From: George Styles <ripnetuk_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:40:04 +0100

It would seem that errno.c also contains a (non extern?) definition
for int errno. Isnt this wrong when its declared as extrern in the .h
file?

It also seems to be defined seperately in

apps/codecs/vorbis.c:int errno;
apps/tagdb/parser.c:int errno;

as well.

Changing the definition in errno.h to extern __thread int errno;
and commenting out the other 3 references seems to make it build OK :)

Any change of some help developing a patch to fix this? i think the
definitions in vobis.c and parser.c and errorno.c should not be there
at all if its defined as extern in misc.h?

Here is a compelte cvs diff of a working (well compiling at least) sim on FC4:

Index: apps/codecs/vorbis.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/rockbox/apps/codecs/vorbis.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -r1.15 vorbis.c
28c28
< int errno;

---
> //int errno;
Index: apps/tagdb/parser.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/rockbox/apps/tagdb/parser.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -r1.1 parser.c
7c7
< int errno;
---
> //int errno;
Index: firmware/common/errno.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/rockbox/firmware/common/errno.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -r1.1 errno.c
1c1
< int errno;
---
> //int errno;
Index: firmware/include/errno.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/rockbox/firmware/include/errno.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -r1.1 errno.h
7c7
< extern int errno;
---
> extern __thread int errno;
:)
g
On 10/28/05, George Styles <ripnetuk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have upgraded my Mandrake box to FC4, and can no longer compile the
> rockbox sim :(
>
> The error I get is:
>
>
> LD rockboxui
> /usr/bin/ld: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches no
> n-TLS reference in /projects/rockbox/cvs/rockbox/build/sim/librockbox.a(errno.o)
> /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [/projects/rockbox/cvs/rockbox/build/sim/rockboxui] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
>
> This seems to be because the libc on FC4 uses thread level storage for
> its errno variable, which is defined on errno.h as an extern:
>
> extern int errno;
>
> Im guessing to compile on FC4 i need to use a directive to specify
> that the external variable uses TLS. Googling suggests that the
> __thread directive is what I need, but I am not good enough with gcc /
> c to work out the precise syntax. Ive tried various combinations of
> __thread and extern, but they all give the same (or similar) errors.
>
> Any rockbox-ers know the answer? (apart from switching distro)?
>
> thanks
>
> george
>

Received on 2005-10-28