From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4CDUvoF006657 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:30:57 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DWDmI-0005Sy-Q4 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 13:31:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 28314 invoked from network); 12 May 2005 09:29:11 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 12 May 2005 09:29:11 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] have_NPTL proposal/question Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:31:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <42827723.9010604@pnpitalia.it> <200505120833.10188.vapier@gentoo.org> <42835310.9020307@pnpitalia.it> In-Reply-To: <42835310.9020307@pnpitalia.it> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505120931.07664.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ce483830-05bb-4f2f-b7f0-7d689230e21b X-Archives-Hash: f79ca687c03459f42cef99bf181866ba On Thursday 12 May 2005 08:58 am, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >On Wednesday 11 May 2005 05:20 pm, Francesco Riosa wrote: > >>what we have: > >>At the moment have_NPTL is defined in eclass/eutils.eclass, it compile a > >>small test program to check if glibc have nptl support. > > > >hasnt this been outgrown ? people should `use nptl` now i think > > yes and no, > no, 2005.0 still default to -ntpl and -ntplonly > yes, it's used only by mono project ebuilds (grep has spoken) so what if 2005.0 defaults to -nptl and -nptlonly ? you're trying to decide if you should apply a nptl workaround or not ? USE=nptl makes sense if mono is the only thing [ab]using have_NPTL, then maybe i'll bug latexer/dotnet guys and see why they cant utilize USE=nptl > >>there are drawbacks on the use of getconfig (that come with glibc) ? > >>Maybe it's not supported from *libc ? > > > >well i'd point out that glibc is the only libc atm to implement NPTL ... > > but then i'd point out someone is working on it for uClibc ... > >-mike > > mmh ok, btw all variant of glibc had getconf ? uClibc isnt a 'glibc variant', but to answer your question, getconf is a glibc-ism -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list