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Date:      Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:18:46 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Threading/KSE problem
Message-ID:  <43305286.4070608@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509201051.40164.peter@wemm.org>
References:  <200509201118.08737.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>	<20050920024215.GA22503@xor.obsecurity.org>	<200509201224.21189.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200509201051.40164.peter@wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm wrote:

> On Monday 19 September 2005 07:54 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:12, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>>>Hm...
>>>>I just reinstalled Qt using the env LD_LIBMAP thing and now it
>>>>appears to work OK..
>>>
>>>You probably had the old version installed from before the big
>>>library bump last month.
>>
>>Yes.. still it's a PITA to fix and I wonder why it breaks..
>>
>>Anyway, hopefully if someone has the same problem they'll find this
>>work around :)
> 
> 
> Its why we're not supposed to bump library versions unless it is 
> absolutely vitally necessary.
> 
> The problem in this case seems to be that you've got two different 
> instances of libpthread.so.X in your application space at once, and 
> that's always going to screw you.
> 
> I think we haven't heard the last of the pain that this ill-advised bump 
> is going to cause.
> 

Patches for symbol versioning are readily accepted.  I vaguely recall
asking for a solution for this a year ago and getting ignored.

Scott



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