Updated ARM NPTL patch

[Carmelo Amoroso]

On 12/7/06, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery.com> wrote:
> .... snippet.....
> KNOWN LIMITATIONS
>
> This release has some known limitations:
>
> - The merge with public uClibc trunk revision r16105 introduced
>   some test suite regressions, as described above.
>
> - When linking statically against uClibc, the dlopen function does not
>   work properly.  The unmodified uClibc trunk has this problem as
>   well, so CodeSourcery does not believe that our NPTL patches are
>   responsible; in fact, we believe dlopen works better with our
>   patches than without.
>
>   However, many uClibc tests depend on dlopen, so this issue makes it
>   difficult to test static linking.  It would be a good idea to
>   re-test if statically-linked dlopen is fixed in the future.
>
Well, I posted some days ago a proposal for a patch to fix this issue
(see post http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2007-February/017324.html).
 Did you have a look at it? I'd like to have a feedback, so if the patch
is ok also for you, it may be proposed to be included in svn.

Regards,
Carmelo