On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 07:00:36AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:54:30AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > the Hurd/Mach still has no TLS or __thread support. This is not that > > big of a problem as there is --without-tls, but glibc-2.4 uses __thread > > unconditionally at one place and Ulrich Drepper refused to support > > systems without __thread support (see > > http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-08/msg00091.html ). > > > > The attached patch fixes building on system without __thread support > > (i.e. hurd-i386), is it OK to apply to the 2.4 branch? > > If it works, it looks ok to me. > > Actually this may even be needed for other architectures. It is still > (ie in 2.3.6) use for alpha, sparc (64-bit flavour) and i386. I have > tried to build the i386 package with --with-__thread now that we have > TLS support on i386, but it failed. No time to investigate though. > > Also we still have a few architectures without TLS support (arm, hppa, > m68k, mips, mipsel), at least in 2.3.6. > > Things may have evolved with 2.4 though, I haven't checked.
So should this patch go into any/local-__thread.diff rather than hurd-i386/? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
