Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:12:29 -0500 From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@i.virtual-estates.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/17471: presence of devel/pth-devel port breaks www/mozilla Message-ID: <20000321041229.A3266@argon.blackdawn.com> In-Reply-To: <20000320183539.F47550@shale.csir.co.za>; from reg@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:35:39PM -0800 References: <200003201610.IAA55172@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000320183539.F47550@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:35:39PM -0800, Jeremy Lea wrote: > 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. Er, yes. It will also conflict in library terms under certain cicrumstances, but most often it conflicts at the header level (but since you can usually patch configure to fix the library problem, that part is more easily fixed). <pthread.h> when your port NEEDS -I/usr/local/include - that's another case. :-\ Jeremy, do you want to handle this with Ralf, or should I? -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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