From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 6: 4: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F93637B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD76643E7B for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:04:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9TE3Ex24595; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:03:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9TE3DR6049827; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:03:13 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200210291403.g9TE3DR6049827@vashon.polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com Subject: Re: gnome on current In-Reply-To: <20021029135722.L97929-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> References: <20021029135722.L97929-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20021029135722.L97929-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, John Polstra wrote: > > When a symbol is defined in multiple libraries, the first library > > wins. That's how it has always been in Unix, for archive libraries > > and for shared libraries. > > This is a big problem then since X11.so links to XThrStub.so. This means > that XThrStub will be ahead of libc_r in many situations. I think it would work if the symbol were defined strongly in libc_r. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message