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

[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 couple of binary libraries. These do not work
correctly using NPTL. 
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[gentoo-dev] Re: have_NPTL proposal/question

[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 glibc has dropped support for linuxthreads on the trunk.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2005-05/msg00022.html
the only thing i know of that needs LT is Xen, and they're already 
working on NPTL support.

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