From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 12:21:58 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 ED39937B415 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CE343E9C for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0057.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.57] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 186crp-0004xn-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:21:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBEED85.9D5C711A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:20:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Rabson Cc: John Polstra , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome on current References: <20021029135722.L97929-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 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 Doug Rabson 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. WHY? Why is it linked this way, other than to replace functions that would ordinarily be in the threads library? It seems to me that it's doing what it's being told to do, and the fault is in the telling. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message