If you want NPTL only, and not linuxthreads also, you have to add the USE flags nptlonly AND nptl to /etc/make.conf. That way, Gentoo doesn't compile linuxtheads.
Some people running regular x86 systems seem to have problems with this, but I'm running ~x86 systems, and haven't had any problems. YMMV Robert Crawford On Friday 29 April 2005 10:54 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > I have recently built a new Gentoo 2005.0 box with a stage3 tarball. I > > set the NPTL flag (among others) and rebuilt the entire system. It does > > not appear that NPTL is sticking and I am not at all sure why; instead > > it has pulled in the linuxthreads package. Can anybody help out here? > > You probably have both. If you look at the output of the glibc build > you'll see a note indicating that both NPTL and linuxthreads are built and > installed by gentoo. > > All of my systems report linuxthreads although I too have NPTL installed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
