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Julian Seward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 10:47, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> > Is it worth retiring this machine from the nightly tests? It does an extra
> > malloc() call for every program for some unknown reason, I think this is
> > why so many tests fail.
> > [...]
> > > Nightly build on alvis ( i686, Red Hat 7.3 ) started at 2008-02-15
> > [...]
> > > == 338 tests, 83 stderr failures, 1 stdout failure, 29 post failures ==
>
> A related question is: what is the oldest system that we should
> attempt to support? I'd tried to ensure V continues to build and
> be usable on a vanilla Red Hat 7.3 (+ gcc 2.96) system, and that's
> mostly viable with the profilers and Memcheck, but for the
> threading tools it's pretty pointless as neither DRD nor Helgrind
> work reasonably with LinuxThreads.
That machine is actually using gcc 3.2.2 now, and not the original
gcc 2.96 that RH7.3 shipped with.
> I'm inclined to say: continue ensuring the 3.3.X branch works with
> Red Hat 7.3, but change the baseline requirements for the trunk
> (hence for >= 3.4.0) to something more modern: drop LinuxThreads
> support, and require gcc >= 3.0.
>
> So what's the oldest commonly-used distro that supported NPTL?
RH9 is pretty much the first distro to support it isn't it?
It didn't really go mainstream until the 2.6 kernel, which was
with FC2 in Fedora IIRC.
Tom
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