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Date:      Tue, 04 Sep 2001 13:03:14 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marco Alberoni <m.alberoni@nettuno.it>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: evolution-0.10_1
Message-ID:  <3B94A6E2.92E24A20@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3B949B8E.1020401@nettuno.it>

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Marco Alberoni wrote:

> Do you have any idea why Evolution doesn't work on FreeBSD?

Short answer is: because some of the core components (gnomevfs is the
main suspect) contain Linux-specific code which isn't very portable
and doesn't work properly on FreeBSD. Probably something wrong with
milti-threading, that significantly differs between Linux and FreeBSD.
Unfortunately GNOME folks don't care much abut that, while FreeBSD
GNOME team lacks developers with knowelege in this area who would be
capable to track down and fix that problem(s).

Of course, you (or anybody else) is welcome to debug the problem and
submit their patches to the GNOME team for integration.

-Maxim


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