BTW feel free to spend some time helping try figire out why libc_r
is bombing out. It's not an exclusive club :-)


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> Ok so Usability for the average command line user is
> very good. David Xu tracked down a problem that was 
> eluding me with SMP machines. Matt is tracking down
> something that may be giving some instability
> but may also be related to what David found.
> He however gets the award for most confusing 
> debug messages when he managed to get both of his CPUs
> to enter teh debugger at the same time. I thought that was
> impossible, but it definitly happenned. (or it certainly
> looked that way to me :-)
> 
> The big problem at the moment is that something in the 
> source tree as a whole, and probably something that came in with KSE
> is stopping us from successfully compiling a working libc_r.
> (a bit ironic really).
> 
> A libc_r imported from a system that is not yet upgraded to have 
> KSE sources works fine. A libc_r from a KSE machine
> will not work correctly on the KSE machine or the pre-KSE machine.
> 
> The sources are identical, so some thing else in the tree must be
> influencing its correctness.
> 
> the result of this problem is that KDE and Gnome apps that
> are linked with a libc_r created on this system.
> 
> The test directory in the libc sources is giving me some avenues to
> work on but I must say, given allthe things that could have gone wrong
> in the kernel, I'm surprised that the largest problem seems to
> have come from a userland library that I haven't touched :-/
> 
> julian
> 
> 
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
> 


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Reply via email to