> Firebird 1.5.1 RC 2 SS NPTL Builds
> Where NPTL =
> Native Posix Threads Library. Used in RH9, Fedora, and possibly
> some other Linux distributions. These builds provide better thread
> support (M:N, futex, etc.), and are designed to be fully backwards
> compatible with the old libpthread library. Unfortunately, regardless
> of what the Linux distributors said, it was not OK - FB1.5, built
> without NPTL support, did crash sporadically on NPTL-enabled systems.
> These new builds with full NPTL support appear to work correctly.
>
> SuperServer RPM: FirebirdSS-1.5.1.4475-0.i686.nptl.rpm
> SuperServer Tar: FirebirdSS-1.5.1.4475-0.i686.nptl.tar.gz
> Debug Build: FirebirdSS-debuginfo-1.5.1.4475-0.i686.nptl.tar.gz
>
> Any issues, problems, please report to the firebird development list.
>
> Regards
> Paul

Before I try the RPM version of NPTL builds, can you tell me if they
insall/update/overwrite the existing build installed via the tar ball
INSTALL script? or do they (notoriously) install to a completely different
directory structure?
I tried the RPM version on my RH9 and they don't work at all. Complained of
wrong architecture i686 Vs i386 .. hmm but noone here has commented on this
so maybe I'm the only one it has affected so far... strange.
(I love the way apache rpm's to one dir structure one minute and then a
minor update later, they update to a completely different place. And yet
again, if you build it yourself you get a third place. Hope FB doesn't go
down this path.)
Alan