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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:20:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH: libc]Re: gnome on current
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10210302207340.23231-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021030220614.R22480-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> >
> > You need to link the library against libc_r.so instead of libXThrStub.so.
> 
> Probably not. Doing that breaks the existing 'feature' of being able to
> use X11 in entirely non-threaded programs. I'm not sure whether that is
> acceptable. It also stops programs from being able to select between
> several thread implementations, of which -current has two.
> 
> I think the only sensible solution to this problem is for libraries which
> provide an actual pthreads implementation (rather than a set of stubs) to
> define strong symbols. Wierd debugging wrappers can still be achieved via
> some dlopen/dlsym hackery.

I don't really like this.  It should be possible to have the same
type of implementation as Solaris.  How does X11 work for them?

-- 
Dan Eischen


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