NPTL is now the default library for building new programs

Sun Apr 3 19:38:59 UTC 2005

--On Saturday, April 02, 2005 1:55 PM -0500 Jakub Jelinek 
<jakub at redhat.com> wrote:

> glibc-2.3.4-19 which ought to appear in rawhide tomorrow will contain next
> step leading to removal of LinuxThreads.

Should you copy this to -dev to give them a heads-up that this is coming?

> To build programs that will work with both LinuxThreads and NPTL
> you need to install now linuxthreads-devel package and compile/link
> with -I/usr/include/linuxthreads -L/usr/lib{,64}/linuxthreads.

Does it hurt to do this now? Will such stuff work fine on shipping distros? 
What would be the downside of doing this?