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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
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Subject: Re: Libthr stable enough for testing
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On 29-May-2003 Michael Edenfield wrote:
> * James Tanis <jtanis@mindspring.com> [030529 17:18]:
> 
>> How does one go about using libthr? Is all that is
>> involved is symlinking libc_r to libthr?
> 
> That's the easiest way.  You can also explicitly link applications 
> with -lthr instead of -lc_r.  And since libthr and libc_r are both 6 
> characters long, you could also use ed/sed/etc. to s/libc_r/libthr/ in 
> the executable itself.  
> 
> Also, there is a patch (I think it's still a patch) floating around 
> the mailing list archives to use an external config file so you can 
> replace the threading library at run-time per-executable.

It has been committed.  Build rtld with WITH_LIBMAP defined and then
setup a libmap.conf.

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