On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:08:16AM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 06:43:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > >> > And Nikita just pointed out there's libc6-i686. It might make sense to > >> > add > >> > linux-i686 too. I'm open for discussing that, but this discussion doesn't > >> > belong on the ITP bug. > >> > >> And why is it only for 2.6 kernels? The processor specific package should > >> support NPTL, and it doesn't require 2.6... > > > > That sentence is contradictory - NPTL requires 2.6. > > But there should be a non-NPTL i686-optimized libc6 too, as in > /lib/i686/cmov/ in addtion to the current /lib/tls/i686/cmov/.
Gotta draw the line somewhere. We chose to draw it there. Building glibc four times on x86 hardware seems to be a bit excessive for our needs. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
