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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:59:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libpthread.so.2 compatibility
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0606041156020.8602@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060604153210.GA60476@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
References:  <20060604075414.GA47483@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <20060604082335.GB76919@over-yonder.net> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0606041043350.8207@sea.ntplx.net> <20060604153210.GA60476@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>

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On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, John Hay wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:46:00AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:54:14AM +0200 I heard the voice of
>>> John Hay, and lo! it spake thus:
>>>>
>>>> They all seem to die in pthread_setcancelstate according to gdb:
>>>
>>> FWIW, I just upgraded a system from an early January -CURRENT, and I'm
>>> getting the same thing.  I've already rebuilt most things, which
>>> probably means there'll be a "fix" for this that requires rebuilding
>>> them again   :p
>>
>> There have been no ABI changes in libpthread, so it must be coming
>> from somewhere else.  I know that libc had some ABI changes but
>> it's version was bumped to account for that.
>>
>> libpthread did move from /usr/lib to /lib, but I don't know how
>> that would bite you unless you deleted it from /usr/lib in the
>> upgrade process.
>
> Ok, maybe it isn't some ABI change inside libpthread. Can it maybe be
> that we have two "versions" of libpthread.so.2 now, one that was
> compiled and like to be linked to libc.so.6 and one that like to be
> linked to libc.so.7? So if you now try to run an older threaded app
> (one that was compiled with libc.so.6 and libpthread.so.2, like what
> would happen in FreeBSD-6) on -current, it would try to use the new
> libpthread.so.2 that was build against libc.so.7, but try to link it
> with libc.so.6 and then crash and burn? Maybe when libc gets bumped
> all other libs have to be bumped too?

All others have to be bumped anyway (in -current) but I don't know
if that is what is causing the problem.  ldd or readelf -d are your
friends...  If there are multiple dependencies on libpthread, then
that is probably causing the problem.

-- 
DE



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