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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:23:48 +0600
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current
Message-ID:  <20021031152348.A73783@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20021031083910.GA21482@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:39:10AM -0800
References:  <20021030234026.M22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <3DC07094.F67F5C66@mindspring.com> <20021030180238.A7388@FreeBSD.org> <20021031083910.GA21482@dragon.nuxi.com>

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hi, there!

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:39:10AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:

> > Considering that I built the same applications and ran the same applications
> > fine a while ago, and we've had a binutils upgrade, and things don't break
> > on other systems, I'm inclined to assume there are linker bugs afoot, and
> > all the other speculative stuff seems to be based on misunderstandings or
> > bad information.
> 
> Huh?  Your statement is rather speculative stuff.  Other systems (say
> Linux) are using the same linker we are.  Please speculate less.  Please
> grab an older ld and try to prove your speculation.

I think the problem is in our dynamic linker or in the way we link
dynamic libraries or in the way we compile and link X11 libraries.
Linux also has pthreads symbols weakly defined
(some of them are defined in glibc, some of them in libpthread)
and does not have such problems.

/fjoe


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