On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:21:21PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I've just placed a new glibc package for experimental in incoming. > libc6-i686 is new, so it may be a few days before it shows up in the > archive. These packages should be considered _extremely experimental_, as > neither the NPTL libraries (requires 2.6.0; I don't think it will behave > right if you have 2.6.0 on an i386; that's on the TODO list to fall back to > LinuxThreads) nor the i686 optimized libraries (requires 2.4.18; will > misbehave on non-cmov processors) have been well tested. Do not build and > upload packages against them. Some intelligence, please :)
I gather NPTL is (yet-another) threading library in 2.6.0? Do programs need to be modified / recompiled in anyway? What are the benifits of one over the other? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
