Subject: Re: unknown PLT setsid?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/13/1999 16:53:23
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:09:23 -0800 (PST) 
>  Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> 
>  > 
>  > An attempt to build out of the source tree from yesterday and run off it
>  > went well except that:
>  > 
>  > /usr/lib/libc.so.12: Undefined PLT symbol "setsid" (reloc type = 26,
>  > symnum = 1002)
>  > 
>  > happened, which caused most programs to not be able to run. Is it my
>  > toolchain that is out of date? This is a NetBSD-1.4 or so:
>  > 
>  > nobble > gcc -v
>  > Using builtin specs.
>  > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> 
> This is a known bug in some recent changes to the dynamic linker.  I've
> posted several messages about it to a separate developers list (which
> you're on).

Sorry if I was a conehead and didn't read this carefully enough- as you
yourself say on occasion "I get thousands of email messages....." so I
might miss one.

> Still looking for the exact cause of the problem, tho I have the symptom
> precisely pinpointed.

's okay, thanks, just so I know that it wasn't yet another broken matthew
build problem...

-matt