Subject: Re: X failure after userland upgrade
To: netbsd-macppc macppc <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/16/2007 03:32:09
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Hello,

On Oct 14, 2007, at 16:49, Michael wrote:

> after upgrading my userland from several weeks old to sources from  
> yesterday I get relocation errors from XFree86's ELF loader.
> R_PPC_REL24 PLT offset too large 10fbac10.
> Yup, that's more than 24bit. Any idea what could cause that and how  
> to fix it? Apparently AMD64 needed a fix there after jemalloc was  
> imported, could this be more fallout?

Turns out it is jemalloc fallout - building a libc with  
USE_JEMALLOC=no makes X work again.
Now what side effects of the old malloc() is X relying on?

have fun
Michael
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