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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] i386 ISO
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:38:16 -0800

Quoting Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>:
> Hi All!
> As it seems, glibc with nptl does not work on i386.
> (according to Benoit, can anyone confirm/deny this?
> I still get a lot for a google on "nptl i386", but only fedora stuff)

I don't have any i386 machines, but one could probably test this by compiling
/for/ an i386 machine (in a chroot, if wanted).

> This would mean that we have to either not use nptl on the ISO or not
> support
> i386 anymore. Does anyone still want an i386 ISO?
> Of course, we can always (and probably still should) offer a seperate ISO
> for 2.4 (linuxthreads, i386) and 2.6 (nptl, i486).

I'd rather have our 2.6 ISO using NPTL and a 2.4 ISO for those who don't want
NPTL.

> Your opinions on this?
> So Far,
> Karsten

-sandalle

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