Grant wrote: >>>If I use -nptlonly instead of +, do I still risk incompatibilities? >>> >>> >>with ntplonly you WILL have problems. With 'nptl', you can say the apps which >>implementation to use. Great for broken/old apps with problems. BUT if you >>use ntplonly you can NOT go back, and if an app has a problem with nptl, you >>are out of luck. So, just remove ntplonly from your make.conf and everything >>will be fine. Since nptlonly should not be set by default, removing nptlonly >>should be as good as -nptlonly ;) >> >> > >How do you tell an app to use linuxthreads instead? What is the point >of +nptlonly? A more compact installation? > > >
+nptlonly avoids building a second libc with linuxthreads supports. It saves compilation time and a bit of space. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
