gettext problem (was Re: desktop-file-utils port problem)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 22:54 -0700, Ade Lovett wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 07:19 , Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> >> Yes, adding --disable-threads to gettext completely fix the crash!
> >
> > Can you report this to Ade?
> 
> Honestly, I'm not sure what to do about this.  On the one hand,  
> disabling thread support in devel/gettext is an option, but I don't  
> know what ramifications that's going to cause for consumers of  
> gettext that are threaded themselves.
> 
> Right now, gettext is consumed by just over 1/3rd of all ports in the  
> tree.  This is the first report that I've seen where threads are  
> apparently causing a problem, so I'm very reluctant to just go ahead  
> and disable threads, bump PORTREVISION, and have everyone rebuild  
> (almost) everything again.

A rebuild of everything should not be required as gettext didn't force
apps to link to PTHREAD_LIBS.  Additionally, threading support is new to
0.16.1.  Previous versions did not have this, so I don't think any
existing ports will be affected.

Joe

> 
> -aDe
> 
> 
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