CentOS 4.0 -> 4.1 update failing

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Mon, June 20, 2005 1:18 pm, Johnny Hughes said:
>> Quoting alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>> What might be checked first is if FC3 NPTL fix for i386 glibc is
>>> reallity?  Is
>>> it included with RHEL4 glibc?
>>
>> I just took a quick look at the RHEL4 glibc spec file.  It contains
>> lines:
>>
>> %define nptlarches i386 i686 athlon x86_64 ia64 s390 s390x sparcv9 ppc
>> ppc64
>>
>> and then:
>>
>> %ifarch %{nptlarches}
>> %define enablekernelnptl 2.4.20
>> %ifarch i386
>> %define nptl_target_cpu i486
>> %define tls_subdir tls/i486
>> %else
>> %define nptl_target_cpu %{_target_cpu}
>> %define tls_subdir tls
>> %endif
>> %endif
>>
>> So, I'd say just compile it for i386, and it should work correctly.
>> It'll
>> use
>> i486 instructions for NPTL support.  Some testing to see if NPTL is
>> really
>> working might be needed.  That's apperently the way Red Hat is doing it,
>> so
>> CentOS should follow.
>>
>
> RedHat doesn't support i586 support at all with CentOS-4 ... not via the
> kernel or glibc.  CentOS (starting with version 3.3) built an i586 kernel.
>
I meant with RHEL-4 :)