Re: [Openmosix-general] RedHat libpthread

[Moshe B. <moshe@Moelabs.com>]

would you care to write a simple HOWTO?

this way you can give something back to the community.

Many thanks

Moshe


On Fri, 31 May 2002 ma...@tr... wrote:

> > To solve the RedHat specific issue, as Gilad already pointed out, it is
> > enough to recompile the pthreads library without the USE_LDT flag (duruing
> > the ./configure step).
> Yes, now everything seems ok even on a RedHat 7.1.
> But the procedure I followed was a little different than a simple
> ./configure option (the libpthread ./configure in glibc is there only for
> convenience reasons, and the related documentation strongly advices to
> recompile the glibc as a whole to be prevent inter dependency problems.
> It appears glibc contains a kernel version check against the 2.4.x serie in
> glibc-X.Y.Z/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h. Should it pass, an
> ASSUME_LDT_WORKS is defined, resulting in the inclusion of
> glibc-x.y.z/linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386/useldt.h by
> glibc-x.y.z/linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386/i686/pt-machine.h
>
> After that a simple rpm --rebuild with the modified glibc source will
> result in a working rpm and replaced libraries, but the system will still
> use the unmodified libpthread (thus failing) found in /lib/i686/ :this
> copy must be replaced as well.
> Hope it helps anybody else with the same sort of problems.
>
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