[Bug 241849] lang/ghc: Enable USE_PTHREAD_FOR_ITIMER

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Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000 at gmail.com> ---
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Hi again,

This issue is still present in the ghc-8.8.3 in ports. Some quick investigation
reveals that USE_PTHREAD_FOR_ITIMER is only set if THREADED_RTS is defined;
that is, when ghc is run with the `-threaded` option:

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/ec8a463d1ff948ba9b1b0fbb538f7d5a237bf44a

>From the context, Linux is the only OS where USE_PTHREAD_FOR_ITIMER depends on
THREADED_RTS also being set. This seems to be because on Linux, GHC uses some
timerfd thing.

FreeBSD, like the rest of the OS's, should always define
USE_PTHREAD_FOR_ITIMER. The patch to correct this locally is attached. I will
defer to haskell@, but would prefer this to be applied locally with a
PORTREVISION bump because of the long time it takes to update a version from
upstream.

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