Re: [Texmacs-dev] Reccurrent bug in with TLS data in the static version

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:23:57PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Felix Breuer wrote:
> 
> >I also encountered this on ATI systems.
> >
> >Felix
> >
> >Joris van der Hoeven schrieb:
> >
> >>On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:09:47PM +0200, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> >> 
> >>
> >>>When running the static version of TeXmacs (1.0.6.11) on Ubuntu, and
> >>>when we try to use (gethostbyname), TeXmacs crashes, and we obtain :
> >>>[[
> >>>cannot handle file 'libc.so.6' with TLS data
> >>>]]
> >>>    
> >>
> >>
> >>This bug is very annoying and appears every now and then.
> >>It seems related to nvidia video cards and somehow independent
> >>>from TeXmacs...
> >>
> >>
> What you say looks really weird : lots of other libc-related
> functions in Guile (e.g., opening a file, a socket...) give us
> absolutely no problem. Thus we still don't have a convincing
> explanation for why it is especially (gethostbyname) that is
> behaving this way, and not the stream-related, nor the other
> socket/internet-related functions...

Very strange, all this. If you replace gethostbyname by something else,
or by a built-in glue routine, does that solve the problem?

Best wishes, Joris