glibc breaks googleearth?

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 16:04:24 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:49:00AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Okay I've installed the latest glibc from F7 updates (in a separate
> directory on my F8 box, and ran
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/home/airlied/test/lib /home/airlied/test/lib//ld-2.6.so ./googleearth-bin
> 
> and it appears to start and work.. so what changed in glibc that annoys
> it?

Bug in both googleearth (some libraries incorrectly linked, even when they
use libpthread symbols not linked against -lpthread, which means many
unversioned symbols) and glibc i?86 sem_post glibc 2.0 compatibility code.
The latter is fixed in CVS and will be in tonight's glibc build.

	Jakub




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