On Sunday 18 February 2007, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads, we > have broken the pthread ABI. > <snip> > It has been recommended that we bump to libc6.1 for NPTL. Is that a > good idea? Are there any comments about how to make such a transition > smooth for debian, gentoo, and ubuntu? if the breakage is just in pthreads, i dont think the libc ABI needs to be bumped, just the pthread one ? libc provides look ahead stub functions for pthreads, so it shouldnt be affected by the breakage you've mentioned with static lock initializers ... libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread.so.1 -mike
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