On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:12:04AM -0800, Wayne Gowcher wrote:
> H.J.
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> > The threads works well with glibc compiled with
> > -mips2. But the threads
> > in my RedHat 7.1 is broken when compiled with -mips2
> > :-(. I have fixed
> > it in glibc CVS.
>
> Just to clarify, the glibc rpm in your Redhat 7.1 is
> compiled with -mips1 right ? So as it is broken yes ?
Yes. -mips1 doesn't work well with thread.
>
> So if I REALLY wanted to use pthreads with your redhat
> 7.1 distribution, could I get away with checking out
> the current glibc from CVS, recompiling it and
> installing over the rpm glibc ? Or is that too
> simplistic, and it will need recompilation of a lot of
> other applications ?
It should be mostly ok if you use gcc 2.96. But glibc in CVS lacks
a few mips change in my glibc in RedHat 7.1. At least, you may want
glibc-2.2-mmap64.patch in my glibc.
H.J.
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