From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 4 15:58:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F83A37B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (drumheller-router.bmi.net [206.63.201.3] (may be forged)) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA24306; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:05:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:58:41 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Sean Chittenden Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 depend on pth... Message-ID: <20011004155841.E4193@johncoop.MSHOME> References: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net>; from sean@chittenden.org on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 14:48:49 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.0 Lines: 25 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001.10.04 14:48 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 > > -- > Sean Chittenden > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > 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. -- jmc MacroHard -- the perfection of form over substance, marketing over performance, and greed over design . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message