SVN head breaks a lot of apps, 0.9.30 works

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:24:37PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>On Monday 23 February 2009 08:07:42 pm rhabarber1848 wrote:
>> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> 
>> > Meanwhile, try unsetting LINUXTHREADS_OLD=y in your .config, does it work
>> > after that? --
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> no. This activates LINUXTHREADS_NEW which I, unfortunately, was never able
>> to compile:
>> 
>>   CC libpthread/linuxthreads/sysdeps/powerpc/pspinlock.oS
>> libpthread/linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread/errno-loc.c:23:27: sysdep-cancel.h:
>> No such file or directory
>
>Apparently it stays that way since rev 13745 (three years old).
>That rev did "initial import of latest linuxthreads" which
>is likely never worked.
>
>I would say keeping this cruft around does more harm than good.

LT_NEW does not support all arches (same for LT_OLD).
If somebody wants to help to cut down on the number of thread impls
then go add support for your arch to NPTL which should replace both
LT_NEW and LT_OLD mid-term.