Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:35:39 -0800 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@i.virtual-estates.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/17471: presence of devel/pth-devel port breaks www/mozilla Message-ID: <20000320183539.F47550@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200003201610.IAA55172@freefall.freebsd.org>; from mi@i.virtual-estates.com on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0800 References: <200003201610.IAA55172@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Hi,
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0800, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Does this mean, the entire pth-devel will be removed -- who knows for
> what other reason one may choose to install it. Is not it better to fix
> the mozilla port to use the right thing?
The pth port is broken. It installs a library under a well known name
(libpthread) which doesn't do what people expect it too. libpthread is
the name of the Linux (and maybe other systems?) kernel threads
interface. It's impolite to reuse library names. the pth port should
install libgnuthread or something like that.
-Jeremy
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