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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:59:11 -0400
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
Cc:        vova@fbsd.ru, current@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [fwd] cvs commit: src/lib/libthr/thread thr_mutex.c thr_umtx.c thr_umtx.h src/sys/kern kern_umtx.c src/sys/sys umtx.h
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On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 08:45 -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:10:39 -0400
> Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
> >=20
> > Firefox depends upon a lot of external things, including glib, nss,
> > and nspr (among others, probably) which would propagate thread-lib
> > bugs even after the main app has been recompiled. I suggest running
> > ldd on /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin (and other shared objects
> > in that dir) to find out what all you might need to rebuild. At the
> > very least, I'd expect a rebuild of nspr and nss to be mandatory. I
> > *think* firefox uses nspr's thread implementation, and not the one
> > from gthread (glib).
>=20
> Recompiling is NOT the cure and people should not focus on it.
>=20
> If one needs to recompile anything after a commit, then commit
> breaks ABI which usually should be accompanied with a very good
> explanation of why it was necessary. David's commit does not appear to
> fall into that category and his changes are ABI compatible as far as
> userland is concerned.
>=20
>=20

Well, I'll be building/installing world from last night's cvsup today on
my laptop, so I'll let you know how it works for me.

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Coleman Kane

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