Bug#682441: ocaml: pthread_atfork symbol not linked correctly
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:34:02PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> On 22/07/2012 21:22, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs/dllthreads.so is not correctly linked with
> > libpthread, so pthread_atfork() which should be linked statically is
> > undefined and resolved at link time for architectures having a
> > GLIBC_2.2.5 compatibility version of this symbol. For recent
> > architectures like ppc64 this is not the case, so packages like
> > lablgtk2 fails to build [1].
> >
> > A patch is available upstream [2]. Would it be possible to apply
> > it in the next upload? Thanks in advance.
>
> Is this needed in wheezy? The version in experimental (4.00.0~rc1-1)
> should already have this patch applied, so the fix should naturally end
> up in unstable eventually (after the release).
>
So far the bug has been seen only on ppc64, which is not even in the
official archive. Therefore the patch can wait for after the release,
unless you notice some strange unresolved issues with threads and forks
which might be due to that.
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