Need Help building glibc with NPTL support for ARM Linux 2.4.20

[Andrew Chalmers]

Mike,

Are you sure NPTL requires linux-2.6? I've seem numerous reference on the net to 
NPTL under linux 2.4. My understanding is that 2.4.18 or 2.4.20 onwards includes 
the necessary features to support NPTL. But I cannot find any confirmation of 
this anywhere.
I gather Daniel Jacobowitz did most of the ARM NTPL support for GCC and GLIBC 
but I cannot find any specifics about patched or stable release versions.

Will I have any more luck building the tool chain with 2.6 headers anyway? Which 
versions should I use?

I've seen it written that you can build glibc against a newer version of the 
kernel headers than the target kernel. Would that work if you build against 2.6 
headers and run 2.4.20 on the target? (My gut feel is that something is bound to 
break.)

Is there a NPTL support page that works? The link form the various copies of the 
original NPTL announcement on the net, all give me a unresponsive Redhat page.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Andrew Chalmers wrote:
>> I'm looking for some help getting NPTL working for an ARM linux target. The
>> target kernel is a 2.4.20
> 
> it isnt going to happen.  NPTL requires linux-2.6.  time to upgrade your 
> system.
> -mike