Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have_NPTL proposal/question

2005-05-15 Thread Graham Murray
R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the only thing i know of that needs LT is Xen, and they're already > working on NPTL support. Also the (user space) driver from Epson for the Stylus Photo R800 printer needs Linuxthreads. While much of this is available in source code form, it includes a coup

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have_NPTL proposal/question

2005-05-14 Thread Jan Kundrát
R Hill wrote: > the only thing i know of that needs LT is Xen, and they're already > working on NPTL support. IIRC, Xen has problems with Thread Local Storage. They have created some workaround, but it was very slow and buggy, and so they decided not to use NPTL (not sure about the last point). S

[gentoo-dev] Re: have_NPTL proposal/question

2005-05-12 Thread R Hill
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 11 May 2005 05:20 pm, Francesco Riosa wrote: what we have: At the moment have_NPTL is defined in eclass/eutils.eclass, it compile a small test program to check if glibc have nptl support. hasnt this been outgrown ? people should `use nptl` now i think in fact gli