[parisc-linux] Re: NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads.

[Jeff Bailey]

On 19/02/07, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net> wrote:
> >> if the breakage is just in pthreads, i dont think the libc ABI needs to be
> >> bumped, just the pthread one ?  libc provides look ahead stub functions for
> >> pthreads, so it shouldnt be affected by the breakage you've mentioned with
> >> static lock initializers ...
> >>
> >> libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread.so.1
> >
> > While it's definetly Ubuntu and Debian's problem, not upstream's,
> > libpthread is bundled in the "libc6" package.  Bumping just the
> > libpthread version will make packaging hard for those distros.  If
> > there are other ABI breaking moves that need to be done that would
> > cause a bump from libc6, doing them now would help sidestep the
> > problem.
>
> Well I am thinking in splitting out libpthread.so.X from the libc6
> package if the ABI breakage is confirmed. This is still a very
> complicated transition, but I think far less packages are affected.

Well, the ABI breakage is confirmed.  I just remember people siting
some other corner case problems with the ABI they wanted to change.
Now would be a great time to change it all over if we need to do this.

> I am a bit busy right now, but I think we should put our transition
> ideas (at least for Debian, and probably Ubuntu) on a wiki, for example
> http://wiki.debian.org/HppaNptlTransition

Sounds good.  I've added doko to the cc: list.

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