On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:42:00AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:10:02PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > I've been unable to find the version of pthreads that I need. I've > > looked (iwth objdump) at the prebuilt libc6 package (2.2.5-14.3) and > > also through the glibc sources but it's unclear to me how to > > configure them to get what I need. In short, I need a version of > > libc6 built to to use the GS segment register to access > > pthread-local storage. I am running debian testing, kernel 2.4.18, > > libc6 version 2.2.5-14.3 on a pentium 3. > > If I understand right, you're looking for a TLS-enabled version of > glibc. Drepper originally had this planned for 2.3, but it wasn't > ready in time so has been disabled by default. > > If this is really important to you, you could take the upstream source > and configure it with --enable-tls and work directly with them on > bugs. This isn't a supported config, so you should expect to have to > do some hacking to get it to work with very little support from anyone > > Sorry I don't have better news for you.
No, --enable-tls is the successor to what Richard is talking about. I believe building glibc with an appropriate --enable-kernel= version will do it; I don't remember what the appropriate version is but that file should make it clear. Ah, 2.4.0 will work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
