[ale] RedHat 9, threading

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

It is my understand that RedHat 9 supports  NTPL.  Java is crashing for 
me on this system with some regularlity, and as NTPL support is new in 
both of these pieces of software, I'd like to find a way to disable 
RedHat's support for it, as a test.

Anybody know how? (Basic kernel builds are not a problem for me, but 
rebuilding RedHat's kernel is a new thing for me.  I have the kernel 
source package, but don't know how to build it "RedHat style", so 
details are appreciated).