I got this reply from the libc maintainer - can anyone more involved with Debian/alpha build stuff help him out?
...tom -----Original Message----- From: GOTO Masanori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:37 AM To: Thomas Evans Cc: GOTO Masanori; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#325600: libc6.1: Threads remain <defunct> on Alpha with libc6. 2.3.5-4 At Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:28:01 -0400, Thomas Evans wrote: > When you state "Upstream already moved to NPTL", do you mean the > mainline libc development, or do youe mean that Debian/alpha libc is moving to NPTL? The mainline libc, not debian alpha glibc. But I guess adding debian alpha NPTL is not difficult task - but (1) I have no access to the alpha machine without appropriate privileges (2) alpha buildd is not 2.6 kernel. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

