libxml2 and threads

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:03, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:38:48 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke 
> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 14:00, Alex Dupre wrote:
> >> Building a threaded libxml2 library breaks many ports (at least php and
> >> xfce4). Many users enable threads in libxml2 blindly and then complain
> >> that port XXX doesn't work. With the addition of the new OPTIONS feature
> >> the WITH_THREAD knob appears to every user and we are costantly (at
> >> least one or two a day, privately or on mailing list) receiving messages
> >> about such failure. Is it possible to commit a change like the 
> >> following?
> >
> > Threads are not just for developers.  Users that don't need PHP, or
> > other non-threaded libxml2 consumers may want them.
> 
> How about something like this:
> 
> s/DEVELOPERS ONLY!/Warning, will not work on with some apps./g

This is too long, and will corrupt the OPTIONS menu.

> 
> Or, a new pkg-message?

That's a bit after the fact, and may be missed.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > Joe
> >
> >>
> >> Index: libxml2/Makefile
> >> ===================================================================
> >> RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/textproc/libxml2/Makefile,v
> >> retrieving revision 1.113
> >> diff -u -r1.113 Makefile
> >> --- libxml2/Makefile    23 Feb 2004 18:37:41 -0000      1.113
> >> +++ libxml2/Makefile    11 Mar 2004 18:51:47 -0000
> >> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
> >>   MAN1=          xml2-config.1 xmllint.1 xmlcatalog.1
> >>   MAN3=          libxml.3
> >>
> >> -OPTIONS=       THREADS "Enable pthread support" off \
> >> +OPTIONS=       THREADS "Enable pthread support (DEVELOPERS ONLY!)" off 
> >> \
> >>                  SCHEMA "Enable XML schema support" on \
> >>                  MEM_DEBUG "Enable memory debugging (DEVELOPERS ONLY!)"
> >> off \
> >>                  XMLLINT_HIST "Enable history for xmllint" off \
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alex Dupre
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