From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 22 17:43:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ia64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0BA16A554; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:43:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8A743D6D; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:43:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout13/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k8MHhJBb001062; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [64.9.234.166] (user-64-9-234-166.googlewifi.com [64.9.234.166]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k8MHgxtf020275 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:43:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200609221334.44167.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200609220016.07881@aldan> <5BAD2431-B9F5-42E6-BAA6-18FB5AF1CBAE@mac.com> <200609221334.44167.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Marcel Moolenaar Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:42:08 -0700 To: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: Kris Kennaway , ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubles with devel/icu on ia64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:43:42 -0000 On Sep 22, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > =D0=BF'=D1=8F=D1=82=D0=BD=D0=B8=D1=86=D1=8F 22 =D0=B2=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=B5=D1= =81=D0=B5=D0=BD=D1=8C 2006 13:29, Marcel Moolenaar =20 > =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=B2: >>> What can possibly be wrong with FreeBSD/ia64? The library (and the >>> tests) use threads aplenty... >> >> There are some threading related problems on ia64 that I've started >> to work on before I went on vacation. Currently, libthr on -current >> is broken due to locking problems and there are known cases where >> threaded applications fail with a SIGSEGV when libpthread is being >> used. > > Do these problems affect both FreeBSD-6 and -7? Because icu's self-=20 > tests crash > on *both*. Yes, the problems with libpthread exist on both -stable and -current. The problems with libthr are specific to -current. This does not mean that libthr on -stable doesn't have problems, because there seems to be a fundamental problem with the atomic operations. >> I hope to be able to fix that soon and I'll make sure that devel/icu >> will be tested. > > Thank you very much. I'll suspend the hair-pulling. Unless the 6.x =20 > is supposed > to work :-( Yours, It may work on -stable with libthr. I can check it for you if you like? --=20 Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com