From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 4 16:38:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFDA037B406 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 96418 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Oct 2001 23:38:17 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:38:17 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: John Merryweather Cooper Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 depend on pth... Message-ID: <20011004163817.H95453@rand.tgd.net> References: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net> <20011004155841.E4193@johncoop.MSHOME> <20011004160601.E95453@rand.tgd.net> <20011004161906.G4193@johncoop.MSHOME> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011004161906.G4193@johncoop.MSHOME>; from "john_m_cooper@yahoo.com" on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at = 04:19:06PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > What's the possibility of having XFree86 depend on the pth > > > > > > library? I've been bitten many times by not having pth installed > > when > > > > > > > > compiling its libs. If I don't hear any reason not to I'd like to > > > > > > submit a PR and see this changed if possible. -sc > > > > > > Native "pthreads" work quite well with XFree already (and with > > Mesa). > > > Using pth would break just about every other port that uses "native" > > > pthreads. I see no benefit and much pain on such a project. > > > > Hmm.... I hate to sound nieve, but are those installed via a port? If > > so, which one? I was doing an upgrade of cvsup with the GUI and I was > > getting link errors with the x libs because they weren't compiled with > > pthreads. Installing pth then recompiling xfree86-libs has fixed this > > problem in every case in the past and hasn't broken a port that I'm > > aware of (this also fixed my faces compile problem too: see PR for > > ports/mail/faces for more details). Any thoughts? -sc > > "pthreads" is built-in. Installing pth will inflict considerable pain. > It conflicts with "pthreads." For instance, have pth installed on your > system is a nearly sure-fire way to break all Mesa-dependent apps. You > have been warned . . . :) Honestly, I don't really care about mesa and regardless, it doesn't solve the problem of why XFree86 libs weren't compiling correctly. I've had this prob on most of my boxen, and most vanilla. pth has always fixed it... any thoughts on the following PR? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28551 -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message