From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8737 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Oct 2003 17:40:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 15927 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2003 17:40:01 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Paul de Vrieze Cc: Gentoo-Dev In-Reply-To: <200310291356.42374.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <20031027042839.GC28917@digitasaru.net> <200310270756.59051.vapier@gentoo.org> <200310292116.30598.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <200310291356.42374.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Dg3GnXIvajiLUT8HTH4j" Message-Id: <1067449249.9405.43.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:40:49 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] NPTL ready yet? X-Archives-Salt: 0ef2d93e-11f5-4da9-9e1d-4d145576e657 X-Archives-Hash: 8e6d852b7f88ea39937db69066325c42 --=-Dg3GnXIvajiLUT8HTH4j Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:56, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 13:16, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > I used NPTL for about four weeks and had no problems except that > > canna, a Japanese input server, would not start. Other than that, I > > didn't detect any change in the system, performance-wise or otherwise. > > > > On Monday 27 October 2003 21:56, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Monday 27 October 2003 01:35, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > > > > Whats involved in updating a non-NPTL glibc to NPTL glibc? Just > > > > "USE=3Dnptl emerge glibc" or do other libraries and binaries need t= o > > > > be re-emerged also? > > > > > > no, just re-emerging glibc with nptl in USE is enough > > > > As far as I know, only OpenOffice and Sun JRE/JDK have support for > > NPTL. Wouldn't these need to be re-emerged to take advantage of it? >=20 > I don't know about openoffice remerging. Basically the support consists=20 > of making openoffice compile on nptl based systems. An allready compiled=20 > openoffice should though run fine with nptl. >=20 > It seems that the same is true for the j2sdk java source package (looking= =20 > at the patch). It could be however that the headers from the nptl=20 > implementation of pthreads allow better optimization, but I don't know.=20 > In that case you would need to recompile everything that uses the=20 > pthread lib. >=20 AFIAK, you do not need to recompile anything to use it - anything using libpthread will use it. You may however have issues recompiling things as there was some changes, and things heavy dependent on how linuxthreads worked (valgrind, gdb, etc) may or may not misbehave, but mostly the rest works just fine. Thanks, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-Dg3GnXIvajiLUT8HTH4j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/n/uhqburzKaJYLYRAg5ZAJ0VoST1WvbKeSWbTvSFYYOKMJJ+WQCcCRdh 4bhxB6vp/W50Dtxlrb9f0tw= =4m9l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Dg3GnXIvajiLUT8HTH4j--