[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Xen and glibc

[Bastian Blank]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 02:30:44PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> As already said on IRC, my main concern is that if we accept that, it 
> will be more difficult to refuse some more flavors. I don't want to end 
> up with 10 flavors of the glibc. If we stop to Xen, that's ok for me.

You can also change the default behaviour of gcc as the assumptions that
this works is not longer true even with glibc.. The setting have only
little impact on the speed.

> On the technical points::
> - The patch is not conditional, and it is currently not possible to use 
> different sources for different flavors. But as it is fixed in glibc 

Which patch? Can't you read which is written before?

> - How we detect to use this flavor and not the tls or the default one? 
> Is there any flag exported by the kernel? How is it done on other 
> distributions?

It is.

Bastian

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