From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 7:10:44 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 695DD37B406; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:10:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx10.mail.ru (mx10.mail.ru [194.67.57.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E155443E7B; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:10:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kan@mail.ru) Received: from drweb by mx10.mail.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim MX.A) id 187Gxw-000OqK-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:10:36 +0300 Received: from [141.154.54.36] (helo=kan.dnsalias.net) by mx10.mail.ru with esmtp (Exim SMTP.A) id 187Gxv-000OmO-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:10:36 +0300 Received: from kan.dnsalias.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by kan.dnsalias.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9VFAWR2061807; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:10:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kan@kan.dnsalias.net) Received: (from kan@localhost) by kan.dnsalias.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9VFARsG061806; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:10:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:10:26 -0500 From: Alexander Kabaev To: Juli Mallett Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current Message-Id: <20021031101026.00a06d97.kabaev@bellatlantic.net> In-Reply-To: <20021031054542.A51595@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021030234026.M22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> <3DC07094.F67F5C66@mindspring.com> <20021030180238.A7388@FreeBSD.org> <20021031083910.GA21482@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021031054542.A51595@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: ak03@gte.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws26 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:45:43 -0800 Juli Mallett wrote: > * De: David O'Brien [ Data: 2002-10-31 ] > [ Subjecte: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current ] > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:02:38PM -0800, Juli Mallett 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. > > It's deductive. Other systems are using similar library setups, in > terms of weak vs. strong systems, Wrong. Solaris and Linux differ from FreeBSD each in its own way. Linux provides strong pthread definitions in libpthread Solaris provides weak pthread and _pthread definitions in Libc with libpthread providing strong _pthread and weak pthread We are the weird one it seems. -- Alexander Kabaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message