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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:10:32 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [BUG] eglibc and Kodi Krypton
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Hello,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:02:07 +0200, Stanislav Vlasic wrote:

> Kodi Krypton causes random crashes when using eglibc (2.18 or 2.19, 
> doesnt matter - from 2016.05).
> 
> GDB output:
> (gdb) kodi.bin: pthread_mutex_lock.c:347: __pthread_mutex_lock_full: 
> Assertion `(-(e)) != 35 || (kind != PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK_NP && kind 
> != PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE_NP)' failed.
> 
> I rebuilt with glibc 2.23 which fixed issue. Platform is aarch64, custom 
> 3.14 kernel (Amlogic), not sure if same happens with armel and armhf 
> (did not test it).

We no longer support eglibc in Buildroot, and therefore only support
glibc 2.22 and 2.23 in the upcoming 2016.08 release, and 2.22/2.23/2.24
in the next 2016.11 release.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com