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. -- Regards, Mick
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