On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:18:01PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > My thought is that gcc-3.3 will be out soon enough for us to use that.
> But for future coming stable gcc-3.3, we should start to support tls > and nptl, and I already start to investigate. I think we should have > two libc6: libc6-linuxthreads (linuxthreads) and libc6-nptl (nptl). > This means that now the name libc6 becomes virtual package or > something. I haven't investigated - does the core glibc library actually change based on each add on? It would be nice to have just the pthreads change for two reasons: Less to switch from one to the other, and it would be interesting to be able to use apt-cache to show which packages used pthreads. > > The biggest problem is that Debian's kernels don't have futex > > support. I've heard that RedHat has some solution for automatically > > detecting which they should use, but I don't know anything about it. > I hope someone intent to package redhat9's 2.4 Ingo's backport patch. > BTW, I use the latest kernel on my some machines, so it's not problem > for me. I keep wondering why it's not been accepted upstream. I don't follow Linux kernel development anymore, so I don't know the story. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- You said homosexuals form a small percentage of the population. So do Jews. Is that a reason to deny someone equality? - Richard Marceau
