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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-01-12 06:52:14 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2010-01-12 06:52:14 +0100
commit37b8bfda56adc0c633b041948ef78e53b8ce1add (patch)
treea28fa5e280db5974c9c7b354444c9b967122d2c7
parent21a6a7f64c8dab1d07fbbc1ff25a58aaf706d08e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-37b8bfda56adc0c633b041948ef78e53b8ce1add.tar.xz
doc: mention the wchar.h vs. glibc build problem
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention the wchar.h issue.
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@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
Work around a build failure when using buggy <sys/capability.h>.
Alternatively, configure with --disable-libcap.
+ Compilation would fail on systems using glibc-2.7..2.9 due to changes in
+ gnulib's wchar.h that tickled a bug in at least those versions of glibc's
+ own <wchar.h> header. Now, gnulib works around the bug in those older
+ glibc <wchar.h> headers.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.3 (2010-01-07) [stable]