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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:59:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kdesupport2 fails to compile on 4.2-STABLE ...
Message-ID:  <200101091859.f09IxUD15229@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101091252290.21326-100000@thelab.hub.org>
References:  <20010109104832.J49646@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101091252290.21326-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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>>>>> The Hermit Hacker writes:

 > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ade Lovett wrote:
 >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:19:57PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
 >> >
 >> > right now, I just want to get a make install of XFree86-4.0.2 to work :(
 >> 
 >> Personally, I'd stick with the individual ports, rather than x11/XFree86-4,
 >> which not only has pthread issues, but is also not prefix safe
 >> (installs a whole bunch of crud in /etc/X11), and installation will lead
 >> to numerous weird errors later on as packages/ports try to register
 >> their dependencies on imake-4.0.1, XFree86-libraries-4.0.1_2 etc..
 >> (after all, that's what bento is using to build the packages).
 >> 
 >> Adding a suitable BROKEN tag to x11/XFree86-4 might help speed up
 >> resolution, or at least back out the changes that caused this whole mess.

 > Can someone out there confirm that I'm not the only one hitting this
 > problem?  I'm running under the potentially mistaken assumption here that
 > Jean-Marc has/is testing his changes before committing them, and that the
 > problem is on my side ... but if others are also experiencing it, then it
 > should definitely be marked as BROKEN ...

I have tested it on 5.0 and in a chrooted 4.2-RELEASE environnement
and I can't reproduce the problem some people have with pthreads. A
temporary solution is to build XFree w/o thread support: simply remove
files/patch-xthreads 

Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9]


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