Javier Villavicencio wrote: > Timothy Redaelli wrote: >> Javier Villavicencio wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> A bit of background first: >>> Currently firefox-2* and seamonkey-1.1.1 doesn't build on >>> Gentoo/FreeBSD. The main reason is that upstream (I think) has 'fixed' >>> how the pthread lib has to be linked, and now it needs -lc to link >>> successfully. This little issue is easily solvable the same way as it's >>> done by the FreeBSD ports patches [1]. >>> >>> The next issue (having the above one fixed) is that the resulting binary >>> (firefox or seamonkey's -bin) is linked against libc_r.so.6 *and* >>> libpthread.so.2 (which are two of the thread implementations available >>> in FreeBSD). >> >> No, actual firefox-bin is only linked with libpthread.so.2 (directly >> with -lpthread) >> # wget >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/firefox.tbz >> >> # mkdir firefox ; tar xjf firefox.tbz -C firefox >> # scanelf -nR . | grep c_r >> > Nice to know, by the way i was talking about g/fbsd there not vanilla > freebsd. (I don't have an install yet, i was using a friend's server to > try some gcc tests). > > BUT!!, why 'our' mozilla tries to link against libc_r.so.6 then? afaics > we do not touch the 'selection' of the threading library, and i haven't > seen anything besides the GECKO_PTHREADS_LIBS, and even if I pass that > variable (with -lpthread) to make our build still uses libc_r.so.6. > And why the only way to make it work is by remapping libpthread.so.2 to > libc_r.so.6, or (as I have experimented) by removing libpthread.so.2 > from the linkage? Or is this also being done in some wrapper on vanilla > fbsd? > > Besides this, what's your suggestion? make all mozilla ebuilds patch > accordingly to avoid libc_r and use libpthread alone?
Yeah, we should do such as FreeBSD
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@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|-lc_r|${PTHREAD_LIBS}|g ; \
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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/www/mozilla/Makefile.common
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Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/
FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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