Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of FrequentlyAskedQuestions

Timestamp:

01/10/11 11:39:41 (10 years ago)

Author:

salcock

Comment:

Explain the latest threading issue

FrequentlyAskedQuestions

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 === I get a lot of errors stating "ERROR: No debug map or DWARF data was found to link." when building on Mac OS X! ===
 This appears to be a bug in the dwarfutils - try upgrading Xcode to version 2.5 or later.
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+=== When using libtrace 3.0.7 or 3.0.8, I get a segmentation fault whenever I try to read a trace file! ===
+There appears to be a nasty threading bug that can crop up when libtrace is built with gcc 4.4.1 (which is the packaged version on many Ubuntu systems). 
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+ * The best possible fix (until libtrace 3.0.9 is released) is to make the change described in r1681 and re-build libtrace. Obviously this will involve editing the libtrace source code but will fix the problem without impacting on performance.
+ * An alternative is to disable threaded IO by running 'export LIBTRACEIO=nothreads' in the terminal which you are using to run the failing libtrace program. This will disable threaded IO, which will make the trace processing slower.
+ * You could also disable optimisations by adding 'CFLAGS="-g -O0"' when running ./configure - this will mean that you can still use threaded IO but the entirety of libtrace will be unoptimised. 
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