Re: Sarge: rtld-patch for glibc / weird behaviour of deb-package
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:19:35PM +0200, Peter Pfannenschmid wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have two questions which I would like to ask the maintainers of the debian
> glibc package (version 2.3.2.ds1-21).
>
> 1) We (and many other people) were running multiple times into a problem
> with some assertion in rtld.c. The error message is roughly the following
> one:
>
> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1175: dl_main: Assertion
> `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_prev->l_next == _rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_next'
> failed!
>
> I have googled, and this problems seems to be widely spread, but I have only
> seen one reasonable solution: A patch by Daniel Jacobowitz from MontaVista
> software. His explanations of what his patch does are detailed and
> well-founded. So why is this patch not included in the debian glibc package
> (speaking of both the source and binary one)? There are many people really
> desparate about it - for example if they want to run the well-known "David
> V8" messaging server on debian...
Grr! You are the N'th person to suggest this without reading the bug
logs thoroughly. The patch was rejected upstream. Therefore it is not
appropriate to include it in the Debian package. The problem does not
exist upstream any more but no one has isolated the responsible fix.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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