On Tuesday 10 May 2005 17:23, Nix wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: > > Exporting in the environment LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 should also work, and > > is a bit more reliable in theory (because a distro *could* compile > > /lib/tls to even work on i486, I've heard; since no distro does it, this > > remains theory).
> Indeed: configuring glibc with --without-__thread, putting the result in > /lib/tls, and linking its dynamic linker into /lib yields an NPTL > installation that works on i586 without trouble. > The only downside is a loss of binary compatibility for programs that > use thread cancellation, but these seem to be very rare. Thanks for the info, anyhow that's probably enough to refrain many distros from doing it. Except SuSE, which has the two options (both i586 and i686, choosen by the installer as Gerd just said). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Skype user "PaoloGiarrusso" Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
