Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird 1.5.1 RC 2 NPTL Builds

[Helen B. <he...@tp...>]

At 10:10 AM 16/06/2004 +0400, Alex Peshkov wrote:
>Alan McDonald wrote:
>
>>sorry but what are nptl builds?
>>
>Native Posix Threads Library. Used in RH9, Fedora, may be some else distros.
>It gives much better threads support (M:N, futex, etc.), and was designed 
>to be fully backward compatible with old libpthread. Unfortunately, 
>backward compatibility is not OK - fb1.5, built w/o NPTL support, crashes 
>sporadically on NPTL-enabled systems. Built from that same sources on 
>system with native NPTL (I use RH9) appears to work fine.
>
>BTW, Paul & others - shouldn't we add README to prerelease area?

Yes, Alex.  Send me notes on the private release channel and I'll do a 
readme.  If possible, would you enumerate the first distros of each of the 
main Linux brands that used the NPTL?  (Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, SusE)

thks
Helen