On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:34, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:46:00 +0100 > > Peter Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I would like to try out the NPTL thread package with Gentoo, but I > > have > > some questions :- > > > > 2. From the forums, it looks like I need 2.5 or 2.6 kernel. Is > > this right ? I thought redhat 9 was using 2.4 with NPTL > > Correct. You'll need 2.6. then rebuild glibc with nptl in USE. (I think > the right glibc version is hard masked too, just to make it even more > exciting)
There are several glibc versions that are hard-masked but the latest straight ~x86 version contains working nptl. I believe the hard-masked contains later versions of nptl that have been shown to have serious bugs. The latest ~x86 version of glibc worked fine for me with nptl. BTW, after recompiling glibc, you'll also want to recompile Sun's jre/jdk if you're using it/them and also want to recompile openoffice. They'll work without doing so but will only take advantage of nptl afterward. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
