From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 14: 2:19 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 49EC837B404 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:02:17 -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 2663E43E7B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:02:16 -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 1870uk-00023s-0U; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:02:14 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9UM2Dj0022897; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:02:13 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:02:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Daniel Eischen Cc: Terry Lambert , Subject: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021030220141.E22480-100000@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 Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > > That's bizarre... it's defined in libc_r, so there's no reason for > > > > > the omission in libc. > > > > > > > > I only added stubs that I thought the implementation of libc used > > > > (or would use). > > > > > > Makes sense. > > > > > > Actually, it looks like most of this could be done with macros, > > > including the function definitions, so that we are just dealing > > > with lists; I didn't go that far with it. > > > > > > > > > > > Please find attached a patch that corrects this. > > > > > > > > Patch looks correct. > > > > > > Please commit? 8-). > > > > Well I made a libc with this patch and rebuilt XFree86-4-libraries without > > libXThrStub but I ran into problems compiling the clients. The clients > > *require* someone in the link to supply the pthread_* symbols and libc.so > > only had _pthread_* symbols. I added some more weak references to libc.so > > but that just gets us back to square one. > > I think Terry might be right in suggesting using a macro to automate > all the link and stub generation... > > > The problem is that the sawfish configuration tools are written using some > > extensible lisp/scheme thing called rep. The main rep binary links against > > libc.so so that occurs early in the list. Later on stacks of libraries are > > loaded dynamically, some of which depend on libc_r.so. Unfortunately > > libc_r.so is far too late in the list to get a lookin and it dies in > > exactly the same way as before, for the same reason (calling a > > non-functional stub version of pthread_setspecific(). > > Well, it must have the same problem with Solaris then. Somehow, > you've got to force it to link libc_r before libc... The only way I can see to do that is to link libX11, libXt and friends against libc_r. -- 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