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From: Peter Johanson <latexer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: nptl in make.defaults
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:23:23
Message-Id: 20040823192319.GA30241@butchy.cubesearch.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: nptl in make.defaults by Chris Bainbridge
1 On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:20:03PM +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
2 > On Monday 23 August 2004 19:23, Ned Ludd wrote:
3 > > > What about adding use="nptl" to make.defaults then?
4 > > bad idea.. It's not well enough supported. Many bugs open that are not
5 > > getting resolved.
6 >
7 > I could find 17 bugs with 'nptl' in the summary. Most of them are invalid;
8 > mostly compile errors with old package versions that have since been fixed
9 > upstream. #21132 looks like the only serious one, and that only affects
10 > proprietary binary software. I've been running nptl for ages (on x86) and
11 > have no problems with the other packages mentioned (openoffice, mysql, wine,
12 > glibc).
13 >
14
15 bug #54603 concerning mono + NPTL is still very valid. Garbage
16 collection is basically completely fscked when using an NPTL glibc.
17 There definitely *are* still bugs related to NPTL. (well, at least one
18 that i'm sure of)
19
20 -pete
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