On Saturday 17 September 2005 17:18, William Kenworthy wrote: > Are the nptl and nptlonly USE flags compatible with each other? yes > euse allows you to set both at once. Can they/should they both be set for > a normal system, or one *OR* the other? What info I have looked at so far > is a bit confusing.
Basically, nptl sets up native posix thread library. Now, some programs don't like nptl, and will break with it. If you don't set nptlonly, some non-nptl compatible libraries will be installed that you can switchover too. However that's become so old that I set nptlonly. With this, glibc is only built once (instead of twice, one for nptl and one for non-nptl) and your system is full nptl compatible. > BillK Chris White
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