Re: Moving glibc out of unstable

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:56:19AM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:21:35PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> > I'll also try to ia64/nptl in before then too.
> 
> I simply added the following patch and it seems to work.  This was
> just the obvious change, I may have missed something subtle.  I've
> checked it and stressed it as much as I know how, and it looks fine.
> 
> As an example
> 
> - test environment -
> ianw@tartufi:/local/ianw/bktree/linux-2.5-import$ uname -a
> Linux tartufi 2.6.0-test7 #1 SMP Wed Oct 22 15:01:19 EST 2003 ia64 GNU/Linux
> 
> - looking at ld.so.cache for right flags -
> ianw@tartufi:~$ sudo ldconfig -p | grep pthread
>         libpthread.so.0 (libc6,IA-64, hwcap: 0x8000000000000000, OS ABI: Linux 2.6.0) => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
>         libpthread.so.0 (libc6,IA-64, OS ABI: Linux 2.4.0) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
> 
> - checking ld sees new library -
> ianw@tartufi:~$ ldd /bin/ls | grep pthread
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x20000000002c8000)
> ianw@tartufi:~$ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0 ldd /bin/ls | grep pthread
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x20000000002d0000)
> 
> - performance test to see it really uses the new library -
> ianw@tartufi:~/pthreadbench$  ./lifecycle
> 337813 threads created in 4.9993 sec = 67572 per second
> ianw@tartufi:~/pthreadbench$ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0 ./lifecycle
> 43677 threads created in 5.00046 sec = 8735 per second
> 
> Thanks for making such great packages!

Wonderful.  Could you post the results of zgrep 'Error' in the
various log-test's in /usr/share/doc/libc6.1/?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer