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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:23:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnome on current
Message-ID:  <20021029212225.C43274-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DBEF5F3.D445C65A@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote:
> > The point is that with the current setup of the XFree86-4-libraries port,
> > you don't have any choice, since libX11 links to libXThrStub. This is the
> > key problem, IMHO. I have a machine running RedHat 8.0 and they don't have
> > any such thing. On RedHat, libXThrStub doesn't even exist.
>
> So what breaks, when you dike it out?

I doubt if anything would break. Our libc already defines a perfectly
reasonable set of pthread stubs.

>
> > All you have to do is create a situation where a shared object that links
> > to libc_r is loaded after libX11 and the thing breaks into little pieces.
>
> So let's dike out libXThrStub.so, and be done with it.

Probably.

-- 
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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