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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:50, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 08/10/2011 04:02 PM, che@××××××.se wrote: |
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>> |
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>> There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 |
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>> in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not |
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>> present in older kernels. |
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> glibc will use things in newer kernels anyway. You don't need to use |
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> NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in order for glibc to use 2.6.38 features; it will do |
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> that by default. NPTL_KERN_VER only omits fallbacks for older kernels. |
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> It's there to reduce the size of glibc. The size difference is very small |
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> though. |
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Thanks for the explanation, Nikos. Since the size difference is very |
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small, I'll just use NPTL_KER_VER as it is (that is, not mucking with |
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it). |
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Rgds, |
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