From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 4 16: 6: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 119C837B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 96092 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Oct 2001 23:06:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:06:01 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: John Merryweather Cooper Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 depend on pth... Message-ID: <20011004160601.E95453@rand.tgd.net> References: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net> <20011004155841.E4193@johncoop.MSHOME> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011004155841.E4193@johncoop.MSHOME>; from "john_m_cooper@yahoo.com" on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at = 03:58:41PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ 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 > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message