[cl-debian] Bug#330468: sbcl: Can't start sbcl with kernel 2.4.27-2-686

[Peter Van Eynde]

On Friday 30 September 2005 10:48, Didier Verna wrote:
> Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd at mailworks.org> wrote:
> > Expect a 2.4 sbcl, without threading, in my people.debian.org repositry
> > soon.
>
>         Thanks. BTW, I'm surprised that precompiled 2.4 kernels don't
> support multi-threading ?

They do, but in 2.4 threading was done in a completely different way when in 
2.6. For the C world this resulted in a move from pthreads to the NPTL 
library, for sbcl this enabled the use of more complex features.

The end effect is that it now only works for a 2.6 kernel, even 2.4 kernel 
that are patched to allow the use of the NPTL library seem to pose 
intermittend problems, so I decided it was better to err on the side of 
caution.

Groetjes, Peter

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