[Bug 874418] Re: linking against librt doesn't provide sem_post

[Gary Duzan]

The sem_* man pages need to be updated to reflect a "blessed" way of
linking in semaphore code now that -lrt doesn't work.

** Package changed: eglibc (Ubuntu) => manpages (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => New

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Title:
  linking against librt doesn't provide sem_post

Status in “manpages” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  We have software that uses semaphores but not pthreads. Therefore, our
  code links against librt, as documented in the sem_post man page. This
  worked fine in 10.04 and 11.04, but not in 11.10.

  > cat a.c
  #include <semaphore.h>
  int main()
  {
      sem_t *mysem;

      int ret;

      ret = sem_post(mysem);
      return 0;
  }
  > gcc -g -lrt -o a a.c
  /tmp/ccUadHKv.o: In function `main':
  a.c:8: undefined reference to `sem_post'
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: libc6-dev 2.13-20ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct 14 12:30:58 2011
  SourcePackage: eglibc
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-07 (6 days ago)

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