Re: NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads.

Jeff Bailey a écrit :
> On 19/02/07, Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> if the breakage is just in pthreads, i dont think the libc ABI needs to be
>>>> bumped, just the pthread one ?  libc provides look ahead stub functions for
>>>> pthreads, so it shouldnt be affected by the breakage you've mentioned with
>>>> static lock initializers ...
>>>>
>>>> libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread.so.1
>>> While it's definetly Ubuntu and Debian's problem, not upstream's,
>>> libpthread is bundled in the "libc6" package.  Bumping just the
>>> libpthread version will make packaging hard for those distros.  If
>>> there are other ABI breaking moves that need to be done that would
>>> cause a bump from libc6, doing them now would help sidestep the
>>> problem.
>> Well I am thinking in splitting out libpthread.so.X from the libc6
>> package if the ABI breakage is confirmed. This is still a very
>> complicated transition, but I think far less packages are affected.
> 
> Well, the ABI breakage is confirmed.  I just remember people siting
> some other corner case problems with the ABI they wanted to change.
> Now would be a great time to change it all over if we need to do this.

You mean on hppa? Do you remember the proposed changes, or the people
wanted to change that?

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