Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Uli, do you make public snapshots available so that people can test the
> new libraries and maybe see system-wide performance issues?
It is already available. I've announced it on the NPTL mailing list a
couple of days ago. There is no support without NPTL since the TLS
setup isn't present in sufficient form in the LinuxThreads code which
has to work on stone-old kernels. But the NPTL code is more than stable
enough to run on test systems. In fact, I've a complete system running
using it.
Announcement:
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/phil-list/2002-December/000387.html
It is not easy to build glibc and you can easily ruin your system. You
need very recent tools, the CVS version of glibc and the NPTL add-on.
See for instance
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/phil-list/2002-December/000352.html
for a recipe on how to build glibc and how to run binaries using it
*without* replacing your system's libc. There have been That's save but
still the build is demanding. I know I'll be lynched again for saying
this, but it's the only experience I have: use RHL8 and get the very
latest tools (gcc, binutils) from rawhide. Then you should be fine.
If there is interest in RPMs of the binaries I might _try_ to provide
some. But this would mean replacing the system's libc.
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