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-This directory contains the -liberty library of free software.
-It is a collection of subroutines used by various GNU programs.
-Current members include:
-
- getopt -- get options from command line
- obstack -- stacks of arbitrarily-sized objects
- strerror -- error message strings corresponding to errno
- strtol -- string-to-long conversion
- strtoul -- string-to-unsigned-long conversion
-
-We expect many of the GNU subroutines that are floating around to
-eventually arrive here.
-
-The library must be configured from the top source directory. Don't
-try to run configure in this directory. Follow the configuration
-instructions in ../README.
-
-Please report bugs to "gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org" and send fixes to
-"gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org". Thank you.
-
-ADDING A NEW FILE
-=================
-
-There are two sets of files: Those that are "required" will be
-included in the library for all configurations, while those
-that are "optional" will be included in the library only if "needed."
-
-To add a new required file, edit Makefile to add the source file
-name to CFILES and the object file to REQUIRED_OFILES.
-
-To add a new optional file, it must provide a single function, and the
-name of the function must be the same as the name of the file.
-
- * Add the source file name to CFILES.
-
- * Add the function to name to the funcs shell variable in
- configure.ac.
-
- * Add the function to the AC_CHECK_FUNCS lists just after the
- setting of the funcs shell variable. These AC_CHECK_FUNCS calls
- are never executed; they are there to make autoheader work
- better.
-
- * Consider the special cases of building libiberty; as of this
- writing, the special cases are newlib and VxWorks. If a
- particular special case provides the function, you do not need
- to do anything. If it does not provide the function, add the
- object file to LIBOBJS, and add the function name to the case
- controlling whether to define HAVE_func.
-
-The optional file you've added (e.g. getcwd.c) should compile and work
-on all hosts where it is needed. It does not have to work or even
-compile on hosts where it is not needed.
-
-ADDING A NEW CONFIGURATION
-==========================
-
-On most hosts you should be able to use the scheme for automatically
-figuring out which files are needed. In that case, you probably
-don't need a special Makefile stub for that configuration.
-
-If the fully automatic scheme doesn't work, you may be able to get
-by with defining EXTRA_OFILES in your Makefile stub. This is
-a list of object file names that should be treated as required
-for this configuration - they will be included in libiberty.a,
-regardless of whatever might be in the C library.