* Dan Kegel (dank(a)kegel.com) wrote:
Not many people are running the new glibc+kernel combination. It's been hard to do until recently.
I think the key thing for the moment is to get a few developers set up with it (either via Red Hat 8.1 beta, or via Gentoo (more work, but much more control), or maybe a Suse beta).
Perhaps compiling a UML 2.5.*-based kernel and making a small LFS-style root filesystem downloadable would be a good idea? I agree the development problem is likely to be aggravated by few developers having any great desire to work inside such a flakey, bleeding edge system as the modern kernel and glibc would currently require, so perhaps a UML environment (with multiple "before and after" kernel versions) would feel more comfortable? I happen to follow the UML mail lists (for similar reasons to why I monitor the wine project) and I suspect there are some people and tools there that might help us if we want and/or need them. However, I think the question is for those wine developers that grok and hack the threading code; is there something along these lines I (and/or anyone else) could do to help you? Cheers, Geoff -- Geoff Thorpe geoff(a)geoffthorpe.net http://www.geoffthorpe.net/