This directory contains the files needed to build glibc for the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution.  Please be sure to check on Debian's ftp site,
ftp://ftp.debian.org/, to see if a newer version is available.

Compiling the GNU C library yourself will need a lot of resources from
you.  For a complete build using dpkg-buildpackage you need at least
200MB free disk space and at least 16MB of RAM and 32MB of swap space
(if you have only that much you're better off not running X at the
same time).

A complete build runs for about 6 hours on a 486-133 and still just
about 3 hours on a Pentium 133. The cause for this is the intricate
Makefile structure of glibc which needs a lot of computing power for
make to figure out the automatically generated dependecies.
