Hi,
Since Kent West has kindly clarified what I wanted to say, I'm not going to repeat my main point. Only the following:
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [...]
about particular software (nptl thread library) not being available for woody: why not install it yourself? just because it's not available as debian package does not mean you cannot install it. I can imagine that this might not be possible in all cases but in general this approach solves lot of portability problems (from one linux distro/version to another linux or even unix distro/version).
In fact I looked at the homepage of nptl. That was kind of scary to me :) The page says that you need to use a rather new kernel and libc. So, the installation of nptl would mean: Back up everything, learn how to build kernel since I've never done that before (my machine is dual-processor, and my kernel was built by another guy), learn how large an impact upgrading libc will mean, and so on. If I had a leisure few days, I might try. But, if I had a few days off, I'd rather spend the time away from the computer screen! I've had too much these days in front of my workstation.
I don't think you can expect a really old version of debian to support new software. If you want to use new software use new software. It looks like libc6-i686 in unstable supports nptl:
jojda:~> apt-cache show libc6-i686 ... Version: 2.3.2.ds1-13 ... This package includes support for NPTL. ...
I don't see how this is different in windows or redhat or anything else. Yes it would be nice if everything worked with everything but that's not possible...
erik
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