[Mono-devel-list] Problems compiling mini in glibc 2.3.3 (TLS)

[Paolo Molaro]

On 02/21/04 Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz wrote:
> In mono CVS, as well as in all mono daily tarballs since 02/17 I am
> getting an error with TLS while compiling mini:
[...]
> ./.libs/libmono.so: undefined reference to `___tls_get_addr'
> 
> My system:
> Linux localhost 2.6.3-rc3-gentoo #1 SMP Mon Feb 16 22:16:17 EET 2004
> i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.3/specs

It looks like the gentoo toolchain (gcc and libc combination) are
miscompiled and they don't support the use of __thread vars in shared
libraries. Please report the bug to their maintainers. In the mean time
you can workaround by compiling mono with the --without-nptl configure
option.

lupus

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