On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Martin Stricker wrote:
"Barry K. Nathan" wrote:
http://math.uci.edu/~bnathan/linux/glibc/glibc-2.3.2-27.9.2bkn/
The i486 packages seem to work on an i686 box. I no longer have any real i486 or i586 boxes, and when I posted about this on rpm-list, nobody with an i586 box ever replied to me. If nobody tries this on a real i586 box, I could try to emulate an i586 one way or another, but that's another thing I haven't had time to do yet.
I'm typing this on a *real* i586 (Intel Pentium 166 MMX). I can do a fresh install of RHL 9 here (empty 4 GB partition). Please tell me what to do for the test, and I'll do it, maybe next weekend.
Sorry, I didn't have a chance to reply earlier.
I guess you should install RHL 9 on an i[45]86, then rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.2-27.9.2bkn.i486.rpm, glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.2bkn.i386.rpm, and any other glibc RPMs needed to resolve dependencies. Then reboot (just to make sure things work afterward -- I'm guessing you'll see tons of segfaults if things are broken), and run the following command: getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
and make sure it responds with NPTL not linuxthreads.
There might be other stuff to try for testing, but the above is a good start.
-Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com