On 2/5/07, Guy Martin <gmsoft@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Also what is the current status of NPTL on HPPA. Last time I tried it > was building but they were some failures in the testsuite. I am > currently building a test version here. Is it something stable enough > that it can be used "in production"? I have seen Gentoo has made the > switch... Nope, not yet, our test with glibc-2.5 resulted in segfault with all threaded stuff. I hope you'll have more success :)
1. Retrieve glibc head. 2. Apply http://www.parisc-linux.org/~carlos/libc-head-2007-02-05.diff 3. Build. 4. Run testsuite. The NPTL support for hppa-linux is still alpha quality. The testsuite failures need examining and debugging. Cheers, Carlos.