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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Sergey A. Lipnevich said:
> Hi All!
>
> RH9 has this NPTL thing (http://freshmeat.net/projects/nptl/), do we
> want/need it? Sounds good but I know there're compatibility issues, right?
> Thanks!
>
> Sergey.

Excerpt from
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/phil-list/2003-June/msg00021.html:
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> Mario Fetka wrote:
> > at the moment i am compiling a compleat Linux from scratch (LFS)
> > but stuck at glibc (cvs 20030611) with nptl
> > but same glibc with linuxthreads compiles with no problems
> > buld env gcc 3.3.1 (cvs 20030602)
>
> Get a kernel which actually can handle nptl.  It is not possible to
> compile glibc without such a kernel unless you cross compile (which
> isn't support officially).

kernel is 2.5.69-ac1 (Kernel headers)

building in a chroot env on redhat 9.0 (2.4.20-8)
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Looks like NPTL will only work with the 2.5 kernels.

-sandalle

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