From: <sko...@up...> - 2004-10-26 00:58:48
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>>>It would work also on a NPTL glibc, but it must be setup as in mainstream >>>distros - i.e. a non-NPTL glibc in /lib and the NPTL one elsewhere, i.e. >>>in /lib/tls. Otherwise, UML is linked against the NPTL glibc and does not >>>work. >> >>So UML will not run on NPTL-enabled gentoo-systems, since gentoo-ebuilds >>won't build two glibcs (actually they will in the future, but those >>ebuilds aren't stable yet). > > Ah, so that is the only problem? And "not stable" means that it is > "~x86" (almost perfect) or "-*" (dangerous)? I'll check by myself anyway. For gentoo-users with NPTL enabled, this may be the only problem, yes. You can recognize the new glibc-ebuilds which build two glibc-version by looking at their useflags: the new ebuilds have the "nptlonly" use-flag which will force the old behaviour (building only one version of glibc) again. |