Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:02:31 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@cvsup.no.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Errors with linuxthreads port Message-ID: <20071107140231.3aef7e25@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20071107.013810.74728637.Tor.Egge@cvsup.no.freebsd.org> References: <20071107104536.70d2c569@meijome.net> <20071107.013810.74728637.Tor.Egge@cvsup.no.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:38:10 +0000 (UTC)
Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@cvsup.no.freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hello :) ,
> >
> > i'm trying to install linuxthreads as part of a requirement for audio/grip, under 7.0-BETA2. It builds ok and installs ok , but when trying to build the package, it seems there is a file listed in the spec that is not included in the port. see below
>
> You've probably got NO_PROFILE defined in /etc/make.conf, triggering a
> bug in the package list.
i do indeed :) I didnt know this could cause problems. thanks! :)
>
> >
> > now, that's easily to work around - i just wont build a package for it for now. but then, other ports expect linuxthreads to install lthread.3 (audio/gogo in particular)
>
> That depend line hasn't been updated since GCC 4 was imported, and still
> assumes that the linuxthreads library was compiled with GCC 3.
>
> > is this an issue with linuxthreads, gogo or maybe something I'm doing wrong?
>
> The audio/gogo port lacks a maintainer.
>
> The linuxthreads port is mostly a bandaid for threading on FreeBSD 4. The
> native thread libraries should be used on newer FreeBSD versions.
>
> Only minor changes are needed to make the audio/gogo port compile with native
> threads.
thanks - i'll try the patch and report back.
cheers,
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