From: Davide Cittaro <davide.cittaro@ifom-ieo-campus.it>
To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] glibc 2.5+
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:11:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <680EC22B-0F89-4161-9FC9-8DFC492C4718@ifom-ieo-campus.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070528150610.GK22162@woodpecker.gentoo.org>
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On May 28, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Bryan Østergaard wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 04:01:15PM +0200, Davide Cittaro wrote:
>> Hi all, I've found that glibc 2.5+ cannot be compiled on my alpha, as
>> reported on gentoo bugzilla by another person.
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179353
>>
>> I have a couple of questions, then:
>> 1- it is safe to use '-nptlonly' flag?
> Not really. In the past we've found Linuxthreads to be unstable and
> nptlonly is much preferred for that reason (we had programs randomly
> crashing with Linuxthreads and no problems with NPTL).
>
After 1 hour of building I've discovered that glibc doesn't compile
even without nptlonly flag
>> 2- when the patched glibc will be available in portage (comment 2 of
>> that bug has been posted one week ago)?
> As soon as glibc upstream fixes the problem. Meanwhile you have two
> different options.
>
> 1. Upgrade to binutils >=2.17.50.0.15 and risk possible unknown bugs
> from doing so.
> 2. Ignoring glibc-2.5 updates until upstream fixes the issue.
>
> My recommendation would be to wait and not try to work around the
> issue
> yourself.
Unfortunately I have strict times and this general system update has
been scheduled for this week. Since glibc-2.5-r2 is marked stable on
alpha I thought I wouldn't run into such issues... :-(
If I upgrade binutils can I use both nptl* flags?
d
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-28 14:01 [gentoo-alpha] glibc 2.5+ Davide Cittaro
2007-05-28 15:06 ` Bryan Østergaard
2007-05-28 15:11 ` Davide Cittaro [this message]
2007-05-28 15:49 ` Bryan Østergaard
2007-06-01 9:49 ` Davide Cittaro
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