* De: Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-30 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current ]
> > > Maybe the workaround for now is to make the symbols in libXThrStub.so
> > > weak?
> >
> > They *are* weak Terry. The problem is that every bloody definition is weak
> > so the linker has no way of picking the one definition which will actually
> > work. The real problem is that the actual working threads library doesn't
> > provide strong symbols to allow it to override all the other stubs.
>
> First strong/last weak should win. You are saying "last weak" is not
> winning. That's a linker bug.
Considering that I built the same applications and ran the same applications
fine a while ago, and we've had a binutils upgrade, and things don't break
on other systems, I'm inclined to assume there are linker bugs afoot, and
all the other speculative stuff seems to be based on misunderstandings or
bad information.
juli.
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