I just spent a few hours trying to get gnome working on one of my systems,
since kde still appears to be completely hosed. Unfortunately, not much of
it worked reliably. In particular, all the sawfish preferences applets
crash instantly.
On investigating one of the crashes more carefully, I discovered that all
calls to pthread_*() were being resolved to stubs in libXThrStub.so in
spite of the fact that libc_r was also loaded. This caused problems for
e.g. flockfile which failed to initialise its mutex (uthread_mutex.c's
init_static calls pthread_mutex_init instead of _pthread_mutex_init and
ends up in libXThrStub). After working around that, I had more fun where
one of the gnome libs tried to call pthread_getspecific().
Why isn't the linker resolving these symbols against the ones in libc_r?
For some reason, libc_r defines them weakly so they get resolved by the
first weak definition in the list of libs, which in this case is
libXThrStub :-(
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