Threading/KSE problem

[Scott Long]

Peter Wemm wrote:

> On Monday 19 September 2005 07:54 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:12, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>>>Hm...
>>>>I just reinstalled Qt using the env LD_LIBMAP thing and now it
>>>>appears to work OK..
>>>
>>>You probably had the old version installed from before the big
>>>library bump last month.
>>
>>Yes.. still it's a PITA to fix and I wonder why it breaks..
>>
>>Anyway, hopefully if someone has the same problem they'll find this
>>work around :)
> 
> 
> Its why we're not supposed to bump library versions unless it is 
> absolutely vitally necessary.
> 
> The problem in this case seems to be that you've got two different 
> instances of libpthread.so.X in your application space at once, and 
> that's always going to screw you.
> 
> I think we haven't heard the last of the pain that this ill-advised bump 
> is going to cause.
> 

Patches for symbol versioning are readily accepted.  I vaguely recall
asking for a solution for this a year ago and getting ignored.

Scott