[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, i recently compiled and upgraded to glibc 3.2.1 and there's no way to make
wine work. There's thread related bug.
New Red Hat, Suse and Mandrake will be shipped with this new version of glibc,
so i think that's a serious bug.
We were all quite concerned about it until somebody reported a workaround; see
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/02/0260.html
The workaround is to give the command
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
before running Wine (and probably before running configure, too).
(This is documented in each distro's beta release notes, e.g.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/phoebe/en/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES.html
)
Have you tried this yet?
What CPU and OS are you using?
Configure cannot even check that libc are reentrant, i'm not a glibc expert
but there's some error with _errno and _errno_location.
I tried to apply a patch i found in the patch mailing list, but it didn't work
either.
( http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2003/01/0338.html )
That patch was bogus, it is not the right fix. The right fix is
for Wine to adapt to the new threading model in glibc2.3 (not 3.2, I think),
which is far superior to the old one. See http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#threads.nptl
So, consider that every linux distribution will be shipped with the new glibc,
and that there will be really a few windows programs that can work without
thread support.... well... i'd think about give priority to solve this one.
The changes needed are deep. Alexandre has started on them, but
given the workaround, it can probably wait a bit.
See also
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/02/0252.html
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83254
http://redhat.ifsic.univ-rennes1.fr/_rawhide/glibc-devel-2.3.1-51.i386.html
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Dan Kegel
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