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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:59:19AM +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Eric Sandall a écrit :
> >Quoting Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>:
> >
> >>The mysql spell was not detecting the NPTL in glibc for some reason so I
> >>modified glibc to use config_query and build_api 2. Then modified mysql
> >>to grep the glibc.p file for NPTL="y".
> 
> This kind of fix is wrong from my point of view. glibc.p is something 
> that is not documented and which is "internal" to the sorcery api. What 
> was the exact reason that mysql does not detect ntpl? What happens if 
> you have compiled glibc without using sorcery?

I agree there should be a better solution. What was the problem with
mysql? I've been running it on a nptl glibc for some time without
problems.

> >>I have updated these in devel but haven't updated test as glibc has a
> >>WIP file.
> >
> >
> >This WIP is because we're waiting on more testers of the updated glibc. So 
> >far
> >we have 5 verified working and no complaints, I'm not sure what we want the
> >threshold to be, but it "seems" stable enough to me. Comments?

I'd like to get a fix for bug 7560[1] in the glibc spell before pulling
it into test for more testing.

> So, to test it, one would need access to "devel" grimoire? If so, what 
> is the URL of the devel grimoire?

Only accessible by p4 currently, just add it to your p4 workspace.

[1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7560

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