Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:58:41 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 depend on pth... Message-ID: <20011004155841.E4193@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net>; from sean@chittenden.org on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 14:48:49 -0700 References: <20011004144849.A95453@rand.tgd.net>
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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
>
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> Sean Chittenden
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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.
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