On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:28 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:23:37 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote: > >>> 1) How platform specific is it? > >> Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another.
[SNIP] > > > >> IIRC > >> there have been some issues in the past... so, unless we are totally > >> sure, we need to keep the working/stable and old linuxthreads.old. > > > > No, what we do is we keep the 0.9.29 tarball around and if people have bugs > > trying to use 0.9.30 they _report_ them to us. If they want to use the old > > threading code, they can use the old version of the library. If they want > > the new features, then they help us find (and fix) the new bugs. > > > It may be a solution... I' don't have the power to drop linuxthrad.old > anyway... we need a wider agreement (Mike, Jocke, Bernhard, Bernd..others ?) Dropping linuxthread.old is fine with me. There isn't enough developers around to maintain 3 versions, not to mention the confusion 3 versions will arise. I do think the new linuxthread need to be maintained for some time. Jocke _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list uClibc@uclibc.org http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
