Bug#204691: still not working in current libc6-i686

[Reinhard Tartler <rt@cafe.chummer.net>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:58:16AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > I have installed libc6-i686, version 2.3.2.ds1-11, and I am still
> > seeing this bug when trying to run winex. To use winex I have to
> > tell it to disable usage of pthreads completly. Transgaming claims
> > debian's libc responsible, since other distributions have bigger
> > stacksize.
> > 
> > Gotom spoke of a libc in experimental, but I suppose that it has
> > been replaces already.
> > 
> > Are there any other things I can try?
> 
> Hmm.  Your kernel is 2.6.3, so NPTL or i686-capable pthread should be
> used.  Could you execute ldd with your binaries?  If your binaries use
> newer pthread, ldd shows as follows:
> 
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
>         (0x4017a000)

ok, it was an environment issue here. Because of xmms crashing with this
lib i set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.25, which seems to cause trouble.
Without this setting winex3 doesnt complaint anymore with libc-i686.
Thanks for pointing out.

Perhaps this should be documented e.g. in debian-reference?

regards,
	Reinhard