Re: getting back up to speed

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> working with the latest "svn update" of the standard crosstool, i
> notice that there a single .dat file that refers to
> nptl: gcc-4.1.1-glibc-2.3.5-nptl.dat.
> but the contents are confusing:
> 
> BINUTILS_DIR=binutils-2.16.1
> GCC_CORE_DIR=gcc-3.3.6
> GCC_DIR=gcc-4.1.1
> GLIBC_DIR=glibc-2.3.5
> LINUX_DIR=linux-2.6.15.4
> LINUX_SANITIZED_HEADER_DIR=linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0
> GLIBCTHREADS_FILENAME=glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.5
> GDB_DIR=gdb-6.5
> GLIBC_EXTRA_CONFIG="$GLIBC_EXTRA_CONFIG --with-tls --with-__thread  --enable-kernel=2.4.18"
> GLIBC_ADDON_OPTIONS="=nptl"

I guess the last line is what is important: the only addon used is NPTL,
not linuxthreads. Now what iscrosstool doing with it? Lemme see...

>   i thought the whole point of NPTL was to not *need* linuxthreads.
> so why is there a reference to linuxthreads in the above?

That's something I'll have to sort out... :-(

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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