cvs commit: ports/security/gpgme Makefile pkg-plist ports/security/gpgme/files patch-configure patch-gpgme-engine-gpgsm.c

Doug Barton DougB at DougBarton.net
Sun Dec 12 17:09:12 PST 2004


Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Saturday, 11. December 2004 20:07, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 
>>On Saturday, 11. December 2004 19:39, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>Why enable pth support?  FreeBSD shouldn't require this, and it just
>>>adds another dependency?  I had specifically disabled it for that
>>>reason.  What about making it optional?
>>
>>The pth support doesn't use pth instead of FreeBSD's native pthread libs,
>>it produces an additional library that applications/developers might want
>>to use for portability reasons. Making it optional isn't worth it IMO since
>>pth is a small package anyway (<200kb) and the option would need to default
>>to on in order to make the gpgme-package feature-complete.
> 
> 
> Update: I've talked to Marcus Brinkmann of gpgme and he tells me the pth 
> support is, to his knowledge, only used internally g10, so it should be safe 
> to turn it off at least for now. I'll make it an OPTION with default to off.
> 

This is an excellent resolution to this issue. Thanks for doing the extra
detective work.

Doug

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