Re: NPTL / libpthread.a

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:51:18 -0800,
Blunt Jackson wrote:
> I have noticed that in the Sarge/Kernel 2.6 combo, glibc is not
> providing an archive of the NPTL libpthread.a for purposes of static
> linking, but it *does* provide a static LinuxThreads libpthread.a.
> 
> This leads to the puzzling scenario in which default dynamic linking
> picks up NPTL, but *no* statically linked app can make use of NPTL.
> (Aside, perhaps, from using dlopen!)

Yes, you're correct.  It was reported in:

	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276062

> Is there a known workaround / separate package / etc. that would
> provide this library?

Currently, no - but we'll ship it.  Sorry for your inconvenience.

Regards,
-- gotom