On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:49, Richard Fish wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:55, Zac Medico wrote: > >>Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>>but there is enough stuff out there, that does not work with ntpl. > >>>So recommending ntplonly is irresponsible. > >> > >>No problems here. I'd expect people to do their own research before > >> making the switch. Plus, you can swap in a linuxthreads glibc at any > >> time if need be, right? > > > >yeah, but problems are known. So there are good reasons NOT to use > > ntplonly or to advise to use it generally. > > > >And if you mean 'reemerge glibc' you are right, you can always 'swap' them > >around. > > What problems? bugs.gentoo.org only lists a few open bugs when I search > for nptl, that even mention nptl, and the only apps mentioned are > bittornado or skype. The bittornado one is more than a year old, while > the skype one seems more like a artsd problem. No bugs are found when I > search for nptlonly. > > I personally have been using nptlonly for 6 months on my P4, without > incident. Are these problems only on non-x86 platforms? > > -Richard
try older binary only software. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
