Pan crashing in libgnuregex after -pthread switchover

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Sat Mar 20 09:18:22 PST 2004


On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:06:08PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:58:07PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > Idea that library must match headers used is pretty natural.
> 
> Just yet one note: the ports which expects _binary_ compatibility between
> our headers and some 3rd party library (as GNU one) are broken initially.  
> Even it was so at some moment, later each library can evolve by its own
> path, so nothing guaranteed here. 

The exact example of this situation is the whole case we discuss. I not
remove NO_POSIX_COMPAT ifndef from GNU sources - they did it by themself. 
Should we revert their decision and make it looks like old one? Should we 
do it in all future cases? I think - not.

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