On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:37:48AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am starring at bug #758572. Basically OP reports that `cmake` is
> underlinked, which is a serious issue as per policy. However when
> reading the details it appears that this is a c++ weak symbol (AFAIK
> no weak default definition is available). This weak symbol is
> generated by default by gcc when using part of the STL (See
> #758572#13).
> 
> So I would be tempted to simply close the bug as invalid, since weak
> symbol without default definition should not be an issue. However OP
> reports that it makes `cmake` fails using a custom `libcurl`.
> 
> Could someone please remind me in which case weak symbols (no weak
> default definition) can trigger an undefined behavior at runtime ?

I think UB is only triggered if something attempts to use the symbol. Is cmake 
pulling in
another library that uses libpthread but doesn't link it in?

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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