Attilio Fiandrotti schrieb: > Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: >> Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> i recently put my hands on an AMD64 machine, so i had the chance to >>> run the installer from a chroot and i noticed that the crash produces >>> this log >>> >>> libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work >>> (!) [ 5905: 0.000] --> Caught signal 6 (unknown origin) <-- >>> libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work >>> Aborted >>> >>> adding this library (and full libc) to the chroot prevents the crash. >> >> Good news! >> >> Is it ok to include the library or should the input driver be changed >> to not use pthread_cancel()? >> > > Last night, talking with Frans Pop and Kurt Roeckx, it turned out that > including correct libraries may be a bit complicated right now, and > possibly we could not make it in time for Etch. > So, i was asked to investigate about the possibility to remove > pthread_cancel() calls from DirectFB code: dok, do you believe that's > possible / easy to do?
Should be possible with minor effort. pthread_cancel() is evil anyways. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
