From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 4 16:19:13 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 6942437B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:19:10 -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 XAA24838; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:26:07 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:19:06 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Sean Chittenden Cc: John Merryweather Cooper , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 depend on pth... Message-ID: <20011004161906.G4193@johncoop.MSHOME> References: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net> <20011004155841.E4193@johncoop.MSHOME> <20011004160601.E95453@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20011004160601.E95453@rand.tgd.net>; from sean@chittenden.org on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 16:06:01 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.0 Lines: 40 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 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 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