Subject Re: [firebird-support] V1.5.1 NPTL installations
Author Jonathan Neve
Paul Beach wrote:

>>From the V1.5.1 Release Notes:
>
>Firebird Superserver has a link-time backward compatibility issue with the NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) that may cause it to
>be unstable on Linux distributions that enable the NPTL in the GNU C library, e.g. Red Hat 9, Mandrake 10 and Fedora Core. The new
>NPTL builds of Superserver should solve these problems.
>
>The downloads/installs are now available. Thanks to Alex for this.
>
>
I'm not sure whether my Linux version has a problem with this... Is it
safe to take the NPTL builds anyway? Will it work? Are there any
advantages/disadvantages?

Thanks!

Jonathan Neve.