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+EGLIBC Package
+==============
+
+Downloading Upstream EGLIBC Source
+----------------------------------
+
+EGLIBC is currently maintained in a Subversion repository, which is routinely
+updated with patches from its upstream, GLIBC.  You can download a version
+branch of EGLIBC and pack it into an archive as follows:
+
+    $ svn export svn://svn.eglibc.org/branches/eglibc-2_15 eglibc-2.15
+    $ tar -czf eglibc-2.15.tar.gz eglibc-2.15
+
+Building the EGLIBC Package
+---------------------------
+
+In addition to the build environment variables set by opkhelper, this package's
+'build' makefile uses the following variables, which can be set by the user:
+
+    TOOLS_PREFIX
+        The location of the toolchain (especially GNU Binutils), if not the
+        system default.
+    HEADERS_PREFIX
+        The location of the Linux headers, if not `/usr/include`.
+    JOBS
+        The number of jobs (commands) that can be run simultaneously when
+        building from source.
+
+For example, the following command was used to cross build this package for the
+`cortexa8-linux-eglibc` binary architecture and `rcstereo` application platform
+on a dual-core CPU, where `<sysroot>` was the sysroot of the cross toolchain:
+
+    $ TOOLS_PREFIX=<sysroot>/cross-tools HEADERS_PREFIX=<sysroot> JOBS=4 \
+    > opkbuild -a cortexa8-linux-eglibc -p rcstereo -d