On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:31:52PM -0600, Chris Tooley wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:10, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > > Geoff Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Do we have a definitive explanation of just how bad the current > > > wine/pthread incompatibilities are, and/or where current efforts are at? > > > I'd not known there were any efforts to get wine working with nptl > > > (hence my perhaps exaggerated alarm) until the link to Ingo's kernel > > > patch was posted (aug2002 moreover) which suggests at least that some > > > people *are* working on this (phew). I would be very grateful to know > > > what the status is. Anyone? TIA. > > > > I've been in touch with Ingo, and I'm looking into the issue. However > > I'm currently moving, so things are a bit hectic around here, and I > > don't have good internet access. Hopefully things will settle down a > > bit soon so that I can get some real work done... > > I realize that this discussion is targeted at a real solution to the > problem, however some of us are already in the situation and are too > dumb to know how to deal with it. On the RedHat Phoebe (Beta versions > already exhibit this problem) it was said that using > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 would solve the problem but that didn't work for > me. However, there was a workaround on the vmware newsgroup (vmware is > afflicted with a similar disease) that preloads a small .so to make it > work. This might be useful for some people. I've used it with some > success on my installation of wine. I've attached the modified > newsgroup posting below in case someone else would like it.
I posted the same thing 2 weeks ago on wine-patches if someone wants to go that way for now ;) It will not work when the NPTL threading is enabled, see the other discussions. Ciao, Marcus