nss_ldap broken
Sean McNeil
sean at mcneil.com
Wed Mar 31 14:48:57 PST 2004
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:48, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> >
> > > Sean, could you report how this patch works for you? Hmm, actually, it
> > > looks almost identical to what you posted :-) Is there a reason that
> > > you stored the value of `__isthreaded' in a local variable? Did that
> > > make a difference for your case?
> >
> > I'm unsure how nss_ldap was built to depend on libpthread (or
> > any threads library). I built it from ports and 'ldd' didn't
> > report any dependency on a threads library.
>
> I rebuilt it and now it does depend on libpthread. I
> think it is because I had openldap-client-2.1.26 which
> didn't have a dependency on libpthread, but upgrading
> to openldap-client-2.1.28 brought in the dependency.
>
> Too bad these shared libraries can't be made to use
> the libgcc trick, so they can still be thread-safe
> but not depend on a threads library. That would
> also make it easier to use different thread libraries
> for different applications relying on common shared
> libraries.
I'm unclear as to why any library that is thread-safe would need to be
linked with libpthread.so. Since libc already has the hooks in there, I
don't see why you need to link with it unless you are actually
using/relying on threads. IMHO, we should just not link libpthread.so
into these shared libraries.
Sean
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