Re: HEADS UP: libkse -> libpthread switch

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:33:12 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, David Schultz wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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.

Could mergemaster be coerced into installing a sane libmap.conf until
things settle?

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
Received on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 10:34:38 UTC

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