On 08/04/2017 12:49 AM, William Ahern wrote: > I found it really odd that -lpthread would need to be linked in for Lua's > use of system. It seems this might be a glibc regression introduced in 2.25. > See > > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2017-January/130983.html > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2017-January/131119.html This was very helpful, thanks. I confirmed with our glibc maintainer that this is the same bug, and he agreed that we should not link the lua lib against pthreads. Please discard my patch. :) Thanks, ~tom