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

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