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On Friday 30 April 2004 17:22, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:54:59PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > nptl is a global useflag that is used to specify that things need to be |
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> > build run with the nptl library. |
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> I thought only glibc took advantage of NPTL? And that all tools that are |
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> build against an NPTL-enabled GLIBC use NPTL for threading. |
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> If not, anyone know of a decent document explaining NPTL (and a bit |
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> in-depth please, I'm not afraid of challenges :)? |
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Some packages do all kinds of freaky stuff with threads that is not exactly |
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using public interfaces. Those packages normally need some kind of persuasion |
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to compile/run with nptl. (Wine is one of them, but it's freaky things could |
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be justified by its nature) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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