NPTL is now the default library for building new programs

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Apr 4 08:05:24 UTC 2005


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

RHL9 already had NPTL as does RHEL3; any other 2.6 based distro has NTPL
as well. In addition you generally can't run "latest glibc" compiled
apps on older distros, compatibility is mostly unidirectional anyway.
And all newer distros have NPTL.

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