On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 03:30, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 15 December 2003 12:07, N. Owen Gunden wrote: > > I'd like to start using NPTL for at least wine, with hopes of seeing > > performance enhancement. > > > > As I understand it, here's what I need to do: > > > > - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 > > - Set the nptl USE flag > > - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) > > - emerge wine > > This would do it. I'm not sure if wine would need to be re-emerged but it > wouldn't hurt. As I understand it, NPTL is a different implementation of the > threading API rather than a different API altogether. > > > I read somewhere that I should use GCC 3.3 (I'm using 3.2.3). Is there > > any truth to this? Is there any reason /not/ to upgrade GCC? > > I don't think that gcc3.3 necessary for NPTL. gcc3.3 has other advantages > (better optimization and such) but does not work for some apps. Fortunately, > most (maybe all?) problem apps have patches in portage already. > > > Do I need to re-emerge anything else? > > That should be it. Also be aware that some apps don't work with NPTL. The only > one I have come across is app-i18n/canna but there are sure to be others. > Probably very few, though.
This method worked for me perfectly over the weekend, although I re-emerged everything as I changed my cflags too... Wine does make direct use of the nptl use flag, so I guess it should be re-emerged. -- Tom Wesley
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