FW: Flat shared libs, C++, pthreads

[Robin Getz]

I thought I would check here, incase someone has some thoughts, or pointers:

Bernd Schmidt wrote on the uclinux-dev mailing list:
>I'm trying to figure out how to make flat shared libraries work reliably 
>with C++ and pthreads (on the Blackfin).
>
>As fare as I can see, the dependency graph between shared libraries must 
>be a DAG, but we have a cyclic dependency: libgcc -> libpthread -> libc -> 
>libgcc.  I'm trying to solve this by putting all three pieces into a 
>single shared library.  To do this, I need to remove some duplication 
>between uClibc and linuxthreads; in some cases they define their own 
>non-weak versions of the same function.
>
>Any comments on this approach, and on the patch below?  (The patch is 
>against our local CVS, but we've merged from the uClinux tree relatively 
>recently).
>
>Bernd

Patch is at:
http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2005-November/035386.html

Thanks
=-Robin