At Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:05:51 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:17:44PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > > While there hasn't been any discussion for glibc bugzilla report #685 > > [1], private communication with one of the glibc maintainers indicates > > that this issue is not considered to be a glibc bug because, > > officially, glibc supports only one thread library at a time: > > LinuxThreads _or_ NPTL, but not both at the same time. Of course, > > every distro I know of ships both NPTL and LinuxThreads and the > > apparently accepted workaround appears to be to use the ld.so that was > > built for NPTL rather than the one that was built for LinuxThreads > > (more precisely, the ld.so should be used which uses larger thread > > descriptors). Thus, I strongly suspect Debian should do the same. > > Since this bug results in memory corruption that can be very hard to > > track down, I hope this can be fixed quickly. As a temporary > > workaround, just doing: > > > > # mv /lib/tls/ld-2.3.2.so /lib/ > > > > should cure the problem. > > ISTR that Red Hat has a patch for this in their glibc RPMs already.
OK, I pulled the Jakub's patch and built it. I put it at: http://www.gotom.jp/~gotom/debian/glibc/2.3.2.ds1-21_ia64.linuxthreads David, could you test this glibc on your ia64 environment with (ex) evolution? Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
