Re: libc6-i686 only for 2.6 kernels? was: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:29:06PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> It could.  I decided that building four was excessive and having
> the act of installing libc6-i686 act to disable NPTL would be a little
> bit too strange.

Can you clue me in as to why the non-optimized libc6 package will work with
non-ntpl-2.4, but the optimizations won't activate unless you have a 2.6 or
nptl-2.4 kernel?

Is it file locations, or somesuch?  I saw something that might hint to that
in this thread in another message.

Thanks,

Mike