Hi, > > I'm not quite sure how you can work around it without > > going through rebuilding glibc. > > I'm willing to jump through some hoops. I've done `apt-get source glibc`. Any > tips on how to disable TLS / NPTL and compile a new package would be most > appreciated! see debian/sysdeps/amd64.mk, replace nptl with linuxthreads, and go through the hoops, as you described. I think you are mostly on your own from here. Good luck. regards, junichi