On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:30:33PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Yeah, things are not as fast as we hope, but we are a volunteer > > organisation, > > so we will see. > > > > But if in a month or so NPTL is not yet enabled, we will go and ask them, > > but > > the current way is to make small incremental steps, i guess. > > Turning on NPTL is a one liner or such in the package config file... it > work fine, I've been running NPTL enabled packages for ages.
Yep. Over cautious guys that is all, but we waited for ages, we most assuredly can wait a month more or so. Alternatively we can provide a rebuilded NPTL-enabled glibc or something in the meantime. > > This is irrelevant to the rest of the decision about biarch, and i would > > like > > your input on this one. > > > > In particular if anyone knows what the status of linking 32bit code with > > 64bit code is ? Or if we really need to rebuild all libraries as 64bit > > version ? > > You can't cross link. You need 2 sets of libs unfortunately. Too bad. This mean rebuilding all libs or most of them for ppc64. Friendly, Svne Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
