security/gnupg installing pth-2.0.7 causing problems

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Sun Nov 8 10:17:40 UTC 2009


> > On Friday 02 October 2009 00:46:18 David Southwell wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >
> > > > On Thursday 01 October 2009 23:30:57 david at vizion2000.net wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > gnupg-2.0.13 depends on devel and installs it. This causes
> > > >
> > > > problems on
> > > >
> > > > > a
> > > > > 7.2-p3 amd64 system. A number of ports fail to build due to
> > > >
> > > > conflicts
> > > >
> > > > > between pth and the standard system thread library.
> > > > >
> > > > > For example x11-toolkits/py-qt4-gui build fails with
> > > >
> > > > pth-2.0.7 installed.
> > > >
> > > > > After deletion py-qt4-gui builds and installs correctly.
> > > >
> > > > Something wrong with your system. Noone from KDE/FreeBSD team
> > > > reports about such bugs..
> > > > For example, I have pth installed already for all my systems,
> > > > and py-qt4 always build fine.
> > > >
> > > > please show your /etc/make.conf and buildlog with errors.
> > > >
> > > > > What is the best way to deal with this when security/gnupg
> > > >
> > > > is required?
> > > >
> > > > > Would it be possible for the gnupg to detect it is on an
> > > >
> > > > amd64 system
> > > >
> > > > > and adjust its dependencies accordingly? Should the problem also be
> > > > > dealt with at source in the devel/pth port?
> > >
> > > Are you testing on a multi processor system intel quad with a generic
> > > amd64 build?
> >
> > We testing on ALL available platforms.
> 
> OK
> 
> Later today I will run some tests and post the script.
> 
> David
I dropped this task -- got too tied up elsewhere. Then some ports were updated 
and security/gnupg was rebuilt and the problem re-emerged. Can someone please 
amend the gnupg port so it does not install pth when system threads are 
available!!! pth is NOT compatible with system threads.

Thanks

David


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