Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Strange segfaults when linking with pthreads

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:18:35AM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> Peter Bex <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I've been observing something really strange for a while and decided to
> > finally dig a little deeper.  It appears that when I link to libpthread,
> > even if I don't use it, Chicken segfaults.
> 
> ...
> 
> > I am currently very uncertain whether this is a bug in Chicken,
> > libpthread on NetBSD, the combination of the two, or something else.
> >
> > HELP! ;)
> 
> You do remember that when you link against libpthread, you should build
> and link everything you use against libpthread too. ;)

Are you telling me I must compile all of chicken against libpthread just
because I *might* sometime link something that's built against pthreads?
What about when I want to link eggs to libraries that don't link against
pthreads (as in, most of them)?  Am I royally screwed?

Cheers,
Peter
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