[cl-debian] Re: [Sbcl-devel] sbcl with sb-threads not compatible with 2.4 kernel

[Thiemo Seufer]

R. Mattes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 23:32 +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Do people think it is better to have a sbcl that bombs out on 2.4 with 
> > > "you should run 2.6" or should I drop the threading on x86?
> > 
> > The Debian kernel team pushes strongly for 2.6 only (at least for i386
> > an amd64) and there's currently not much activity for 2.4 updates
> > beyond 2.4.27 for sarge. Some architectures may keep 2.4 for a while,
> > but for i386/amd64 it is de facto dead.
> 
> Argh, habe mercy with us poor sysadmins. The last thing i need to do
> is upgrade all of our servers to 2.6 only to keep sbcl happy :-/

Sarge will still retain 2.4.27 as installed default, only unstable will
change, which is hopefully not what you run on your servers. :-)

An additional sarge backport of a newer SBCL with threading disabled
might be useful.


Thiemo