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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-10-20 21:18:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-10-20 21:18:11 +0000 |
| commit | 48244d09317581396dc0c22bdb69489dc0ea4c5a (patch) | |
| tree | 264b5c6adf13451da3abce523a64e459d3535ace /FAQ | |
| parent | 10411f2d14f7a567c0a38811e111751d33a4b3e8 (diff) | |
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Update.
* math/tgmath.h: Make nested function calls work.
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@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ please let me know. which is not acceptable for me. What can I do? 2.22. I just upgraded my Linux system to glibc and now I get errors whenever I try to link any program. +2.23. When I use nscd the machine freezes. 3. Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them @@ -223,16 +224,16 @@ to them. 1.5. Which compiler should I use for powerpc? -{GK} You want to use egcs 1.0.1 or later (together with the right versions +{GK} You want to use egcs 1.1 or later (together with the right versions of all the other tools, of course). -In fact, egcs 1.0.1 has a serious bug that prevents a clean make, relating -to switch statement folding. It also causes the resulting shared libraries -to use more memory than they should. There is a patch at: +In fact, egcs 1.1 has a bug that causes linuxthreads to be +miscompiled, resulting in segmentation faults when using condition +variables. There is a temporary patch at: -<http://discus.anu.edu.au/~geoffk/egcs-1.0.1-geoffk.diff> +<http://discus.anu.edu.au/~geoffk/egcs-3.diff> -Later versions of egcs may fix these problems. +Later versions of egcs may fix this problem. 1.6. Do I need some more things to compile GNU C Library? @@ -889,6 +890,19 @@ an installation of glibc that is configured with --prefix=/usr should help detect these situations. If the script reports problems, something is really screwed up. + +2.23. When I use nscd the machine freezes. + +{UD} It is well known that you cannot use nscd with Linux 2.0.*. There +is functionality missing in the kernel and work-arounds are not suitable. +Beside this some parts of the kernel are too buggy when it comes to using +threads. + +So you have the possibilities to run Linux 2.0.* or update to a higher +version and start using nscd. + +Note that I have at this point no information about any other platform. + . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |