Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2006, at 19:52, Sean Bryant wrote:
>> Sean Bryant wrote:
>>> SASADA Koichi wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Sean Bryant wrote:
>>>>> Hi I decided i'd try and get the some snapshot of yarv up and running.
>>>>> It compiles with out complaining but the test fail and generator a 
>>>>> core.
>>>>>  The core says the problem is in signalcontext() in libc. But I doubt
>>>>> that's the case. That's just the last running thread. Switching to
>>>>> thread 3, the main thread it seems reveals nothing more than the 
>>>>> thread
>>>>> sleeping just as gdb reports. Any tips on debugging this?
>>>>
>>>> What's test?  "make test"?
>>>>
>>> Yes, it is 'make test'. I'm running FreeBSD-6.2-RC1 under QEMU. I 
>>> tried the same under a 6.1-STABLE install and the same thing happened.
>>
>> To update the list. Forcing a link against libthr by exporting 
>> LDFLAGS='-lthr' will no longer have yarv core on a fork.
> 
> No, no, no, no, no.
> 
> Use libmap.conf.  This is exactly what it exists for.
> 
>> It does however introduce new and interesting problems like exceeding 
>> maximum lock level and then coring on make test-all. Now I'm not sure 
>> where the problem is. I've looked and notice this a problem for 
>> several other projects as well. Probably due to the poor nature of 
>> FreeBSD's pthread implementation and libthr's incomplete 
>> implementation. Possible workarounds might include using 
>> linux-threads. Which is what mysql recommended not too long ago.
> 
> For performance only.  Now linux-threads give worse performance than 
> libthr for MySQL.
> 
> --Eric Hodel - drbrain segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
> 
> I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!
> 
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I know. It would be for compatibility only. I'm working through it now 
to get it up and running. Debugging yarv isn't that easy. I'm very new 
to the code base and i'm doing all I can to get it up and running with 
minimal code changes.

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