Re: [parisc-linux] glibc 2.5 & TLS linuxthreads (+ NPTL status)
"Carlos O'Donell" <[email protected]>
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On 2/5/07, Guy Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also what is the current status of NPTL on HPPA. Last time I tried it > > was building but they were some failures in the testsuite. I am > > currently building a test version here. Is it something stable enough > > that it can be used "in production"? I have seen Gentoo has made the > > switch... > > Nope, not yet, our test with glibc-2.5 resulted in segfault with all threaded stuff. > I hope you'll have more success :) 1. Retrieve glibc head. 2. Apply http://www.parisc-linux.org/~carlos/libc-head-2007-02-05.diff 3. Build. 4. Run testsuite. The NPTL support for hppa-linux is still alpha quality. The testsuite failures need examining and debugging. Cheers, Carlos.