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Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:57:20 +0100 (MEZ)
From:      "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
To:        tjb@fnbc.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD porting -- distinguishing CPP definition?
Message-ID:  <199612091357.AA216649840@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <4306.9612091208@lia33.fnbc.co.uk> from "Tim Bissell" at Dec 9, 96 12:08:11 pm

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E-mail message from Tim Bissell contained:
> 
> Chris Csanady replied:
> 
> >You may want to take a look at section 4.2.6 of the freebsd handbook.  There
> >are also some notes in there which you might find useful, even if you are
> >not specifically producing something for the ports collection.
> 
> Typical.  My first mail to questions NOT to be eaten en-route, and with an
> embarassingly RTFM-like answer!  Thanks, Chris.  Still, I guess it means
> anyone looking for information about GNUstep in the mail archives will get
> routed to me...
> 
> I'm off to a more appropriate mailing list ... errr, anyone know which one
> it would be?  GNUstep is (or will be) a language (objective-C) some class
> and GUI libraries and some programs, conforming to the OPENSTEP standard.
> 
> I'm interested in a technical mailing list discussing problems with porting
> software to FreeBSD (e.g. availability of threads libraries, dynamic loading
> etc.)  None of the lists described in handbook292 really fit; freebsd-ports
> seems closest.

Threads: pthread API is supported natively in -current (and perhaps 2.2)
	Available as a port/package as well.

Dynloading: SunOS "standard" family of dlopen(3), dlsym(3) ...

/Marino
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Tim
> 




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