Re: pthreads version needed
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:42:00AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:10:02PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>
> > I've been unable to find the version of pthreads that I need. I've
> > looked (iwth objdump) at the prebuilt libc6 package (2.2.5-14.3) and
> > also through the glibc sources but it's unclear to me how to
> > configure them to get what I need. In short, I need a version of
> > libc6 built to to use the GS segment register to access
> > pthread-local storage. I am running debian testing, kernel 2.4.18,
> > libc6 version 2.2.5-14.3 on a pentium 3.
>
> If I understand right, you're looking for a TLS-enabled version of
> glibc. Drepper originally had this planned for 2.3, but it wasn't
> ready in time so has been disabled by default.
>
> If this is really important to you, you could take the upstream source
> and configure it with --enable-tls and work directly with them on
> bugs. This isn't a supported config, so you should expect to have to
> do some hacking to get it to work with very little support from anyone
>
> Sorry I don't have better news for you.
No, --enable-tls is the successor to what Richard is talking about. I
believe building glibc with an appropriate --enable-kernel= version
will do it; I don't remember what the appropriate version is but that
file should make it clear. Ah, 2.4.0 will work.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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