Re: pbms on freebsd w/ threads

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> writes:

> Could you please detail this problem, because I'm not seeing any
> problems.  Are you linking the app correctly (with -pthread)?  Glib's
> configure is broken for FreeBSD.  I submitted patches but they seemed to
> be ignored.  See patch-ad in the devel/glib12 port.

Well, they weren't ignored (we traded a few messages
on the subject, IIRC), but no, they were never applied.
For a couple of reasons:

 1) I got confused with the FreeBSD v2 vs. FreeBSD v3;
    -lc_r vs. pthreads... etc...

 2) There were a number of issues involved, and it p

    a) libtool patches. I believe that the equivalent patches
       have gone into libtool since and if they aren't
       in GLib now, will certainly be in the next release,
       which is libtool-1.3 based.
   
    b) Some configuration tests to deal with libc_r oddities.
       These probably were OK to go in.

    c) library name issues. There are known issues with
       the way we do shared-library naming on platforms
       like FreeBSD and SunOS. Some fixes are definitely
       needed here, but getting all the tests right is
       not easy for someone like me who only has ELF-based
       platforms. (And FreeBSD is the worst part of the
       confusion because of a switch from a.out to
       ELF.)

       I understood at the time that this part of the
       patch wasn't meant to be submitted because the 
       FreeBSD policy was to invent completely new shared
       library names (!) ... (though I've heard different
       stories from different people)
   
     So, anyways the advice is to resubmit the patch in 
     small independent pieces.

 3) The patches was sent to me personally; this is a good
    way of getting them forgotten. If you don't want
    your patches to get forgotten, either upload them
    to ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/incoming/ or submit them
    to the bug tracking system. (The former, or a combination
    of the two is preferred for patches that are more
    than a couple of lines long.)

Thanks!
                                        Owen