On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:13:19PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:19:39PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to > > > > add > > > > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this discussion > > > > doesn't > > > > belong on the ITP bug. > > > > > > And why is it only for 2.6 kernels? The processor specific package should > > > support NPTL, and it doesn't require 2.6... > > > > That sentence is contradictory - NPTL requires 2.6. > > Sorry I didn't phrase that second sentence very well. I meant to ask why > the optimization wouldn't work with stock 2.4-non-NPTL kernels. > > libc6 2.3.x has NPTL support, and that works with 2.4 kernels, so why > wouldn't the optmized libc package also?
It could. I decided that building four was excessive and having the act of installing libc6-i686 act to disable NPTL would be a little bit too strange. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
