new in 2005-7-9 glibc: no more LinuxThreads

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Fri Jul 8 19:54:05 UTC 2005


On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:24:57PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Tomorrows glibc will contain the last act of the LinuxThreads saga: its
> > total demise.  It's gone for good.
> 
> Thanks for the head up. I am running rawhide, but have one application
> that uses LT and that has to work for another month or so (Matlab R13).
> 
> So glibc will have to be excluded from the update frenzy :)

There will be a mass rebuild of all packages hopefully soon, and once
that is done, all packages will require that glibc.  So at that point
you'll need to stop updating altogether or give up apps that rely on
LinuxThreads.

	Jakub




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