compat-6x does not work when kernel has NO_KSE

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 12 12:40:19 PDT 2007


Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:21:59AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>> On Sep 12, 2007, at 5:37 AM, Jiawei Ye wrote:
>>> On 9/12/07, Jiawei Ye <leafy7382 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> [/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/jre/bin/java]
>>>> libpthread.so.2 libthr.so
>>> Changing this to libthr.so.2 fixes the problem. Sorry about the noise.
>> curious... on 6.1/6.2 I *must* use libpthread as the threading library for 
>> diablo jdk. it throws hotspot compiler errors at random if I map it to libthr.
> 
> I second Vivek here - there are some weird problems with compiler on
> FreeBSD 6.x amd64 if you use libthr as a threading library. It's
> difficult to say - why, but the effect was noted both by me and Vivek.
> 
> So, beware, there are dragons there.

But do they apply to a 6.x binary running on 7.0?  i.e. are you 
describing a 6.x kernel bug or a 6.x libthr bug?

Kris



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