Re: glibc-2.3.2 NPTL caveat

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:34:26 +0000, Tim Cutts <tjrc@sanger.ac.uk> said:

  Tim> That explains a lot of problems we had with MySQL crashing
  Tim> almost instantly on startup on IA64 machines too.

Hmmh, was this problem reported somewhere?

  Tim> So what needs to be done?

If you run on Debian, the easiest workaround for now is probably to
invoke the program via /lib/tls/ld-linux-ia64.so.2.

Of course, you could also force the use of the LinuxThread-based libc
by setting environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.18, but if you
want NPTL, that's not a useable solution.

	--david