Re: [JunkMail] RE: Fixing -pthreads (Re: ports and -current)

On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:25 pm, Dan Naumov wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 23:13, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > I understand that folks want to wave their hands and say "just
> > make -pthread work and do whatever it needs to".
>
> I am one of those folks as well. As an end-user, I am not
> interested in hacking around the source of 3rd-party applications
> that use -pthread when compiling them from source myself. Not in
> the slightest. This is BAD BAD BAD for usability.

I have to admit here that I know about -pthread only what I've been 
following in this ongoing thread.

I'm an end user that's run into the recent changes in pthreads causing 
breakage in ports (well one particular port, clamav).  I was able to 
figure out how to disable pthreads and hack the port to get it 
compiled and running, but it was rather annoying.  And having 
followed questions for a few years, I can easily imagine the kind of 
traffic that this behaviour will generate.  While the notion of 
knowlegeable folks being able to link in the thread library of choice 
sounds nice, does it really make sense to break what will be expected 
behaviour?

-Mark