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[PATCH] libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
- From: "Gabor Z. Papp" <gzp at papp dot hu>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:01:39 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH] libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
- References: <x6sk9fwwa7@gzp> <201002051600.35574.vapier@gentoo.org><x6hbps3wf6@gzp> <201002080444.01263.vapier@gentoo.org>
* Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:
| > | > Should not this noted somewhere in the README
| > | > (glibc/pthread requires libgcc_s at runtime)?
| > | probably. feel free to submit a patch.
| this should be sent to the libc-alpha list with a GNU changelog entry (not to
| the file but posted inline in the e-mail).
2010-02-08 Gabor Z. Papp <gzp@papp.hu>
* README: Document the libgcc_s.so.1 runtime requirement.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 322b4da..cdfbd05 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ the default configuration. Most of the C library will continue to work
on older Linux kernels and many programs will not require a 2.6 kernel
to run correctly. However, pthreads and related functionality will not
work at all on old kernels and we do not recommend using glibc 2.4 with
-any Linux kernel prior to 2.6.
+any Linux kernel prior to 2.6. Also note, that the shared version of
+the libgcc_s library must be installed for the pthread library to work
+correctly.
All Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.16 are known to have some bugs that
may cause some of the tests related to pthreads in "make check" to fail.