From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 00:38:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C014A16A4CF for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:38:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC5D43D2F for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:38:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (cpe-024-211-230-171.ec.rr.com [24.211.230.171])i7D0cmNr021114; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:38:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <411C0FD1.1080303@ec.rr.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:48:17 -0400 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040808) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will References: <411BEC66.5060602@crime.ctf.edu> In-Reply-To: <411BEC66.5060602@crime.ctf.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with Firefox Package X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:38:57 -0000 Will wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > When firefox updated to 0.93 I was unable to compile it doto a > pthread_yeild_np error, of which I was'nt able to solve so I decided to > wait for a package to become available. I saw there was one, how ever it > was missing some of its own threading libraries which didnt seem to be a > package depencdecy. It appears to use the linux thread libs, so after > installing the thread libs it just hangs does'nt say or do anything. > Does anyone have an idea what would cause a Undefined Reference to > pthread_yield_np' on compile, or could suggest a good way to debug the > packaged version of firefox I have to see what causes it to hang? Atm > I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 but because of these threading errors > on this and other packages am considering reinstalling the 4.xx branch. > In case it may be of any help below is the exact errors from trying to > compile the latest firefox port: > (this was before I installed linux threads) > I had no problem recompiling firefox on my machince, I'm running current. What command did you use? It sounds like you might have version conflicts due to not cleaning before recompiling. Try make clean && make reinstall.