[ELDK] glibc change for eldk 3.1.1

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Levend Sayar",

In message <961D30E8F4BE4A33B6E9BBD9964E2FF6 at levendsayar> you wrote:
> 
> Thanks your reply. Yes I know, changing thread library is also a significant impact but NPTL is better than LinuxThreads which is 
> obsolete right now.
> So that impact would be in a positive way I think.

Indeed. But the way to gett here includes switching to a Linux 2.6
kernel.

> In fact, we are trying to port openldap on ppc. openldap uses BerkeleyDB backend.
> When you compile BerkeleyDB and openldap with ELDK 3.1.1 toolchain, BerkeleyDB
> complains as "function not implemented" for mutex implementation of glibc 2.3.1 in ELDK 3.1.1.

One more reason to switch to the (2.6 Linux) based ELDk 4.2.

> I thought that Posix Pthread implementation of NPTL would be better than LinuxThreads. So I tried what I said before.

There is either pthread, which has nothing to do with NPTL, or NPTL.
If you want NPTL, then you go for a LInux 2.6 kernel.  There is no way
around this.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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