[Gllug] gtk+ or Qt? (or others?)

Walid Shaari ws at melinux.com
Sun May 12 17:54:26 UTC 2002


On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 15:57, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 03:06:04PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> 
>  > Well, there's the point that on distros that ship binaries you'd not see
>  > that at all, but that hardly explains why *more* Slackware users are
>  > doing that.
>  > 
>  > Are there many Gentoo or Sourcery or similar build-from-source distro
>  > users in that set?
> 
> Not even 1. Either those distros are too niche to make an impact yet,
> or its users know better.. *shrug*
> 
>  > > Case in point was luser who seemed to have every lib in system linked
>  > > against pthreads[1],
>  > 
>  > Probably `because that means everything will be threaded, and threads
>  > are k00l'; I wonder how many things that broke immediately due to the
>  > changed guarantees on, for example, signals or fork(), when
>  > multithreading. (IIRC, some of those guarantees apply as soon as you
>  > *might* use threads, i.e. as soon as you link against -lpthread...)
> 
> Something else I've not yet figured out, which I'm almost too scared to
> investigate, as it seems to be intentional.
> 
> (davej at noodles:davej)$ ldd /bin/ls
>     librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x4001c000)
>     libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4002d000)
>     libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4014b000)
>     /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> Yum, threaded ls. (happens on Debian, SuSE and probably other distros)
Not on Redhat though :)
[waleed at melinux waleed]$ ldd /bin/ls
	libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x40023000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40027000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> There are a lot of sick minds at work. And most of them seem to be
> writing GNU code.
> 
> -- 
> | Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
> | SuSE Labs
> 
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