* On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:59:05 +0100, Jens Mayer wrote:
[...]
> Having to drop NPTL for continuing "x86" seems to have caused
> a lot of trouble for some people, and moving to "~x86" to be able to
> use NPTL is not really painless, neither.
> I'm a bit at a loss what's the better solution for me at the moment.
JFY:
After having completed my regular backups, I dared to upgrade my
glibc to 2.3.2-r9, removing NPTL from /etc/make.conf.
Everything seems to be fine with my upgraded system, it reboots
and did not show any obscurities yet.
Having removed NPTL, you can see my actual useflags below. I cut
the 'emerge info' output to the points that might be of any
importance to someone comparing configuration settings.
,---- [ emerge info ]
|
| Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.0)
| =================================================================
| System uname: 2.6.0 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
| Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
| ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
| CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -mmmx -m3dnow -pipe"
| FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
| MAKEOPTS="-j2"
| USE="3dnow X aalib acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups
| dga directfb dvd dvdr encode esd fam fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm ggi gif
| gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jpeg kde lcms
| libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql
| ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt
| quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd
| tetex tiff truetype usb videos x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
|
`----
On a second box (my Sony Vaio laptop), I went the opposite way and
upgraded the whole system to ~x86, keeping the NPTL useflag and
compiling more than 300 packages. ;)
Even though I commented my "~x86"-settings in /etc/make.conf with
"# ask for trouble and FU my lovely system BAR", everything went fine
here, too. ;) Of course I had to fix a few things manually, but it
was pretty painless compared to what I expected.
Once again, I'm astonished of the superb work of the gentoo folks.
Thank you!
Regards,
Jens
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