On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:34:53PM -0500, Steven J. Hill wrote: > If you are wanting to work with NPTL and MIPS, please use the latest > Linux version from the Linux/MIPS cvs tree. The latest releases of > binutils-2.16.x contain NPTL support for MIPS. You will need to use > the HEAD of gcc cvs and the HEAD of glibc cvs in order to get the > MIPS NPTL support. Please note that NO backport of NPTL will be done > to versions of GCC older than 4.1.0. Have fun. How stable is GCC is head? Hostorically thre have been periods of time when gcc itself wasn't stable or the code it produce wasn't stable.