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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:27:43 -0800
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To:        Scott Hess <scott@avantgo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, developer@lists.mysql.com
Subject:   Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <20000111152743.E302@sturm.canonware.com>
In-Reply-To: <217901bf5c8a$d4c621a0$1e80000a@avantgo.com>; from scott@avantgo.com on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:23:13PM -0800
References:  <1a6101bf5bc1$4e364b20$1e80000a@avantgo.com> <200001102336.PAA31453@apollo.backplane.com> <217901bf5c8a$d4c621a0$1e80000a@avantgo.com>

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:23:13PM -0800, Scott Hess wrote:
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> >     A better solution may be to shift to FreeBSD4.0 (when it's released -
> >     wait for it to become good and stable), and then use the native
> >     linuxthreads port (/usr/ports/devel/linuxthreads) for FreeBSD.
> 
> After a number of hours hacking around with linuxthreads under 3.3-stable
> and 3.4-stable, I'm wondering if this suggestion was a joke of some sort
> that I just didn't get?  As far as I can tell, the linuxthreads source code
> contains no files newer than mid December 1997.  That would predate
> FreeBSD3.x entirely, wouldn't it?  No wonder I'm having such an awful time
> getting things compiled.
> 
> Please please please tell me that I'm REALLY missing something, here.  Is
> there newer code hidden somewhere?

The linuxthreads port switched to glibc-linuxthread-2.1.2 a couple of weeks
ago.  As mentioned by someone else (Alfred?), you *will* have problems with
linuxthreads on -stable SMP, but it may work on -stable otherwise (I
haven't tried it).

It sounds like you need to do a cvsup.

Jason


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