Bug#219356: I also think libc6-i586 would be useful

[Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:07:27PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:21:16PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> > 
> > libc6-i686 won't work in a K6. An libc6-i586 would be useful for using
> > NPTL on a i586 (if it works, I recall at least Gentoo's glibc didn't
> > compile NTPL in a i586. I recall seeing somewhere it needed a couple of
> > small patches to work).
> > 
> > If NPTL works correctly in a 486, a libc6-i486 could be used instead of
> > a libc6-i586 (but I don't think enough people use a 486-class machine
> > nowadays for it to make sense; I see lots of Pentiums, Pentiums MMX and
> > K6s but few 486s around here).
> 
> The NPTL libraries included with the main libc6 package are already
> optimized for i486.  Doing them for i586 instead would be a little
> tricky.
> 

Ah, so the main libc6 packages already have NPTL? I don't need to
install libc6-i686 to get NPTL? Cool (you should make that more obvious
in the package description for libc6-i686, that you do not need it for
NPTL).

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Cesar Eduardo Barros
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