Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:42:08 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubles with devel/icu on ia64 Message-ID: <F6C995F9-D2F1-4F1F-A1B7-5F7BCA558352@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200609221334.44167.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200609220016.07881@aldan> <5BAD2431-B9F5-42E6-BAA6-18FB5AF1CBAE@mac.com> <200609221334.44167.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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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
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