Re: pthread in glibc2.2.2

[Justin Guyett]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Bratislav ILICH wrote:

> > That's not true. The problem is that you are using outdated binutils
> > or something like that which causes libpthread to not be built with
> > DF_1_INITFIRST set.
> I followed discussion Dan and Ulrich had on this subject and I must add that
> they are both, well, correct.
> Quite a few people are having problems with this so I feel it needs clearing
> out.
> If you do run ‘configure --enable-kernel=2.4.x --enable-add-ons’ on i686
> (and subsequently enabling LDT segment register based code) building glibc
> 2.2.2 (and 2.2.3pre1 also) linuxthreads will always fail if you are using
> latest RELEASED (available at ftp.gnu.org) version 2.10.1 of binutils
> because it lacks needed features, so stop trying. You MUST use PATCHED
> version or recent SNAPSHOT (I presume maintainers are using snapshots, which
> is why checking gas version is commented out in configure.in). Recent
> snapshots will also cure few other obscure bugs for you.

really?  I just built 2.11.90.0.4 in a jail and recompiled glibc
2.2.3pre3, broke every threaded program on install (failed install due to
make segfaulting)  I'm pretty sure the old version (pre1) was compiled
with binutils 2.10.1, too, and it works fine.


justin