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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:25:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Joseph Lee <nugundam@best.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linking against libc_r
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812211024340.6331-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812210104430.479-100000@smarter.than.nu>

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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Brian W. Buchanan wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Joseph Lee wrote:
> 
> > How do I link against libc_r instead of libc?
> > 
> > Trying to build wine from the latest sources, and the configure
> > complains about libc being non-reentrant, which is what libc_r is for,
> > from what I've read.
> 
> You need to link with -pthread to get libc_r.  I'm not sure that it will
> make the latest WINE work for you, though, as it seems that WINE has
> become increasingly Linux-specific in recent days.  (The port hasn't been
> updated since the 9/27 version, I assume because it's becoming too
> difficult a task)  If you do manage to get a fairly recent version of wine
> working, please let me know -- I've heard rumors that you can run
> StarCraft under it starting with one of the October snaps, and as soon as
> I can do that, I can newfs my Win95 partition for good. :)
> 

With the recent addition of Linuxthreads to FreeBSD it may soon be possible to use a Wine rpm to play starcraft :)

Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
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