow is used in
<glibc>/elf/stringtable.c:stringtable_finalize()
which leads to ldconfig failing with "String table is too large".
This is also recognizable in following tests:
FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-prepend-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-X
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-bad-aux-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-ld_so_conf-update
FAIL: elf/tst-stringtable

See gcc "Bug 98269 - gcc 6.5.0 __builtin_add_overflow() with small
uint32_t values incorrectly detects overflow"
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98269)
2020-12-17 16:18:04 +01:00
Florian Weimer
27fe5f2e67 Linux: Require properly configured /dev/pts for PTYs
Current systems do not have BSD terminals, so the fallback code in
posix_openpt/getpt does not do anything.  Also remove the file system
check for /dev/pts.  Current systems always have a devpts file system
mounted there if /dev/ptmx exists.

grantpt is now essentially a no-op.  It only verifies that the
argument is a ptmx-descriptor.  Therefore, this change indirectly
addresses bug 24941.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2020-10-07 14:55:50 +02:00
Carlos O'Donell
ba0ec34c62 Regenerate INSTALL for ARC port updates. 2020-07-22 23:32:07 -04:00
Petr Vorel
ae7a94e5e3 Remove --enable-obsolete-nsl configure flag
this means that *always* libnsl is only built as shared library for
backward compatibility and the NSS modules libnss_nis and libnss_nisplus
are not built at all, libnsl's headers aren't installed.

This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs that have
been added in or before version 2.28.

Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>.

This change does not affect libnss_compat which does not depended
on libnsl since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.

libnsl code depends on Sun RPC, e.g. on --enable-obsolete-rpc (installed
libnsl headers use installed Sun RPC headers), which will be removed in
the following commit.
2020-07-08 17:25:57 +02:00
H.J. Lu
9e38f455a6 x86: Add --enable-cet=permissive
When CET is enabled, it is an error to dlopen a non CET enabled shared
library in CET enabled application.  It may be desirable to make CET
permissive, that is disable CET when dlopening a non CET enabled shared
library.  With the new --enable-cet=permissive configure option, CET is
disabled when dlopening a non CET enabled shared library.

Add DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL to config.h.in:

 /* The default value of x86 CET control.  */
 #define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_elf_property

which enables CET features based on ELF property note.

--enable-cet=permissive it to

 /* The default value of x86 CET control.  */
 #define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_permissive

which enables CET features permissively.

Update tst-cet-legacy-5a, tst-cet-legacy-5b, tst-cet-legacy-6a and
tst-cet-legacy-6b to check --enable-cet and --enable-cet=permissive.
2020-05-18 08:38:53 -07:00
Paul E. Murphy
5c7ccc2983 powerpc64le: blacklist broken GCC compilers (e.g GCC 7.5.0)
GCC 7.5.0 (PR94200) will refuse to compile if both -mabi=% and
-mlong-double-128 are passed on the command line.  Surprisingly,
it will work happily if the latter is not.  For the sake of
maintaining status quo, test for and blacklist such compilers.

Tested with a GCC 8.3.1 and GCC 7.5.0 compiler for ppc64le.

Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30 08:52:08 -05:00
Paul E. Murphy
3a0acbdcc5 powerpc64le: bump binutils version requirement to >= 2.26
This is a small step up from 2.25 which brings in support for
rewriting the .gnu.attributes section of libc/libm.so.

Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30 08:52:08 -05:00
Paul E. Murphy
50545f5aa0 powerpc64le: raise GCC requirement to 7.4 for long double transition
Add compiler feature tests to ensure we can build ieee128 long double.
These test for -mabi=ieeelongdouble, -mno-gnu-attribute, and -Wno-psabi.

Likewise, verify some compiler bugs have been addressed.  These aren't
helpful for building glibc, but may cause test failures when testing
the new long double.  See notes below from Raji.

On powerpc64le, some older compiler versions give error for the function
signbit() for 128-bit floating point types.  This is fixed by PR83862
in gcc 8.0 and backported to gcc6 and gcc7.  This patch adds a test
to check compiler version to avoid compiler errors during make check.

Likewise, test for -mno-gnu-attribute support which was

On powerpc64le, a few files are built on IEEE long double mode
(-mabi=ieeelongdouble), whereas most are built on IBM long double mode
(-mabi=ibmlongdouble, the default for -mlong-double-128).  Since binutils
2.31, linking object files with different long double modes causes
errors similar to:

  ld: libc_pic.a(s_isinfl.os) uses IBM long double,
      libc_pic.a(ieee128-qefgcvt.os) uses IEEE long double.
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[2]: *** [../Makerules:649: libc_pic.os] Error 1

The warnings are fair and correct, but in order for glibc to have
support for both long double modes on powerpc64le, they have to be
ignored.  This can be accomplished with the use of -mno-gnu-attribute
option when building the few files that require IEEE long double mode.

However, -mno-gnu-attribute is not available in GCC 6, the minimum
version required to build glibc, so this patch adds a test for this
feature in powerpc64le builds, and fails early if it's not available.

Co-Authored-By: Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan  <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gabrielftg@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
2020-04-30 08:52:08 -05:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
df5919dfeb Update newest tested versions of dependencies in install.texi
Updated versions of gcc, binutils, awk, bison and perl.
2020-02-01 17:16:54 +05:30
Paul Eggert
5a82c74822 Prefer https to http for gnu.org and fsf.org URLs
Also, change sources.redhat.com to sourceware.org.
This patch was automatically generated by running the following shell
script, which uses GNU sed, and which avoids modifying files imported
from upstream:

sed -ri '
  s,(http|ftp)(://(.*\.)?(gnu|fsf|sourceware)\.org($|[^.]|\.[^a-z])),https\2,g
  s,(http|ftp)(://(.*\.)?)sources\.redhat\.com($|[^.]|\.[^a-z]),https\2sourceware.org\4,g
' \
  $(find $(git ls-files) -prune -type f \
      ! -name '*.po' \
      ! -name 'ChangeLog*' \
      ! -path COPYING ! -path COPYING.LIB \
      ! -path manual/fdl-1.3.texi ! -path manual/lgpl-2.1.texi \
      ! -path manual/texinfo.tex ! -path scripts/config.guess \
      ! -path scripts/config.sub ! -path scripts/install-sh \
      ! -path scripts/mkinstalldirs ! -path scripts/move-if-change \
      ! -path INSTALL ! -path  locale/programs/charmap-kw.h \
      ! -path po/libc.pot ! -path sysdeps/gnu/errlist.c \
      ! '(' -name configure \
            -execdir test -f configure.ac -o -f configure.in ';' ')' \
      ! '(' -name preconfigure \
            -execdir test -f preconfigure.ac ';' ')' \
      -print)

and then by running 'make dist-prepare' to regenerate files built
from the altered files, and then executing the following to cleanup:

  chmod a+x sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/configure
  # Omit irrelevant whitespace and comment-only changes,
  # perhaps from a slightly-different Autoconf version.
  git checkout -f \
    sysdeps/csky/configure \
    sysdeps/hppa/configure \
    sysdeps/riscv/configure \
    sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/csky/configure
  # Omit changes that caused a pre-commit check to fail like this:
  # remote: *** error: sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/ppc-mcount.S: trailing lines
  git checkout -f \
    sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/ppc-mcount.S \
    sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/syscall.S
  # Omit change that caused a pre-commit check to fail like this:
  # remote: *** error: sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/multiarch/memcpy-ultra3.S: last line does not end in newline
  git checkout -f sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/multiarch/memcpy-ultra3.S
2019-09-07 02:43:31 -07:00
Carlos O'Donell
e712490684 Update install and NEWS for 2.30 release. 2019-08-01 00:22:46 -04:00
Florian Weimer
94a4e9e4f4 Extend BIND_NOW to installed programs with --enable-bind-now
Commit 2d6ab5df3b ("Document and fix
--enable-bind-now [BZ #21015]") extended BIND_NOW to all installed
shared objects.  This change also covers installed programs.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2019-04-25 10:41:43 +02:00
Joseph Myers
4dcbbc3b28 Require GCC 6.2 or later to build glibc.
As discussed during development for glibc 2.29, when we increased the
required minimum GCC version for building glibc to GCC 5, working
purely based on the times at which such requirements have been
increased in the past it would be appropriate for glibc 2.30 to
require GCC 6 (matching GCC 4.9 having been required for glibc 2.26).
Naming 6.2 specifically as the minimum version then means a separate
version requirement no longer needs to be specified for powerpc64le.

Thus, this patch increases the minimum to 6.2, removing the
documentation of the separate requirement for powerpc64le.  It does
not remove the powerpc64le configure test, or any __GNUC_PREREQ that
could be removed as not being in installed headers or files shared
with gnulib; I think such cleanups are best done separately.

Tested for x86_64.

	* configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 6.2 or later.
	* configure: Regenerated.
	* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC
	version.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2019-02-01 16:27:44 +00:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
330c9d0db1 Prepare for 2.29 release
* NEWS: Add the list of bugs fixed in 2.29.
	* manual/contrib.texi: Update contributors list with some more
	names.
 	* manual/install.texi: Update latest versions of packages
 	tested.
 	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2019-01-31 22:01:21 +05:30
Joseph Myers
192963be49 Require GCC 5 or later to build glibc (bug 23993).
We know that building glibc with GCC 4.9 is broken on various
platforms (bug 23993).  As it's more than a year since we last
increased the minimum GCC version to build glibc, this patch changes
the requirement to be GCC 5 or later (indeed, based on 4.9 having been
required for building 2.26, it would be consistent in terms of timing
to require GCC 6 or later from the 2.30 release onwards).  It
deliberately just updates the configure test and corresponding
documentation, leaving removal of no-longer-needed __GNUC_PREREQ tests
for a separate patch.

In the NEWS entry, the requirement for a newer GCC version for
powerpc64le is reiterated (as in the entry for the 4.9 requirement in
2.26) to avoid suggesting the version requirement there has gone down.
(If that version goes up further as part of support for binary128 long
double, of course the wording would change at that time.)

Tested for x86_64.

	[BZ #23993]
	* configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 5 or later.
	* configure: Regenerated.
	* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC
	version.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-12-21 17:53:40 +00:00
Florian Weimer
053c52b177 locale: Rewrite locale/gen-translit.pl in Python
This commit does not change the generated output file.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2018-12-18 11:36:29 +01:00
Joseph Myers
c6982f7efc Patch to require Python 3.4 or later to build glibc.
This patch makes Python 3.4 or later a required tool for building
glibc, so allowing changes of awk, perl etc. code used in the build
and test to Python code without any such changes needing makefile
conditionals or to handle older Python versions.

This patch makes the configure test for Python check the version and
give an error if Python is missing or too old, and removes makefile
conditionals that are no longer needed.  It does not itself convert
any code from another language to Python, and does not remove any
compatibility with older Python versions from existing scripts.

Tested for x86_64.

	* configure.ac (PYTHON_PROG): Use AC_CHECK_PROG_VER.  Set
	critic_missing for versions before 3.4.
	* configure: Regenerated.
	* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
	requirement for Python to build glibc.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
	* Rules [PYTHON]: Make code unconditional.
	* benchtests/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
	* conform/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
	* manual/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
	* math/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
2018-10-29 15:28:05 +00:00
Joseph Myers
b71ac2b9ce Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual.
This patch extends gen-libm-test.py to generate the ulps table for the
manual, so meaning there is only a single ulps file parser needed and
another Perl script is eliminated.  As with the introduction of
gen-libm-test.py, this is designed to generate exactly the same
libm-err.texi as libm-err-tab.pl did.  (gen-libm-test.py is still
shorter in lines than the old gen-libm-test.pl even after this patch.)
Note that this introduces a Python dependency for building the manual,
which is thus noted in install.texi and NEWS.

Tested building html / info / pdf versions of the manual.

	* math/gen-libm-test.py: Import os.
	(ALL_FLOATS_MANUAL): New constant.
	(ALL_FLOATS_SUFFIX): Likewise.
	(Ulps.all_functions): New function.
	(real_all_ulps): Likewise.
	(generate_err_table_sub): Likewise.
	(generate_err_table): Likewise.
	(main): Handle -s and -m options.
	* manual/libm-err-tab.pl: Remove.
	* manual/Makefile ($(objpfx)stamp-libm-err): Use gen-libm-test.py
	instead of libm-err-tab.pl.
	[$(PERL) != no]: Change condition to [$(if $(PYTHON),$(PERL),no)
	!= no].
	* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
	requirement for Python to build manual.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-10-24 20:34:31 +00:00
Andreas Schwab
462d348caa Don't build libnsl for new ABIs
For architectures and ABIs that are added in version 2.29 or later the
option --enable-obsolete-nsl is no longer available, and no libnsl
compatibility library is built.
2018-09-24 10:23:10 +02:00
Florian Weimer
6413fcde4f Add --with-nonshared-cflags option to configure 2018-08-17 11:44:39 +02:00
Joseph Myers
3c1622eb77 Update install.texi documentation of uses of Perl and Python.
The install.texi documentation of uses of Perl and Python is
substantially out of date.

The description of Perl is "to test the installation" (which I
interpret as referring to test-installation.pl), but it's used for
more tests than that, and to build the manual, and to regenerate one
file in the source tree.

The description of Python is only for pretty-printer tests, but it's
used for other tests / benchmarks as well (and for other internal uses
such as updating Unicode data, for which we already require Python 3,
but I think install.texi only needs to describe uses from the main
glibc Makefiles).

This patch updates the descriptions of what those tools are used for.
The Python information (and information about other tools for testing
pretty printers) was awkwardly in the middle of the general
description of building and testing glibc, rather than with the rest
of information about tools used in glibc build and test; this patch
moves the information about those tools into the main list.

Tested with regeneration of INSTALL as well as "make info" and "make
pdf".

	* manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Do not list
	tools used for testing pretty printers here.
	(Tools for Compilation): List Python, PExpect and GDB here.
	Update descriptions of uses of Perl and Python.
	* INSTALL: Regenerate.
2018-08-13 17:20:46 +00:00
Carlos O'Donell
08a5ee14c6 Add convenience target 'install-locale-files'.
The convenience install target 'install-locale-files' is created
to allow distributions to install all of the SUPPORTED locales as
files instead of into the locale-archive.

You invoke the new convenience target like this:
make localedata/install-locale-files DESTDIR=<prefix>
2018-08-02 15:31:12 -04:00
Carlos O'Donell
f650932b34 Update tooling versions verified to work with glibc. 2018-07-31 16:37:07 -04:00
H.J. Lu
e84bd8514c INSTALL: Add a note for Intel CET status
* NEWS: Add a note for Intel CET status.
	* manual/install.texi: Likewise.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-07-19 12:05:10 -07:00
H.J. Lu
e6c695099b Intel CET: Document --enable-cet
* NEWS: Mention --enable-cet.
	* manual/install.texi: Document --enable-cet.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-07-18 09:52:53 -07:00
Florian Weimer
f2873d2da0 testrun.sh: Implement --tool=strace, --tool=valgrind
$(file …) appears to be the only convenient way to create files
with newlines and make substitution variables.  This needs make 4.0
(released in 2013), so update the requirement to match.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2018-07-04 15:30:45 +02:00
Zack Weinberg
e69d994a63 New configure option --disable-crypt.
Some Linux distributions are experimenting with a new, separately
maintained and hopefully more agile implementation of the crypt
API.  To facilitate this, add a configure option which disables
glibc's embedded libcrypt.  When this option is given, libcrypt.*
and crypt.h will not be built nor installed.
2018-06-29 16:53:47 +02:00
Joseph Myers
db9881ecd7 Document use of CC and CFLAGS in more detail (bug 20980, bug 21234).
There are some bug reports from people setting CFLAGS not including a
-O option and then being confused when the build fails.  This patch
addresses this by documenting the proper use of CC and CFLAGS in more
detail - saying what options should go where and specifying the
requirement to compile with optimization.

The previous text incorrectly used @var markup with CC and CFLAGS.
The correct markup for environment variables is @env, but it's also
the case that passing such variables explicitly on the configure
command line is preferred to passing them in the environment, so this
patch changes the documentation to describe passing them on the
command line (and uses @code).

In many cases putting options in the wrong place may in fact work, but
I believe what I've specified is the correct rule for which options to
put where.

	[BZ #20980]
	[BZ #21234]
	* manual/install.texi (Configuring and compiling): Describe
	passing CC and CFLAGS on configure command line, not as
	environment variables.  Use @code markup on those variables.
	Specify what options go in CC and what go in CFLAGS.  Note the
	requirement to compile with optimization.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-02-15 23:48:47 +00:00
Dmitry V. Levin
d9f442ce56 Fix typo in the previous commit
The version of GCC was 7.3, not 7.3.1.
2018-01-31 23:13:00 +00:00
Dmitry V. Levin
9349311964 Update information about the newest versions of tools used to build glibc
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update the newest
versions of gcc, binutils, texinfo, gawk, bison, and sed.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2018-01-31 14:20:10 +00:00
H.J. Lu
126adc89d8 Document that --enable-static-pie implies PIE
To build static PIE, all .o files are compiled with -fPIE.  Since
--enable-static-pie is designed to provide additional security hardening
benefits, it also implies that glibc programs and tests are created as
dynamic position independent executables (PIE) by default for better
security hardening.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

	* manual/install.texi: Document that --enable-static-pie
	implies PIE.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2017-12-19 13:51:16 -08:00