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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:06:43 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Bradley T Hughes <bhughes@trolltech.com>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, freebsd-xfree86@lists.csociety.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP:  XFree86 4.2.0 going back in the tree
Message-ID:  <20020318170643.GM53073@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203181800.01715.bhughes@trolltech.com>
References:  <20020315150609.GV53073@squall.waterspout.com> <200203180922.35707.bhughes@trolltech.com> <20020318155956.GD53073@squall.waterspout.com> <200203181800.01715.bhughes@trolltech.com>

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:00:01PM +0100, Bradley T Hughes wrote:
> Threads have been enabled for libGL since XFree86 4.0 if I recall 
> correctly.  I know you used a workaround in the qt2 port to get it to link 
> with libGL correctly.  It's very annoying, but can be fixed with one 
> simple #define.

I know when it was enabled.  I did a workaround.  But this does
not answer my question: WHY?

> As far as BIC issues, The only thing that it really changes is libGL no 
> longer uses pthread functions for storing thread specific data.

So if somebody upgrades XFree86-4-libraries without upgrading
their apps, their apps won't break?

-- 
wca

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