On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> I'm sure it can be error prone, but that isn't the problem here at all.
> My n32 glibc 2.3.5 compiled and seems to work just fine, and I was
> able to compile an entire userland around it that has no (other)
> problems so far as I can tell. By this, I mean "emerge system" in
> Gentoo terms, which is a pretty good test of whether the toolchain works
> or not. Furthermore, other programs that are linked against libpthread
> run without causing a segfault and oops. I'm talking about glib, as in
> the glib that used to be part of GTK+ before it was split out some time
> ago.
>
> The segfault with kernel oops that I can't get around occurs while
> glib's configure script is checking for libpthread. Specifically, it
> links http://beerandrocks.net:8080/~spbecker/oops/conftest.c against
> libpthread and then runs it.
And libpthread is part of glibc, not glib. So if an autoconf test (which
I'm assuming is AC_CHECK_LIB() rather than a hand-crafted hack) breaks on
running a program linked against libpthread, then it's not a problem with
glib, but probably with either glibc or the toolchain used.
> I've somewhat convinced myself this is either a kernel and/or a header
> problem. It seems I'm only able to reproduce this problem when trying
> to compile and run that code while running 2.6.12 from cvs. As I
> previously mentioned, I tested the offending code on a kernel I compiled
> from a 2.6.10 snapshot some time ago, and it ran with no segfault or oops.
If you get an Oops when running software as non-root, then it's a kernel
bug, no matter what.
Maciej
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