> > Did you ever try to get a stable system running on a buggy > > Hardware? That's a really funny... > So funny I split some knuckle skin on the stupid machine!
I see... > > In one of my system, I have two set of glibcs: the official, and > > my "customized version". I use a symlink to switch between both. > > But I'm not sure that this solution is feasible with the current > > glibc... > > I'll look at the source, and check the dependencies against NPTL. > > (As of LinuxThreads, there is a relatively clean seperation between > > glibc and llibpthread. I don't know if it's still hold). Even if it's > > OK, I'm not sure this fit with the Gentoo ebuild process... > > Be aware that things like nvidia-glx need re-emerging to select > the right thread model. Yes, I knew this already. I believe, mozilla is another candidate to the re-emerging... (I don't have a nvidia card BTW). But so far, I don't have anything with my 2.6.0 Kernel installed yet... So I'm safe (that's very relative!). One thing that I'm wondering, is if the magic "-pthread" flag of gcc links against to right libpthread... (LT or NPTL depending on the kernel version you are using). I have to do some more researchs on this... > > Alternatively, I could probably set-up several partitions, so that > > I'm sure to boot at least a stable version, even if things got > > definitively broken for the experimental one. I have to investigate > > this more closely. > This should be your goal IMHO. Yes. Definitively. I believe, I'd like to have e.g. both gcc-3.2.x and gcc-3.3, installed on different directory. I'm sure that possible with Gentoo... But I need first to search how to do this. > > > I once knew German. The difference is I didn't kill myself when I > > > used broken grammar. > > > > Oh... Killing software is not really a problem. That's sometimes > > means spending hours in re-installing all the things, but not more. > > Killing Hardware, that's more problematic ;-) Did you ever kill > > Hardware?. > Nope. glibc changes are unlikely to cause that. I knew... I have already killed some hardware with software. Once I damaged my floppy drive with a driver programmed by myself (it was written in ASM, and I made a mistake in a while loop... It looped indefinitively... As a result the floppy drive's head went to a place it shouldn't have go. Surprisingly, since then, I never wrote a broken while loop again...) I killed also more expensive hardwares, but I prefer to pass on these ones (it was more a mechanical mistake than a software one)... But fortunately, it doesn't happen to me so often. > XFree was written for this purpose. :-) > > > I'm really getting a positive feeling about the Gentoo's > > community! > I'm glad to see someone who takes the "tough love" (I'm not talking > about forced anal penetration ;) ) in a positive way. :-) Loic. -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualit�tssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
