On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I've volunteered to do this port, with the expectation that it's within my > ability. I'm just a bit over my head, but that's how I'll learn, right? > > I've gotten the -current version to build and install, but I've found 2 > problems so far: gkrellm loads and cannot resolve the symbol _flockfile. > Also, a build of xmms (which uses threads) fails in configure because it > cannot find pthreads support. > > I'd like to solve this myself, but I need a little push in the right > direction. Could someone give me a hint? Is it simply a matter of > undefining functions that are not present in -stable?
In -current, we modified FILE (/usr/include/stdio.h) and added (or changed) a field to use for holding a mutex that is used by flockfile (lib/libc/stdio/_flock_stub.c). We broke the ABI in order to do this, and it was very painful (just search for "the whole stdio mess" or something like that in the -current archives). You cannot do this for -stable. You're going to have to keep the hashtable method of locking FILEs. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
