> You're probably running binaries linked with pthreads and you're running > into a "sysmips" bug. I've attached a patch from Florian which works > for me. I don't know why this hasn't been applied in the cvs tree (I > assume you mean Ralf's cvs tree?) since it only makes things better, > even if it isn't *the* perfect solution.
I was using the cvs tree from oss.sgi.com; don't know wheter this is Ralf's. the "current" tree i checked out last week did not run at all, so i checked out the tagged version. The patch you sent (from florian) did work for me. Thanks. Erich

