On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:09:48PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Regardless of your response here, I'll fix the bug as it's obviously > broken. > > I'm curious though why this is required on hppa. Does hppa not > support static mutex initializers or is there some more complicated > magic going on? I ask because I think a couple of other packages will > break if static mutexes are not supported.
There's an explanation from Carlos O'Donnell in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486069#50 One reason for the difference wrt. other architectures is that hppa still uses LinuxThreads instead of NPTL. -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
