glibc breaks googleearth?

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 12:04 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 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
> 

googleearth now works for me after this update. On intel hardware, it
actually works pretty well too. Can't say the same for nvidia...

Thanks,

tjb
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