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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is glibc ntpl+nptl-only?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:49:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609160949.45886.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609161014.23081.exzombie@exzombie.homeip.net>

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On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:14, Jure Varlec wrote:

> Well, the new glibc-2.4 only supports nptl, unlike glibc-2.3 which
> supported both threading models. So if you want legacy linuxthreads, you
> have to stay with glibc-2.3.
> As for being "better", glibc-2.4 is better than 2.3 IMHO.
> Also, "nptl -nptlonly" combination with 2.3 actually builds two versions of
> glibc, one with nptl and one with linuxthreads, so you get a longer compile
> and larger disk footprint.

Is there a need for either nptl or nptlonly in our USE flags now that we have 
moved over to glibc-2.4 (assuming that we do not want linuxthreads anymore)?  
I currently have nptlonly in my make.conf and was wondering whether I should 
remove it.
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Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-16  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-15  5:07 [gentoo-user] Why is glibc ntpl+nptl-only? Wolfgang Liebich
2006-09-16  8:14 ` Jure Varlec
2006-09-16  8:49   ` Mick [this message]
2006-09-16 12:59     ` Jan-Hendrik Zab

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