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Re: libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work

* Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>:

| > Should not this noted somewhere in the README
| > (glibc/pthread requires libgcc_s at runtime)?

| probably.  feel free to submit a patch.
| -mike

Attached.


diff --git a/README b/README
index 322b4da..6c37c5b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ the default configuration.  Most of the C library will continue to work
 on older Linux kernels and many programs will not require a 2.6 kernel
 to run correctly.  However, pthreads and related functionality will not
 work at all on old kernels and we do not recommend using glibc 2.4 with
-any Linux kernel prior to 2.6.
+any Linux kernel prior to 2.6. Also note, that shared version of
+libgcc_s library must be installed for pthread to work correctly.
 
 All Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.16 are known to have some bugs that
 may cause some of the tests related to pthreads in "make check" to fail.
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