ports/119352: graphics/ilmbase configure tests for shared semaphores but uses non-shared sems

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 21 13:12:54 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 20 January 2010 9:27:25 pm Stephen Hurd wrote:
> > > > Can anyone verify if graphics/ilmbase configure fails to find working 
> > > > semaphores on 7.x?
> > >
> > > checking whether to use POSIX unnamed semaphores... Bad system call
> > > (core dumped                     
> > > )
> > > no (pshared not usable)
> > > 
> > > x1# uname -a
> > > FreeBSD x1.lerwick.hopto.org 7.2-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #2:
> > > Mon Dec 28 01:06:37 GMT 2009
> > > root at x1.lerwick.hopto.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_WITH_RDR  sparc64
> > 
> > 7.x has them enabled by default in GENERIC whereas 7.2 does not.
> 
> So, the patch is still needed, but not for much longer?

Maybe the patch can be made conditional on the OS version?  I think we already 
have that sort of behavior in other ports.

-- 
John Baldwin


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