From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 13:23: 5 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 73E1837B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:23:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBB143E4A for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from mailgate.nlsystems.com ([62.49.251.130] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-39.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 186dpG-00025M-0U; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:23:02 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9TLN2gu043300; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:23:02 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:23:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome on current In-Reply-To: <3DBEF5F3.D445C65A@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20021029212225.C43274-100000@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, Terry Lambert wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > The point is that with the current setup of the XFree86-4-libraries port, > > you don't have any choice, since libX11 links to libXThrStub. This is the > > key problem, IMHO. I have a machine running RedHat 8.0 and they don't have > > any such thing. On RedHat, libXThrStub doesn't even exist. > > So what breaks, when you dike it out? I doubt if anything would break. Our libc already defines a perfectly reasonable set of pthread stubs. > > > All you have to do is create a situation where a shared object that links > > to libc_r is loaded after libX11 and the thing breaks into little pieces. > > So let's dike out libXThrStub.so, and be done with it. Probably. -- 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