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Supported Configurations

The GNU C Library currently supports configurations that match the following patterns:

alpha-anything-linux
ix86-anything-gnu
ix86-anything-linux
m68k-anything-linux

Former releases of this library (version 1.09.1 and perhaps earlier versions) used to run on the following configurations:

alpha-dec-osf1
ix86-anything-bsd4.3
ix86-anything-isc2.2
ix86-anything-isc3.n
ix86-anything-sco3.2
ix86-anything-sco3.2v4
ix86-anything-sysv
ix86-anything-sysv4
ix86-force_cpu386-none
ix86-sequent-bsd
i960-nindy960-none
m68k-hp-bsd4.3
m68k-mvme135-none
m68k-mvme136-none
m68k-sony-newsos3
m68k-sony-newsos4
m68k-sun-sunos4.n
mips-dec-ultrix4.n
mips-sgi-irix4.n
sparc-sun-solaris2.n
sparc-sun-sunos4.n

Since no one has volunteered to test and fix the above configurations, these are not supported at the moment. It's expected that these don't work anymore. Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc maintainers by sending electronic mail to bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu.

Each case of `ix86' can be `i386', `i486', `i586', or `i686'. All of those configurations produce a library that can run on any of these processors. The library will be optimized for the specified processor, but will not use instructions not available on all of them.

While no other configurations are supported, there are handy aliases for these few. (These aliases work in other GNU software as well.)

decstation
hp320-bsd4.3 hp300bsd
i486-gnu
i586-linux
i386-sco
i386-sco3.2v4
i386-sequent-dynix
i386-svr4
news
sun3-sunos4.n sun3
sun4-solaris2.n sun4-sunos5.n
sun4-sunos4.n sun4


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