On 5/16/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If I use -nptlonly instead of +, do I still risk incompatibilities?
> >
> > with ntplonly you WILL have problems. With 'nptl', you can say the apps
> > which
> > implementation to use. Great for broken/old apps with problems. BUT if you
> > use ntplonly you can NOT go back, and if an app has a problem with nptl, you
> > are out of luck. So, just remove ntplonly from your make.conf and everything
> > will be fine. Since nptlonly should not be set by default, removing nptlonly
> > should be as good as -nptlonly ;)
>
> How do you tell an app to use linuxthreads instead? What is the point
> of +nptlonly? A more compact installation?
>
> - Grant
Well, I'm certainly no example of doing things right but I've been
running nptlonly for quite awhile now and I personally don't know of
any problems caused by running that way. Theer may certainly be apps
that don't like it but maybe I don't run them. I don't know. It works
for me.
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="mozilla gnome kde -arts ladspa nptl nptlonly ladcca audiofile
gimp gimpprint ppds usb alsa cdr dvd dvdr dvdread mmx sse sse2
mozcalendar caps jack jack-tmpfs fluidsynth tcltk sndfile v4l v4l2
mysql flac xscreensaver samba i8x0 mythtv apache2 lirc mjpeg xvid"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
Cheers,
Mark
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