Re: libc6 & ia32-libs
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:50:08AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote:
>> I'm unaware of this LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 'thingy', what is
>> it?
>>
>> And, to the other comment about libc being 'too new'
>> or 'too old' is there a way to figure out which it is,
>> and how to fix it?
>
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assumekernel.html
>
> It tells libc that this application is 'broken' and did things it wasn't
> supposed to and to please emmulate the 'broken' behaviour this
> application relies on.
>
> Doing a search for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL and quake, I found a message
> suggesting doing:
>
> bash# LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 quake3program
>
> Apparently it doesn't get along with native posix threads.
Doesn't that not work on amd64 since we only have support for 2.6
kernels and ntpl threads?
> Of course if it is released as open source by now, then you could
> probably just recompile it and solve the problem that way. Or fix it
> and recompile it if it really was a bug in the code.
>
> Len Sorensen
MfG
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