linking to libpthread and libc at the same time, perl-0.5.8

2002-09-29 Thread Glenn McGrath
neal and myself have be trying to compile perl-0.5.8 against his pthreads, miniperl had been segfaulting doe to a linker problem, apparently a dummy initialisation function was being linked to from libc instead of the real one from libpthreads. It appears this problem is partly because perl speci

Re: Using a multithreaded library

2002-09-29 Thread Roland McGrath
My plan is not try to have an integrated working pthreads without punting the fixed stacks approach and requiring %gs setup. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Using a multithreaded library

2002-09-29 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Julien PUYDT has brought this interesting scenario to my attention. He also wrote the supplied test program. It is possible that a program can end up using pthreads without actually linking to them directly. For instance, programs which use dlopen and family to load DSOs may not be multithreaded

Re: isofs -> iso9660fs

2002-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:42:40PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > OK by me, but would you let us know when and how this will get into the > official archive. It will get into CVS immediately, I don't know what else is official. If you mean the Debian package, then that will have this change whene

Re: float format, pointer arg

2002-09-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20020929T194615+0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Ouch. Is there a replacement for the `a' modifier with %s that we can use, > that has the same functionality as the GNU extension? Not as far as I can tell. It seems that GNU needs to come up with a new extension (a rename of the a modifier).

Re: float format, pointer arg

2002-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:32:50PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20020929T165449+0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > ../../hurd/nfsd/fsys.c:75: warning: float format, pointer arg (arg 4) > > > > The code seems correct. > > It's not correct C99. See Debian bug ##155835. Ouch. Is ther

Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0

2002-09-29 Thread Richard Kreuter
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:00:17PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > I might have been able to get something working within 720kB, but i > couldnt manage to format one of my 1.4MB floppies to 720kB. If you mke2fs the floppy on GNU/Hurd, it'll be formatted for 720KB. Are you using either gnumach 1.

Re: float format, pointer arg

2002-09-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20020929T165449+0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > ../../hurd/nfsd/fsys.c:75: warning: float format, pointer arg (arg 4) > > The code seems correct. It's not correct C99. See Debian bug ##155835. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, LuK (BSc)* http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

float format, pointer arg

2002-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, can someone shed light on this (nfsd/fsys.c, line 75): char *name; int index; nitems = fscanf (index_file, "%d %as\n", &index, &name); gcc -O -std=gnu99 -Wall -g -O3 -I. -I../../hurd/nfsd -I.. -I../../hurd -I../include -I../../hurd/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_IO_MTSAFE_IO -D_FILE_OFFS

Bug#116317: Assertion failure in ext2fs/libports

2002-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:08:43PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I just got this crash: > > > > ext2fs.static: ../../libports/port-ref.c:31: ports_port_ref: > > Assertion 'pi->refcnt || pi->weakrefcnt' failed. > > > > It seems it's not reproducible. > > If you ever do manage to reproduce it,

Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST) > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk. > > > > Yes, i will keep you informed. > > I might have been able to get something working wi

Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Charles
Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk. Phil. On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Im playing around trying to make some boot floppies using the gnumach > kernel from my recent install. > > I have the grub stuff, /boot/gnumach.gz, /hurd/ext2fs.static.gz, > /li

Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0

2002-09-29 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST) Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk. > Yes, i will keep you informed. I might have been able to get something working within 720kB, but i couldnt manage to format one of my 1.4M

Re: isofs -> iso9660fs

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Charles
OK by me, but would you let us know when and how this will get into the official archive. Phil. On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > unless somebody has strong objections, I would like to check in the > following change. This is to make the name clearer, and to help new users