[PATCH] libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work

["Gabor Z. Papp" <gzp at papp dot hu>]

* Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:

| > | > Should not this noted somewhere in the README
| > | > (glibc/pthread requires libgcc_s at runtime)?
| > | probably.  feel free to submit a patch.

| this should be sent to the libc-alpha list with a GNU changelog entry (not to 
| the file but posted inline in the e-mail).

2010-02-08  Gabor Z. Papp  <gzp@papp.hu>

        * README: Document the libgcc_s.so.1 runtime requirement.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 322b4da..cdfbd05 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ the default configuration.  Most of the C library will continue to work
 on older Linux kernels and many programs will not require a 2.6 kernel
 to run correctly.  However, pthreads and related functionality will not
 work at all on old kernels and we do not recommend using glibc 2.4 with
-any Linux kernel prior to 2.6.
+any Linux kernel prior to 2.6. Also note, that the shared version of
+the libgcc_s library must be installed for the pthread library to work
+correctly.
 
 All Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.16 are known to have some bugs that
 may cause some of the tests related to pthreads in "make check" to fail.