From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 11:58:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A62E16A4CE; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E49143D45; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:58:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) i2BJbHxT034533; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:37:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Alex Dupre In-Reply-To: <4050B731.7090401@FreeBSD.org> References: <4050B731.7090401@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rV66r8g9rW13gRH8lMCh" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1079033927.769.36.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:38:48 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: libxml2 and threads X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:58:11 -0000 --=-rV66r8g9rW13gRH8lMCh Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 14:00, Alex Dupre wrote: > Building a threaded libxml2 library breaks many ports (at least php and=20 > xfce4). Many users enable threads in libxml2 blindly and then complain=20 > that port XXX doesn't work. With the addition of the new OPTIONS feature=20 > the WITH_THREAD knob appears to every user and we are costantly (at=20 > least one or two a day, privately or on mailing list) receiving messages=20 > about such failure. Is it possible to commit a change like the following? Threads are not just for developers. Users that don't need PHP, or other non-threaded libxml2 consumers may want them. Joe >=20 > Index: libxml2/Makefile > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/textproc/libxml2/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.113 > diff -u -r1.113 Makefile > --- libxml2/Makefile 23 Feb 2004 18:37:41 -0000 1.113 > +++ libxml2/Makefile 11 Mar 2004 18:51:47 -0000 > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ > MAN1=3D xml2-config.1 xmllint.1 xmlcatalog.1 > MAN3=3D libxml.3 >=20 > -OPTIONS=3D THREADS "Enable pthread support" off \ > +OPTIONS=3D THREADS "Enable pthread support (DEVELOPERS ONLY!)" off= \ > SCHEMA "Enable XML schema support" on \ > MEM_DEBUG "Enable memory debugging (DEVELOPERS ONLY!)"=20 > off \ > XMLLINT_HIST "Enable history for xmllint" off \ >=20 > -- > Alex Dupre --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-rV66r8g9rW13gRH8lMCh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAUMBHb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgYHAJ9ZUuqg90DqSsTgCR50zsoIpPi3wwCgjTDE JugZYttfsr5y/v5t31JFL/Q= =+zsL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rV66r8g9rW13gRH8lMCh--