diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/extendpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/extendpoky.xml
index efbc52f7cb..ebd9804431 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/extendpoky.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/extendpoky.xml
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
It is important to use the correct names of packages in the
IMAGE_INSTALL variable.
You must use the OpenEmbedded notation and not the Debian notation for the names
- (e.g. glibc-dev instead of libc6-dev).
+ (e.g. eglibc-dev instead of libc6-dev).
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@
The information covers adding machines similar to those the Yocto Project already supports.
Although well within the capabilities of the Yocto Project, adding a totally new architecture
might require
- changes to gcc/glibc and to the site information, which is
+ changes to gcc/eglibc and to the site information, which is
beyond the scope of this manual.
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-bitbake.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-bitbake.xml
index b11bd5a2fd..6851fbf603 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-bitbake.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-bitbake.xml
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
task-base.bb,
which in turn leads to packages like Contacts,
Dates and BusyBox.
- These packages in turn depend on glibc and the toolchain.
+ These packages in turn depend on eglibc and the toolchain.
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index e4b2fc57a4..1532ccc917 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@
This class renames packages so that they follow the Debian naming
- policy (i.e. glibc becomes libc6
- and glibc-devel becomes libc6-dev.
+ policy (i.e. eglibc becomes libc6
+ and eglibc-devel becomes libc6-dev.
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
still make the correct values available.
The meta/site directory
contains test results sorted into different categories such as architecture, endianness, and
- the libc used.
+ the libc used.
Site information provides a list of files containing data relevant to
the current build in the
CONFIG_SITE variable
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
index 0105222010..da1c079777 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/ref-variables.xml
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION
- Variable that controls which locales for glibc are
+ Variable that controls which locales for eglibc are
to be generated during the build (useful if the target device has 64Mbytes
of RAM or less).
@@ -847,8 +847,10 @@
POKYLIBCThe libc implementation selector.
- You can select glibc, eglibc,
- or uclibc.
+ You can select eglibc or uclibc.
+ This release of the Yocto Project does not support the
+ glibc implementation of libc.
+
@@ -1094,8 +1096,8 @@
TARGET_OSSpecifies the target's operating system.
- The variable can be set to "linux" for glibc-based systems and
- "linux-uclibc" for uClibc.
+ The variable can be set to "linux" for eglibc-based systems and
+ to "linux-uclibc" for uclibc.
For ARM/EABI targets, there are also "linux-gnueabi" and
"linux-uclibc-gnueabi" values possible.
diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
index fa94b1d604..9da2e326b9 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
@@ -83,8 +83,11 @@
BitBake also tries to execute any dependent tasks first.
So for example, before building matchbox-desktop, BitBake
- would build a cross compiler and glibc if they had not already
+ would build a cross compiler and eglibc if they had not already
been built.
+ This release of the Yocto Project does not support the glibc
+ GNU version of the Unix standard C library. By default, the Yocto Project builds with
+ eglibc.
diff --git a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
index 40044db66f..49f2dd89e6 100644
--- a/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
+++ b/documentation/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.xml
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@
$ sudo yum install python m4 make wget curl ftp hg tar bzip2 gzip \
unzip python-psyco perl texinfo texi2html diffstat openjade \
docbook-style-dsssl sed docbook-style-xsl docbook-dtds \
- docbook-utils sed bc glibc-devel ccache pcre pcre-devel quilt \
+ docbook-utils sed bc eglibc-devel ccache pcre pcre-devel quilt \
groff linuxdoc-tools patch linuxdoc-tools cmake help2man \
perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker tcl-devel gettext chrpath ncurses apr \
SDL-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel gnome-doc-utils \