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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Christer Solskogen via Libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Cc: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: libpthread.so symlink missing?
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:06:42 +0100
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* Christer Solskogen via Libc-help:

> In order for me to get cross-gcc to build I need to create a symlink
> from libpthread.so.0 to libpthread.so. Is that a bug in glibc or is
> this intended?

It is intended.  glibc 2.34 and later only have an empty libpthread.a,
to make -lpthread (and -pthread) work.  libpthread.so.0 is only needed
for running old applications that still link against it; it is pretty
much empty as well (except for symbol version information).

Thanks,
Florian