Re: HEADS UP: you may need to rebuild threaded pkgsrc programs

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:28:55 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> I just hit my head against the wall trying to make perl configure work
> on a random machine I just had updated to realy latest -current untill
> I noticed what's going on - so to save you the time and pain, I
> thought I better give you all a warning:
> 
> Short story: if you have installed new programs using pkgsrc that use
> libpthread after the threading model in -current had been changed to
> 1:1, you better delete and reinstall them all after upgrading to a
> very recent current.
> 
> Background: when switching away from SA threads, the userland ABI was
> accidently changed slightly by changing the size of pthread_mutex_t.
> Now libg++ uses mutexes, so basically every c++ program started being
> incompatible. Now that we are about to merge SA support back into
> -current, we found this ABI problem, and to easy transitions from 4.0
> to 5.0 Matt Thomas recently fixed it.
> 
> However, for everyone using -current in the time in-between, this
> means another incompatible ABI change, hence the above
> recommendation: recompile everything using threads.
> 
What is "the time in-between"?  What are suspect versions of -current?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb