Re: [Planetlab-arch] Re: PlanetLab kernel / glibc issues

[Timothy R. <tr...@in...>]

At Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:57:12 -0500, Frank Dabek <fd...@MI...> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Of course, that doesn't address the short-term issue of programs
> > hanging or crashing on PlanetLab nodes.  I assume C or C++ users can
> > statically link their binaries (I do, and it's pretty trouble-free),
> > but it's not ideal.
> >
> 
> Static linking doesn't actually help in my case. The libc that gets
> pulled in during the static link is the same "TLS" enabled libc that
> issues the unimplemented system calls. At least that is what happens
> when I build on a RH9 box... maybe building a static binary on an older
> distribution of RedHat would work? Is this what you've done with
> success?

Good point - perhaps I've just been lucky (I grew out of using
threads, and haven't yet resorted to BerkeleyDB or some of the other
packages that tickle the problem).  

 -- Mothy