On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:54:18PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:29:06PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > 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. > > Can you clue me in as to why the non-optimized libc6 package will work with > non-ntpl-2.4, but the optimizations won't activate unless you have a 2.6 or > nptl-2.4 kernel? > > Is it file locations, or somesuch? I saw something that might hint to that > in this thread in another message.
A libc must be built to support either NPTL or LinuxThreads. I chose to build libc6-i686 using NPTL, therefore it currently requires 2.6. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
