From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 08:23:36 2003 Return-Path: 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 710D337B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 08:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from volatile.chemikals.org (cae57-160-052.sc.rr.com [66.57.160.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4625843F75 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 08:23:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from localhost (morganw@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h4TFNXqk070287; Thu, 29 May 2003 11:23:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:23:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Wesley Morgan To: Lars Eggert In-Reply-To: <3ED59893.5010301@isi.edu> Message-ID: <20030529112140.J70180@volatile.chemikals.org> References: <20030526225111.HVVN25800.out006.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net> <3ED59893.5010301@isi.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Libthr stable enough for testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:23:36 -0000 On Wed, 28 May 2003, Lars Eggert wrote: > The machine (SMP) would sometimes freeze solid (no panic). I symlinked > libc_r back to the original library, and from then on, starting > gnomepanel and some other gnome pieces would fail due to errors about > libthr. I couldn't find them in any log file right now, but I think I > remember one was about getpwuid_r not being found. (The ports that > caused problems were gnome 2.3 beta ports from the marcuscom CVS tree.) > > From what I understand, libthr should be a drop-in replacement for > libc_r, so I was surprised to see this, but maybe I misunderstood? It's sort of a one-way street with libthr. It will drop in to replace libc_r, but it is more complete. When you built gnome it detected reentrant functions in libthr that are not present in libc_R, so you cannot go backwards (ie, libc_r is NOT a drop-in replacement for libthr). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!