[CentOS-devel] __gthrw___pthread_key_create in devtoolset-6

Am 22.05.2018 um 15:04 schrieb dacav <dacav at teknik.io>:
> 
> On 2018-05-22, dacav <dacav at teknik.io> wrote:
>> Then of course it gets problematic upon linking time
>> 
>>    objs/intel-debug/src/logd-main.o:(.rodata+0x8): undefined reference to `__gthrw___pthread_key_create(unsigned int*, void (*)(void*))'
>>    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> With a colleague we did some further investigation… and I had
> some additional understanding.
> 
> I could verify that the missing symbol is generated by an header
> file which belongs to the compiler:
> 
>    /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/root/usr/include/c++/6.3.1/x86_64-redhat-linux/bits/gthr-default.h:236:10:
>    warning: 'int __gthrw___pthread_key_create(pthread_key_t*, void (*)(void*)) throw ()' used but never defined
>    BUILDSTDERR:  __gthrw2(__gthrw_(__pthread_key_create),
> 
> The current CentOS libc, and specifically libpthread.so, does not
> provide such symbol: it is not reported in `objdump --syms`.
> 
> For what I understand, devtoolset is providing static linkage for
> the functionalities which are not available in the "regular"
> CentOS libc. That's the role of libstdc++_nonshared.a according
> to [this stackoverflow post][1]. So I also went for
> `objdump --syms /opt/rh/devtoolset-6/.../libstd++_nonshared.a`. I
> found nothing.
> 
> So, in short it would seem like I'm not linking against some
> important object code. This object file might be in the standard
> CentOS, but more likely in some devtoolset package. The weird
> part is that `-pthread` should be (in my opinion) take care of
> all this for me.
> 
> At this point I'm somewhat out of bullets :) If someone has some
> suggestion I will appreciate it. And of course I apologize for
> the spam.


There exist a backward [1] but not a forward compatibility. 
IMHO your executable must be build statically. In that sense
everything needed is provided by your executable. 


[1] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/libs/glibc/hjl/compat/

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