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Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES configure.ac rpm/rpmdb/ Makefile.am

From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org>
Date: Thu 28 Jun 2007 - 21:45:24 CEST
Message-Id: <200706282145.24229.arekm@pld-linux.org>
On Thursday 28 of June 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 of June 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >
> >
> > The setup always has been nptl ready (glibc 2.6; >= 2.6.16 kernels)
>
> NPTL ready is not sufficient, there are explicit autoconf tests in
> Berkeley DB that
> will misbuild if the build system is not set up correctly.

checking for mutexes... POSIX/pthreads/library
is the good one afaik.

> Specifically, if nptl-devel
> is not installed, you will fail with exactly the above system.

nptl-devel - looks like some very ancient Linux distribution. Starting from 
glibc 2.4 there is no other option than NPTL (linuxthreads not even 
supported).


> "Robustness" adds the missing property, but is not in 2.6.17 AFAIK.

2.6.16 actually. 2.6.17 works fine.

So my problem is kernel related problem only.

> 73 de Jeff

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Arkadiusz Mi¶kiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
Received on Thu Jun 28 21:45:33 2007
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