libgcj and the NPTL posix threads implementation

Mon Mar 1 21:21:00 GMT 2004

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Eventually the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL kludge will go away, but until then we
> have to deal with the possibility that people will use gcj with
> libraries that need to use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.3. We don't want to
> break libgcj in such situations.

If "we" == "Linux distribution vendors", then yes definitely. But I'd
expect nearly everyone building and using their own gcj would want
Anthony's patch.
Not that I'm advocating yet-another configure switch...
Jeff