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| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/install.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/install.1 b/man/man1/install.1 index e070ffba..8a3155e7 100644 --- a/man/man1/install.1 +++ b/man/man1/install.1 @@ -40,7 +40,17 @@ can safely be repeated to rebuild the system from scratch. The system uses different threading implementations on Linux 2.6 and later kernels than on 2.4 and earlier; and on FreeBSD 5 and later kernels than on FreeBSD 4 and earlier. -Running binaries from one class on another may not work. +Running binaries from one class on another will not work. +.PP +Some Linux 2.6 systems (e.g., Gentoo) do not use the new NPTL pthread library +even though the kernel supports them. On these systems, plan9port must +fall back on the threading code intended for Linux 2.4. To accomplish this, +.I INSTALL +checks whether the running system uses NPTL and sets +.B SYSVERSION +in +.B \*9/config +accordingly. .SH FILES .TP .B \*9/lib/moveplan9.files |