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

[Alex P. <pe...@in...>]

Alan McDonald wrote:

>>>sorry but what are nptl builds?
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>>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.
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>>>Alan
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>>Alex.
>>BTW, Paul & others - shouldn't we add README to prerelease area?
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>Thanks Alex,
>I don't suppose this is the reason the rpm of i686 would not install?
>If so does this fix the rpm install as well?
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Hard to say. I've never had problems installing any official build on my 
RH9. But I do have compatibility package installed on my box, which 
enables running programs, built with old libc.