Re: [bug #13800] link/dependency order issue (e.g. amd64-unknown-freebsd7.0)

[David Ayers]

Pete French wrote:
>>The real bug does indeed lie in the internal initialization process of the
>>FreeBSD libpthread library.  In this case when libobjc is not excplitly linked
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> ... this is probably the root cause of the issue I am seeing as well.
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>>I'll leave it up to the -make maintainers to decide what to do.  My current
>>tendency is to close this bug as invalid at least until someone verifies that
>>the issue exists with released versions of FreeBSD.  And even then a
>>workaround should probably  be done in libobjc (which seems to be installed by
>>FreeBSD but if libobjc needs updating you might as well update libpthread
>>instead and fix the bug properly).
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> What would the actual fix to libpthread be in this case ? I can submit
> a PR for this and try and get it fixed in FreeBSD.
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IMHO, to guard all public API functions of libpthread internally with:

        if (_thr_initial == NULL)
                _libpthread_init(NULL);

as the have already done for some of them.

Cheers,
David