On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 20:51 +1200, steve crosby wrote: > On 8/9/05, yang lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > then I have a question: in RH9 with kernel > > 2.4.20,/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 print the info : > > "NPTL 0.29 by Ulrich Drepper > > <snip> > > > it seem that the RH9 support the NPTL threadlib on gcc 3.2.2 in kernel > > 2.4.20 > > > > so ,why cannt lfs-5.1.1 support it ? > > Because RedHat pays full time programmers to modify the linux kernel > to support NTPL - in doing so, they also modify glibc, gcc, and many > other packages so they all work together (mostly) nicely. This is > Linux From Scratch, not RedHat From Scratch, so thats why we don't > provide support for using NTPL with Linux 2.4.x kernels. The effort to > include the changes RedHat (and other distributions) provide to stock > packages is simply too much for a very small volunteer community. > > -- - > Steve Crosby Jup, and because RH does put that much efford in patching things they make sure that many closes source commercial progs which are compiled with their distro will not run on distros with the same gcc/glibc/kernel version. Because they are not vanilla. Yea! lets start a flamewar against RH thehehe.
I (don't) wonder why commerial software vendors don't use a more or less vanilla distro to compile their software ... I thing this is one of the major problems gnu has, no common platform to start from ... Gnu is developing fast ... verry fast ... (almost) to fast to make profit, on the other hand commercial software is slow and to much bound to a platform to evolve. -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
