Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:19:06 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 depend on pth... Message-ID: <20011004161906.G4193@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <20011004160601.E95453@rand.tgd.net>; from sean@chittenden.org on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 16:06:01 -0700 References: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net> <20011004155841.E4193@johncoop.MSHOME> <20011004160601.E95453@rand.tgd.net>
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On 2001.10.04 16:06 Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > > What's the possibility of having XFree86 depend on the pth
>
> > > library? I've been bitten many times by not having pth installed
> when
> > >
> > > compiling its libs. If I don't hear any reason not to I'd like to
>
> > > submit a PR and see this changed if possible. -sc
> >
> > Native "pthreads" work quite well with XFree already (and with
> Mesa).
> > Using pth would break just about every other port that uses "native"
> > pthreads. I see no benefit and much pain on such a project.
>
> Hmm.... I hate to sound nieve, but are those installed via a port? If
> so, which one? I was doing an upgrade of cvsup with the GUI and I was
> getting link errors with the x libs because they weren't compiled with
> pthreads. Installing pth then recompiling xfree86-libs has fixed this
> problem in every case in the past and hasn't broken a port that I'm
> aware of (this also fixed my faces compile problem too: see PR for
> ports/mail/faces for more details). Any thoughts? -sc
>
> --
> Sean Chittenden
>
"pthreads" is built-in. Installing pth will inflict considerable pain.
It conflicts with "pthreads." For instance, have pth installed on your
system is a nearly sure-fire way to break all Mesa-dependent apps. You
have been warned . . . :)
--
jmc
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substance, marketing over
performance, and greed over
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