From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 3:26:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F58537B401; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 03:26:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133ED43E6E; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 03:26:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from mailgate.nlsystems.com ([62.49.251.130] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 187DTC-0002dz-0U; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:26:38 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9VBQbrF070302; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:26:37 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:26:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Max Khon Cc: current@freebsd.org, Juli Mallett Subject: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current In-Reply-To: <20021031152348.A73783@iclub.nsu.ru> Message-ID: <20021031112514.L69202-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Max Khon wrote: > 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. I think you are mistaken. On my RedHat 8.0 system, there are weak pthread_* symbols in libc.so and strong ones in libpthread.so. Linux doesn't use libXThrStub.so, presumably because libc.so's pthread_* symbols are suitable stubs. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message