Well, I've tried both Samuel's (swap space) and Svante's (nocheck)
suggestions and have found that both allow me to successfully build the
glibc packages!
The problem that I've got now is that I've changed the size of the
condition variables by adding an extra field, an integer that tracks the
number of waiting threads. This means that I have to recompile anything
that depends on the size of a condition variable, which is potentially
everything on the system.
First, I'd like to build the packages using the same scripts used to build
the Debian distribution packages. Is this available somewhere?
Next, how will modifying the memory layout of condition variables affect
our packaging? I figure that we'll have to bump libc0.3 to libc0.4, and
that should pretty much do the trick, right?
Finally, I'm wondering if we need to change this at all. The "__data"
field in struct __pthread_cond seems unused, at least in the libpthreads
directory. Is there any use for this pointer? Or can I use those bits?
Also, the Linux source code in nptl/ includes the following comment:
/* If there are waiters which have been already signalled or
broadcasted, but still are using the pthread_cond_t structure,
pthread_cond_destroy needs to wait for them. */
...which is the conclusion I've come to as well.
agape
brent
