[gentoo-dev] Re: nptl in make.defaults

[gentoo-dev] Re: nptl in make.defaults

[Chris Bainbridge]

On Monday 23 August 2004 19:23, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > What about adding use="nptl" to make.defaults then?
> bad idea.. It's not well enough supported. Many bugs open that are not
> getting resolved.

I could find 17 bugs with 'nptl' in the summary. Most of them are invalid; 
mostly compile errors with old package versions that have since been fixed 
upstream. #21132 looks like the only serious one, and that only affects 
proprietary binary software. I've been running nptl for ages (on x86) and 
have no problems with the other packages mentioned (openoffice, mysql, wine, 
glibc). 


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: nptl in make.defaults

[Peter Johanson]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:20:03PM +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On Monday 23 August 2004 19:23, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > > What about adding use="nptl" to make.defaults then?
> > bad idea.. It's not well enough supported. Many bugs open that are not
> > getting resolved.
> 
> I could find 17 bugs with 'nptl' in the summary. Most of them are invalid; 
> mostly compile errors with old package versions that have since been fixed 
> upstream. #21132 looks like the only serious one, and that only affects 
> proprietary binary software. I've been running nptl for ages (on x86) and 
> have no problems with the other packages mentioned (openoffice, mysql, wine, 
> glibc). 
> 

bug #54603 concerning mono + NPTL is still very valid. Garbage
collection is basically completely fscked when using an NPTL glibc.
There definitely *are* still bugs related to NPTL. (well, at least one
that i'm sure of)

-pete

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Monday's Managers' meeting

[Travis Tilley]

Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:

>
> On 23 Aug 2004, at 19:21, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 22 August 2004 16:56, Grant Goodyear wrote:
>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> 7. Making udev/2.6 the default on some arch's?  (wolf31o)
>>
>>
>> What about adding use="nptl" to make.defaults then?
>
>
> That implies deprecating 2.4.
>
> Pieter


thanks to the power of cascading profiles, the default profile -can- 
have an nptl sub-profile without much effort. simply add a subdirectory, 
change some default virtuals for os headers, and add nptl to it's 
make.defaults.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: nptl in make.defaults

[David Sparks]

Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On Monday 23 August 2004 19:23, Ned Ludd wrote:
> 
>>>What about adding use="nptl" to make.defaults then?
>>
>>bad idea.. It's not well enough supported. Many bugs open that are not
>>getting resolved.
> 
> 
> I could find 17 bugs with 'nptl' in the summary. Most of them are invalid; 
> mostly compile errors with old package versions that have since been fixed 
> upstream. #21132 looks like the only serious one, and that only affects 
> proprietary binary software. I've been running nptl for ages (on x86) and 
> have no problems with the other packages mentioned (openoffice, mysql, wine, 
> glibc). 


The LD_ASSUME_KERNEL method of using a non-nptl glibc on an app by app 
basis should be fixed before nptl goes mainstream.  Its a requirement 
for anyone using old, binary-only software.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61128

ds

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