Wierd compile error with libpthread.a

[Rupert Brooks <rbrooks@cyberus.ca>]

Hi,

Please note to CC replies to brooks@nrcan.gc.ca and kirstin@i.am.  I
don't follow this list all that regularly - thanks

I am having problems compiling a c program under Debian-Potato.  I have
traced it this far:  If I compile any C program, and link in the library
/usr/lib/libpthread.a then an executable will be produced, but when
executed will simply lock up.

I have tried doing this with just the helloworld type Cprogram and it
still locks up.  If I don't link that archive, then it works fine.

CTRL-C will interrupt it.  I have tried looking at it with GDB, but I
couldn't figure out what it is doing.  That is not surprising as I am
not very good with gdb.

I have upgraded my libc6, and libc6-dev, and gconv-modules to the latest
versions.

Thanks a million in advance

Rupert Brooks

More details:
The prog that I am trying to compile is a ppp over ethernet prog.  It
acts as a little pipe to connect the usual pppd to the eth0.  I need it
because my ADSL provider (Bell Sympatico) is switching to this method in
a few days.

The source code is a few hundred lines of C.  I will provide it to
anyone who would like to compile it themselves.  Or you can get it from
http://ftp.davin.ottawa.on.ca/linux/sympatico/.  Unfortunately its
totally undocumented and uncommented.  But, if you stick a little printf
early in the program, and then see if it prints when you run it, that
will determine if it is getting past this problem. If someone can
produce a working binary out of it, that would solve my problem, at
least for now.

In the longer term, I'm toying with the idea of adding PPPOE to the PPP
daemon.  This little prog is supposed to be really inefficient.  If
anyone is interested let me know.  I'm a lazy, lazy man and would rather
not have to do it myself.