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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:03:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
cc: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>,
        Joseph Lee <nugundam@best.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: linking against libc_r
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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 :)
> 
One thing though, in order for WINE to work with threads, you must get
glibc. It won't work otherwise any differently than it will for FreeBSD.
Also, the linux emulation must be updated to support USER_LDT's.

Kenneth Culver


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