Solved problem with loki games (Sim City) & NPTL

gralves · Last edited by gralves on Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:59 am; edited 1 time in total

It is possible to remain using nptl and run simcity 3000. You just have to use 2 different glibc versions (one compiled with and one without it). The good news is that the last glibc ebuild (2.3.4-20041006) takes care of it for you.

WARNING: It is -* masked, I'm not responsible if emerging it break your system.

echo =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20041006 -* >>/etc/portage/packages.keywords
emerge -av glibc (make sure you have -nptlonly)
(Wait a long time)

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 sc3u

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edit: corrected typo on glibc version. Valeu Vanq!

Vanquirius · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot, this did the trick for me.

One small note, I believe it is glibc-2.3.4.20041006 instead of glibc-2.3.4-20041006.

Cheers,
Vanq
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PrakashP · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:52 am Post subject:

Fro me using that glibc version broke compiling qt. Perhaps you just try to (re)emerge qt.

gralves · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject:

I don't use qt, but if this ebuild broke the compiling of qt you should post a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org .

PrakashP · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject:

Well, they would want more info, and I haven't written down the error, so I really don't want to recompile glibc and qt just for this...

Dr Gonzo · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:55 am Post subject:

I'm confused, is it with, or without nptlonly? I have nptlonly and nptl enabled, as nptlonly wouldn't work without the other. I think I also had a problem with nptl by itself. Maybe I'll just put it on my laptop...
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Admiral LSD · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:32 am Post subject:

As I understand it, nptl builds NPTL support into glibc and other packages that support it (which last I checked was limited to Wine and more recently OpenOffice) while nptlonly prevents it from building the linuxthreads fallback version. In other words, you need to compile glibc without nptlonly for this to work. This has the unfortunate side effect of building glibc, one of the most drawn out compiles in the entire system, to effectively be built twice.
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Dr Gonzo · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:56 am Post subject:

Well, I have some other software that's not going to work without the glibc I have now. I don't think I can really get this working correctly unless I reinstall. I think I'm going to have to do that soon... Sheeh.
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servermonk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 182 Location: MI

I just recompiled glibc (2.3.4.20041102) with -nptlonly in my USE flags and I'm still getting this when I run sc3u:

servermonk · Apprentice Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 182 Location: MI

Here is what I had to to in order ot get the update to work:

From loki news group:

ARC2300 · Apprentice Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 265

After reading teh newsgroup for loki's SimCity, I found out that it will work with NPTL compiled into glibc without a problem.

Koxta · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

I've tried everything to run SC3U on my gentoo box, but nothing worked. I still get: