Re: Re: Xen and reiser4

["Jan Kundrát" <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>]

Jerome Brown wrote:
>>> That's the exactly the thing which I didn't want to do, I want to 
>>> build glibc with linuxthreads and nptl
>>
>>
>> Look at your $PORTDIR/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-<version>.ebuild, locate 
>> want_tls function and add "return 1" as the first line of the 
>> function. This is ugly hack, but should work (not tested). 
>> Disadvantage is that it won't survive `emerge sync`, but you can add 
>> it into $PORTDIR_OVERLAY...
> 
> 
> If you compile glibc with the nptl USE flag it will compile both NTPL 
> and LinuxThreads into glibc. If you have specified the ntplonly USE flag 
> then it will not compile LinuxThreads. Check to see if you have the 
> nptlonly flag defined (most of the tutorials I remember looking at say 
> to define it). If so, remove it and recompile glibc. You shouldn't need 
> to recompile anything else, as the nptlonly USE flag only applys to 
> glibc, so everything else should work fine from there.

If I'm not mistaken, NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) is a replecement 
of LinuxThreads, threads implementation library used as default under 
pre-2.6 kernels. TLS (Thread Local Storage) is AFAIK something else (at 
least I think so because Ming wants to have NPTL enabled but TLS disabled).

I've created gentoo bugreport - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77678

-jkt

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