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Re: openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>
- Cc: Robert Love <rml at tech9 dot net>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:55:34 -0500
- Subject: Re: openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs
- References: <200211040434.XAA33448@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <200211042031.PAA35204@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:31:53PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Robert,
> Do you happen to have Blackdown JDK installed on your machine.
> I just checked with Kevin Hendricks about this and he believes
> we may be seeing a jdk failure due to __libc_wait being private
> to glibc now in 2.3.x. This symbol is needed by JDK 1.3.1 to
> properly catch all of the sigchild signals for its fork/exec code.
> Kevin says if they call the regular wait in the signal handler, it
> is wrappered by the pthread library and becomes a pthread
> cancellation point which causes us to drop sigchild on occaission.
> This symbol was being used to work around non-posix pthread signal
> handling in Linux.
Our openoffice doesn't use Sun/IBM/Blackdown JDK in any way, just
gcj a little to cheat during building, then no Java at all.
Jakub