From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 9 10:59:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE0737B401; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:59:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmz@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f09IxUD15229; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmz@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:59:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101091859.f09IxUD15229@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: jmz set sender to jmz@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kdesupport2 fails to compile on 4.2-STABLE ... In-Reply-To: References: <20010109104832.J49646@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> 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 -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message