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Hi, |
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I volunteered to help Diego summarize a news item on "crossdev, glib and |
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binary compatibility", see http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/05/15/ |
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Here's the result; as I am neither a specialist in the topic nor know much |
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about news items, please be lenient :) |
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If you are cross-compiling to a 32-bit architecture such as ARM, or if |
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you are using a 32-bit architecture and have sys-devel/crossdev installed, |
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please be warned that - unless you follow the advice below - your system |
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may become seriously broken. |
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We have recently fixed bug 367351 in sys-devel/crossdev, where the size of |
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the pthread_mutex_t type was hardwired incorrectly into configure scripts. |
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Unfortunately, if the size was incorrect before, switching to the correct |
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value changes the ABI of libgthread. All binaries linked against the previous |
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glib may thus simply crash. |
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You will have to ensure the ABI stability before upgrading crossdev. |
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Information on how to fix this is available at the following URL: |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/05/15/ |
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Opinions? |
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Cheers, |
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Andreas |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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