Bug 479628 – dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2 USE=-threads - ../../libgit.a(run-command.o): In function `run_thread': run-command.c:(.text+0x105): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Savchenko 2013-08-03 12:35:33 UTC]

Hello,

recent git fails to build with USE="-threads":

i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=native -m32 -O2 -funswitch-loops -fpredictive-commoning -fgcse-after-reload -ftree-loop-im -fweb -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer  -mfpmath=sse -pipe -frecord-gcc-switches -Wall -o svn-fe svn-fe.o \
        -march=native -m32 -O2 -funswitch-loops -fpredictive-commoning -Wl,-O1,--as-needed -pipe ../../vcs-svn/lib.a ../../libgit.a -lz -lssl /var/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2/work/git-1.8.3.2/xdiff/lib.a  -lpcre
../../libgit.a(run-command.o): In function `run_thread':
run-command.c:(.text+0x105): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
../../libgit.a(run-command.o): In function `async_die_is_recursing':
run-command.c:(.text+0x13d): undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
run-command.c:(.text+0x155): undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
../../libgit.a(run-command.o): In function `die_async':
run-command.c:(.text+0x1a7): undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
../../libgit.a(run-command.o): In function `start_async':
run-command.c:(.text+0x120a): undefined reference to `pthread_create'
run-command.c:(.text+0x125e): undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
run-command.c:(.text+0x1272): undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
../../libgit.a(run-command.o): In function `finish_async':
run-command.c:(.text+0x141e): undefined reference to `pthread_join'
../../libgit.a(preload-index.o): In function `preload_index':
preload-index.c:(.text+0x96): undefined reference to `pthread_create'
preload-index.c:(.text+0xc7): undefined reference to `pthread_join'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

$ emerge -pqv '=dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2::gentoo'
[ebuild     U ] dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2 [1.7.8.6] USE="blksha1 curl cvs doc gpg%* iconv nls%* pcre%* perl subversion tk webdav -cgi -emacs -gnome-keyring% -gtk -highlight% (-ppcsha1) -python* {-test%} -threads -xinetd" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7%* -python2_6%" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7%* -python2_6%"

[Comment 1 Andrew Savchenko 2013-08-03 12:36:12 UTC]

Created attachment 355010 [details]
emerge --info =dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2::gentoo

[Comment 2 Andrew Savchenko 2013-08-03 12:36:35 UTC]

Created attachment 355012 [details]
environment

[Comment 3 Andrew Savchenko 2013-08-03 12:36:50 UTC]

Created attachment 355014 [details]
build.log

[Comment 4 Andrew Savchenko 2013-08-03 12:39:37 UTC]

With threads enabled git builds fine.

As you can see from the build.log, USE="-threads" seems to be broken anyway, because thread-utils.o builds anyway and a lot of code is linked with -lpthread.

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2013-10-15 19:20:03 UTC]

Fixed in 1.8.4.