On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:50, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 08/10/2011 04:02 PM, c...@chrekh.se wrote: >> >> There is at least a theoretical benifit if you set NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 >> in make.conf and recompile glibc. That way glibc could use things not >> present in older kernels. > > glibc will use things in newer kernels anyway. You don't need to use > NPTL_KERN_VER=2.6.38 in order for glibc to use 2.6.38 features; it will do > that by default. NPTL_KERN_VER only omits fallbacks for older kernels. > It's there to reduce the size of glibc. The size difference is very small > though. >
Thanks for the explanation, Nikos. Since the size difference is very small, I'll just use NPTL_KER_VER as it is (that is, not mucking with it). Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
