Assertion failuers

[Ken Raeburn]

On Jul 11, 2005, at 04:59, fariba wrote:
> thank you. may be i should explain what o really want to know: why by 
> disabling the threads our problem on 2.6 went away? why using these 
> flags was suggested? is multi-threading support kind of buggy?

There have been problems on some systems in determining whether the 
pthread support has been linked into the program, and arranging for 
initialization functions to be run.  Unfortunately, unless we commit to 
always linking in the pthread library into all Kerberos applications, 
we're stuck trying some hacks that'll depend on behavior of various 
systems, outside the standard specifications -- things like weak 
references to thread support functions.

It may well be that either switching to static libraries *or* disabling 
the thread support is sufficient.  But as a simple answer, doing both 
is more likely to just make things work for now (without fixing the 
actual bug, of course).

Ken