Audio questions

[Matt Rogers]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 15:23:07 Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Tom Albers wrote:
> > > > - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284171 (short version:
> > > > lazy symbol resolving in glibc is not threadsafe and can deadlock)
> > > > This bug can cause spurious deadlocks. If at all possible I'd like to
> > > > see us requiring this
> > > > glibc version (the fix was posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 so perhaps
> > > > there's a bit of dreaming involved on my side...)
> > >
> > > Anyone who can comment on this?
> >
> > The debian-team thinks we should not 'depend' on it, only make a note in
> > the requirements as in 'because of bug 897 we advise glibc version',
> > where 897 is the bugreport from glibc. I suggest we do so.
>
> Sounds good, perhaps we should, in addition, put a workaround inside
> phonon-xine and setenv("LD_BIND_NOW", "1", 1) if compiling against an older
> glibc? But probably I should ask this on a technical list?

Yes, please ask on kde-core-devel or something like that. We need to make sure 
it's ok for everybody else too.
--
Matt