On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:45:43 -0800
Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> * De: David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-31 ]
>       [ Subjecte: Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current ]
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:02:38PM -0800, Juli Mallett wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Huh?  Your statement is rather speculative stuff.  Other systems
> > (say Linux) are using the same linker we are.  Please speculate
> > less.  Please grab an older ld and try to prove your speculation.
> 
> It's deductive.  Other systems are using similar library setups, in
> terms of weak vs. strong systems, 

Wrong. Solaris and Linux differ from FreeBSD each in its own way.

Linux    provides strong pthread definitions in libpthread
Solaris  provides weak pthread and _pthread definitions in Libc
         with libpthread providing strong _pthread and weak pthread

We are the weird one it seems. 

-- 
Alexander Kabaev


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