Re: HEADS UP: libkse -> libpthread switch

From: David Schultz <das_at_FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:24:22 -0800
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004, Scott Long wrote:
> Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 07:34:02AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> >
> >>     Until
> >>	the ports system is updated to handle this change, it is
> >>	recommended that folks install an /etc/libmap.conf(5) that
> >>	maps libc_r to libpthread.  
> >
> >
> >Why, exactly? (curious)
> >
> >IMHO it is unacceptable to require /etc/libmap.conf to exist.  I know
> >this is temporary, but I hope it is *really* temporary.
> >
> >Cheers,
> 
> We certainly are not going to ship 5.3 like this.  However, given that
> HEAD is a development branch and that change does not happen
> instantly, I think that this fine for now.

Actually, installing a libmap.conf mapping libc_r to libpthread by
default in 5.3 might be *less* painful than the alternative.
Otherwise, an application compiled after the change that links
against a multithreaded library compiled before the change might
depend on both libc_r.so and libpthread.so, which would inevitably
cause things to go wrong at runtime.  Without a libmap.conf, it
would seem that users would be forced to upgrade all of their
applications and libraries that depend on libc_r simultaneously.


P.S. In grepping through the next few days of -CURRENT, which I
     haven't read yet, it seems that someone has already been
     bitten by this problem.  See Subject: wxgtk build error
     libpthred related
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 22:24:30 UTC

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