From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 00:23:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB6C16A42D for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:23:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299ED43D49 for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:23:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.17.229]) ([10.251.17.229]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 22 Dec 2005 16:23:04 -0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true Message-ID: <43AB4368.20203@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:23:04 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Doerfler References: <3.0.5.32.20051222180129.0222e8c0@mailer> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20051222180129.0222e8c0@mailer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pthread binary compatibility with FreeBSD 4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:23:08 -0000 Steven Doerfler wrote: >I need to build a binary under FreeBSD 5.4 that will run under FreeBSD 4.11 >without recompiling. Dynamically linked binaries are out since FreeBSD >4.11 lacks the appropriate libraries, but a statically linked binary from >FreeBSD 5.4 seems to work fine under 4.11, as long as it doesn't link with >a threading library. Linking with -lpthread or -pthread produces an error >immediately at startup: > > make a 4.11 based jail or chroot and compile there using 4.11 tools >Fatal error 'Can't allocate initial kse.' at line 267 in file >/usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_init.c (errno = 45) >Segmentation fault (core dumped) > >I'm guessing this is because FreeBSD 4.11 lacks KSE's, and support for such >older kernels has been removed from pthread? > >Is there any workaround for this? Maybe a threading library that doesn't >depend on KSE's and works under 4.11 too? (I tried libc_r and libthr >briefly but without success.) Or a way to build a version of pthread that >doesn't use KSE's? Or is there a way to build with FreeBSD 4.11 libraries >under FreeBSD 5.4? > >Thanks for any suggestions. > >Steven Doerfler > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-threads@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-threads >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-threads-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >