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Re: consistency in glibc add-on directory names?

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>,libc-ports at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:08:47 -0400
Subject: Re: consistency in glibc add-on directory names?
References: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510031552370.3367@localhost.localdomain> <20051003200226.6635B180E25@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:02:26PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > so as long as i have no interest in supporting any 2.4.x kernels, i'm
> > safe to use exclusively NPTL, then?  good.

If you're using architectures that NPTL supports.

Today, I believe the only mainstream missing piece is m68k.  I didn't
check exhaustively though.

> Yes.  That is the only fully supported configuration nowadays.
> (Dan or other folks might help you with linuxthreads, but we don't
> consider linuxthreads to be glibc bugs any more.)  For 2.3.x
> bug-fix releases, we will make some effort to avoid regressions
> from 2.3.5 linuxthreads behavior.

Yes, what Roland said.  I am hoping to release a version of
LinuxThreads with 2.4, time permitting.  Probably not past there,
however.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

References:
- Re: consistency in glibc add-on directory names?
  - From: Robert P. J. Day
- Re: consistency in glibc add-on directory names?
  - From: Roland McGrath

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