> Hi,
> I downloaded Star Office 5 and only THEN realised that the code for doing
> linux thread
> emulation is #ifndef SMP :) Still, after downloading 70 meg over a 56k modem
> and paying
> 19c/meg I was gonna try the sucker regardless.. And well, it works!
>
> The install hung at the end, after its done everything, so I killed it, but
> after that I
> can run it with (seemingly) no problems.. (Except for the 2000 odd 'shared
> address space
> fork attempted' messages in my syslog)
>
> I only had a quick fiddle, but it started up everything fine and ran quite
> well..
>
> The install was a pain tho, as I had to unpack the setup program (its a self
> extracting
> zip) and rename the libs in it to lower case and then add an LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> to point to
> them, but apart from that it was OK.
>
> Its worth noting though, that eMusic which uses Linux threads doesn't work
> under
> emulation (it just hangs) I think I'll boot a non-SMP kernel and have a go
> ('cause it
> took me an hour to find all of the $...@$ dependancies it needs because Linux
> ldd doesn't
> work anymore)
>
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
>
You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow
linux threads to run on SMP.
-lq
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