From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 02:59:01 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: DB_THREAD support in Berkeley DB/glibc Message-ID: <19991228025900.A1950@drow.res.cmu.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from hozer@drgw.net on Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 09:04:12PM -0600 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: If I'm not mistaken, David Huggins-Daines did this recently. It is in the debian packages of glibc in the latest release. On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 09:04:12PM -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > I've just figured out that the reason openldap doesn't work is that it > assumes all platforms support the DB_THREAD argument for db_appinit. > > After looking at the glibc/Berkeley DB source, it turns out that all it > needs is 10 or so lines of ASM for spinlocks. > > Could someone working on glibc developement add the required ASM and get > this into the mainline distribution? Thanks. > > (look in glibc/db2/mutex, I believe ) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Troy Benjegerdes | troy@blacklablinux.com | hozer@drgw.net | > | Unix is user friendly... You just have to be friendly to it first. | > | This message composed with 100% free software. http://www.gnu.org | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | dan@debian.org | | dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/