Re: [dev] Xorg implementations

From: hiro <23hiro_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 14:53:30 +0200

so if i'm on musl and tell gcc to link statically it should just work?
in that case i'll try and report.

On 7/3/17, sylvain.bertrand_AT_gmail.com <sylvain.bertrand_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 01:45:39PM +0200, hiro wrote:
>> I have a related question. how can i statically link X11 programs
>> nowadays? Without dlopen obviously...
>
> AFAIK, you can statically link all of them... but it was a long time ago.
>
> The real culprit for static linking is in the gnu glibc: pthread_cancel
> _does_
> dlopen libgcc_s for "stack unwinding code" (just kill the stack, why unwind
> it??). This is how you can bootstrap a system build with a glibc which does
> not
> require an existing libgcc_s which depends itself on the libc (it breaks
> the
> circular dep). But gcc is doomed anyway as it goes c++.
>
> To summerize, you have any program which uses pthread_cancel, you MUST use
> libgcc_s, here dies the static libgcc distros.
>
> It seems musl lib has a pthread_cancel which does work with "libgcc_s
> dlopen
> free" static linking...
>
> --
> Sylvain
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 03 2017 - 14:53:30 CEST