On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:18, Curtis Rey wrote:
Now they (wulfram, TG rep of some sort) claims that we should "Update your version of glibc. The one that came with SuSE 8.2 is somewhat broken.".
The fact of the matter is I tried it with the default and a stable upgrade rpm for SuSE. They seem to want to step around the issue. Hence why I'm gatthering info. I hate contributing to something and then hearing BS from them. They have a habit of doing this. I'm pressing them and they are telling me these sorts of things. I'm along your line of thinking... What difference should it make. I guess they think that since 8.2 had a pre-release it doesn't work but like I said, "there" latest version doesn't work with the defauilt (pre-release) or the update. I think they're getting annoyed - mainly because they just release a version they say will run a host of new games and people are having issues (and SuSE users have always had this complaint). I'm beginning to think the place is populated with RH fanboys, which is no prob - right up to the point where they start dissing my Distro. Then I tend to get a bit...., let's say antagonistic.
I'm using the latest Winex and was curious as well. What I was able to
determine is that the pthread library that Winex wants to use from the
glibc is the NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) that is currently being
developed at Redhat. Apparently Redhat 9.0 shipped with a version of
this library. SuSE decided not to implement the NPTL for this release
and stayed with the LinuxThreads pthread library.
Personally, from looking at how fast the developer is releasing bug
fixes and new releases of the NPTL library, SuSE made the correct
decision to not include it with 8.2. While the library may work well it
is obviously not stable yet.
So my take isn't that the glibc in SuSE is somewhat broken, it is that
the glibc in Redhat is somewhat experimental and possibly buggy and
instable.
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Paul Varner