[gobolinux-users] Re: Compiling Glibc 2.3.6

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 5/8/06, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On 5/7/06, l l <happyarch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > BTW, is there possibility to build glibc-2.4.0 in gobolinux?
> >
> > http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.4.tar.gz
>
> Oh, I wasn't aware it was out! Interesting changelog, though:
>
> * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
>   longer supported.  The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
>   For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
>   recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.

Guess I need to give it a try on PPC some time, then. With 2.3.x, I
couldn't get NPTL working on linux-ppc. If they dropped LinuxThreads,
that hopefully means that got fixed (either that or I'm stuck with
Glibc 2.3.x forever).

-- Hisham