From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 6:13:12 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 7C6E437B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:13:10 -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 1617C43E9C for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:13:10 -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 186X7B-0003Vw-0U; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:13:05 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9TECvgu000390; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:13:03 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:12:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: John Polstra Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome on current In-Reply-To: <200210291403.g9TE3DR6049827@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: <20021029141208.C97929-100000@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 Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John Polstra wrote: > In article <20021029135722.L97929-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>, > Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John Polstra wrote: > > > When a symbol is defined in multiple libraries, the first library > > > wins. That's how it has always been in Unix, for archive libraries > > > and for shared libraries. > > > > This is a big problem then since X11.so links to XThrStub.so. This means > > that XThrStub will be ahead of libc_r in many situations. > > I think it would work if the symbol were defined strongly in libc_r. I think so too. I was trying to work out why this wasn't how things were done already. FWIW, linux's libpthread appears to be defining the pthread_* symbols strongly. -- 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