Re: [gNewSense-users] NPTL vs. linuxthreads

[Paul O'Malley]

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Yoni Rabkin Katzenell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> To the best of my understanding, gNewSense is based on Dapper Drake. On
> dapper I get NPTL:
> 
> dapper-system:$ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
> NPTL 2.3.6
> 
> Yet on vanilla gNewSense I get linuxthreads:
> 
> gnewsense-system:$ getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
> linuxthreads-0.10
> 
> Since I need NPTL for work, I would be very happy for a hint as to why
> the discrepancy exists. Though I will continue to look for it myself.
> 
> Since I don't see anything in the builder scripts which would change
> glibc, I'm wondering if NPTL support was opted out of the gnewsense
> kernel. But I don't know how to test for that (or if that is at all
> possible).
> 
Hi,

I don't know exactly why it is not in the kernel.
Have you tried to recompile with it in (assuming it is in the source).

Regards,

Paul
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