tls glibc broken on ppc

Steve Munroe sjmunroe@us.ibm.com
Tue Dec 14 20:32:00 GMT 2004


libc-alpha-owner@sources.redhat.com wrote on 12/14/2004 02:13:45 PM:

> I'm using cvs head (more or less) on (among others) ppc. Allmost all 
apps 
> segfault immediately when using /lib/tls/libc (though some don't; eg. 
rpm). 
> rm -rf /lib/tls and everything works fine. Fedora's glibc also works 
fine 
> (thanks to Jeff Johnson for suggesting I should check it), and I've 
managed 
> to pinpoint why. Here's Jakub Jelinek's patch: 
> 
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/glibc-tls_fix.patch?rev=1.3
> It's more than a year old (which btw makes me wonder why fedora's glibc 
> differs that much from cvs head).
> 

Which gcc/binutils? for glibc cvs head you will need uptodate toolchain.

Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center



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