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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 04:12:29 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@i.virtual-estates.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/17471: presence of devel/pth-devel port breaks www/mozilla
Message-ID:  <20000321041229.A3266@argon.blackdawn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000320183539.F47550@shale.csir.co.za>; from reg@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:35:39PM -0800
References:  <200003201610.IAA55172@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000320183539.F47550@shale.csir.co.za>

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:35:39PM -0800, Jeremy Lea wrote:
> The pth port is broken.  It installs a library under a well known name
> (libpthread) which doesn't do what people expect it too.  libpthread is
> the name of the Linux (and maybe other systems?) kernel threads
> interface.  It's impolite to reuse library names.  the pth port should
> install libgnuthread or something like that.

Er, yes. It will also conflict in library terms under certain
cicrumstances, but most often it conflicts at the header level (but since
you can usually patch configure to fix the library problem, that part is
more easily fixed). <pthread.h> when your port NEEDS -I/usr/local/include -
that's another case. :-\

Jeremy, do you want to handle this with Ralf, or should I?

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