Re: [issues] Help: using linuxthreads on eglibc 2.7 on ARM

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Rodolfo Zitellini <xhero.gm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > for a variety of reasons I have to do some tests using linuxthreads on
> > version 2.7. Is this possible? I see linuxthreads is included in the
> > subversion repository, but if I disable NPTL and enable linuxthreads
> > compiling miserably fails:
> 
> You should build a matching old version of glibc and linuxthreads:
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
> 
> IIRC linuxthreads stopped being supported circa glibc 2.6.
> 
> If you absolutely need to use glibc 2.7 with linuxthreads then you
> will have to (or hire someone) do the required development to
> bring the unsupported linuxthreads in line with the newer glibc.

The only reason I haven't deleted linuxthreads from the trunk of the 
EGLIBC repository is that Aurelien reported that it is still useful *for 
configurations with TLS but not NPTL, such as GNU/kFreeBSD* 
<http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00602.html>.  Configurations 
without TLS do not work at all now; configurations supporting NPTL should 
use NPTL.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx