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Re: Glibc Packaging Issues



Rob Browning writes:
> Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> writes:
> > osiris >FWIW, after switching to LinuxThreads here a couple of weeks ago and
> > osiris >recompiling X and libg++ with -D_REENTRANT, we have had much better
> > osiris >behavior than we did when using MIT pthreads.
> > 
> > glibc compiles per default with -D_REENTRANT.
> 
> Yes, and the current libc5 is compiled with -D_REENTRANT, but that
> doesn't help if the other libraries you need (libg++, X, Tk, etc.) are
> not compiled with -D_REENTRANT.  I've spoken to Stephen at least, and
> I think he's going to compile the next X reentrant anyway...

I don't think it's officially been decide yet, but most of us are in
favor of compiling all libraries with -D_REENTRANT for Debian 1.3.

David
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