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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:24:29 -0600
From:      "Jim King" <jim@jimking.net>
To:        "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Threaded C++ Question
Message-ID:  <015801c075cb$91f86580$524c8486@jking>
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010103161116.10340A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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"Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jim King wrote:
> > "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote:
> > > > Mozilla M18 binary from mozilla.org runs fine.  Cool!
> > >
> > > That's because they changed the mozilla port to work around the
> > > problem with libgcc (I believe with an explicit link -lgcc_r).
> > > This should be reverted once the correct fix is committed to
> > > libgcc and friends.
> >
> > But I didn't build Mozilla from the port, I downloaded the binary from
> > mozilla.org.  Something in -stable must have changed since the last time
I
> > tried to run the binary from mozilla.org.
>
> Well, here's the log from the port:
>
>   revision 1.52
>   date: 2000/12/21 19:40:39;  author: reg;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
>   Explictly link against libgcc_r, to work around bugs in 4.2-RELEASE
>   onwards and -CURRENT.  I'm still not sure why the bug was exposed only
>   recently, but it is due to libstdc++ being linked without the -nostdlib
>   option (causing it to be statically linked against libgcc even for the
>   threaded case).
>
> They could have used the same fix at mozilla.org....

The binary was built back in October.  This is the same binary that failed
on 4.2-RELEASE and -stable's as of a couple weeks ago.

Jim




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