On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:12:04AM -0800, Wayne Gowcher wrote: > H.J. > > Thank you for your reply. > > > The threads works well with glibc compiled with > > -mips2. But the threads > > in my RedHat 7.1 is broken when compiled with -mips2 > > :-(. I have fixed > > it in glibc CVS. > > Just to clarify, the glibc rpm in your Redhat 7.1 is > compiled with -mips1 right ? So as it is broken yes ? Yes. -mips1 doesn't work well with thread. > > So if I REALLY wanted to use pthreads with your redhat > 7.1 distribution, could I get away with checking out > the current glibc from CVS, recompiling it and > installing over the rpm glibc ? Or is that too > simplistic, and it will need recompilation of a lot of > other applications ? It should be mostly ok if you use gcc 2.96. But glibc in CVS lacks a few mips change in my glibc in RedHat 7.1. At least, you may want glibc-2.2-mmap64.patch in my glibc. H.J.
