Re: [patches] [PATCH] fix build with linuxthreads

[Mark Mitchell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aurelien Jarno wrote:

>> I'd have thought the right thing to do is to remove Linuxthreads from 
>> /trunk and /fsf/trunk to make clear it is no longer a useful part of 
>> EGLIBC.
> 
> FSF has also declared linuxthreads dead, but the fact is that modulo a
> few patches, and as long as you have TLS support, it still works
> correctly with glibc 2.9 and above.
> 
> I don't think EGLIBC should officially supports linuxthreads, but having
> this kind of small patch applied won't hurd EGLIBC and would help those
> still using linuxthreads.

If it's just a matter of a few simple patches, it seems appropriate to
me for EGLIBC to support LinuxThreads.  A core goal for EGLIBC is
inclusiveness; if it's useful to users to have LinuxThreads support,
then it makes sense to include it.  In addition to HPPA and
GNU/kFreeBSD, we know that ColdFire/68K Linux kernels don't presently
support NPTL either.  If there are ways to let these architectures use
later (E)GLIBC, that seems desirable to me.

Of course, that's not a comment on the patches themselves, which would
need to be reviewed on their technical merits.

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