IMPORTANT!  It's NOT recommended to install this package, unless you want
to test compiling software with glibc.  Once you do, you'll be unable to
compile libc5 programs.  If you only want to RUN (not compile) glibc
software, please install the glibc runtime support packages instead.  These
are 'glibc1.tgz' and 'glibc2.tgz' in the Slackware A series.  (should be in
../slakware/a*/glibc1.tgz and ../slakware/a*/glibc2.tgz)

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This is the GNU glibc-2.0.7pre6 binary package (a.k.a. libc.so.6), including
development libraries and header files.

If you want to develop and run applications using GNU libc, just
install this package (and edit your 'specs' file, see below!), and
programs will be compiled using glibc by default:

installpkg glibc-2.0.7pre6.tgz


To change your environment to use GNU libc for compiling you need to
change the `specs' file of your gcc.  This file is normally found at

        /usr/lib/gcc-lib/<arch>/<version>/specs

In this file you have to change a few things:

- change `ld-linux.so.1' to `ld-linux.so.2'

- remove all expression `%{...:-lgmon}';  there is no libgmon in glibc


Note, this version of glibc was not compiled with the DES crypt add-on, 
although it does provide a crypt() function based on MD5.  I'd have liked
to include the real crypt(), but then wouldn't be able to export the
resulting library.  If you really need DES crypt(), you'll have to download
the glibc-crypt-2.0.7pre?.tar.gz add-on and compile it yourself.  At the time
of this writing, a compatible version can be downloaded from alpha.gnu.org in
the /gnu directory.  The most recent public release can also be found on
prep.ai.mit.edu, in /pub/gnu.  If you are outside the USA and Canada, do not
download glibc-crypt-2.0.6.tar.gz from prep (to do so violates US export
restrictions).  There should be a readme file there that will point you
to a non-US FTP site.

This library does include the 'linuxthreads' add-on, which provides clone()
and other threads-related functions, as well as the localedata add-on.

If you decide to switch back to developing with libc.so.5 again, you'll first
have to edit your 'specs' file to link with ldlinux.so.1.  (In fact, it might
be a good plan to just make a copy of the original 'specs' file when you edit
it in the first place)

Then, remove glibc and install the old 'libc.tgz' package like this

cd /var/log/packages
removepkg glibc-2.0.7pre6
cd <directory containing libc.tgz, such as /cdrom/slakware/d1>
installpkg libc.tgz

Have fun!