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On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:01:15PM +0200, Davide Cittaro wrote: |
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> Hi all, I've found that glibc 2.5+ cannot be compiled on my alpha, as |
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> reported on gentoo bugzilla by another person. |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179353 |
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> I have a couple of questions, then: |
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> 1- it is safe to use '-nptlonly' flag? |
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Not really. In the past we've found Linuxthreads to be unstable and |
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nptlonly is much preferred for that reason (we had programs randomly |
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crashing with Linuxthreads and no problems with NPTL). |
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> 2- when the patched glibc will be available in portage (comment 2 of |
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> that bug has been posted one week ago)? |
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As soon as glibc upstream fixes the problem. Meanwhile you have two |
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different options. |
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1. Upgrade to binutils >=2.17.50.0.15 and risk possible unknown bugs |
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from doing so. |
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2. Ignoring glibc-2.5 updates until upstream fixes the issue. |
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My recommendation would be to wait and not try to work around the issue |
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yourself. |
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Regards, |
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Bryan Østergaard |
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