troubles with devel/icu on ia64

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> п'ятниця 22 вересень 2006 13:29, Marcel Moolenaar  
> написав:
>>> What can possibly be wrong with FreeBSD/ia64? The library (and the
>>> tests) use threads aplenty...
>>
>> There are some threading related problems on ia64 that I've started
>> to work on before I went on vacation. Currently, libthr on -current
>> is broken due to locking problems and there are known cases where
>> threaded applications fail with a SIGSEGV when libpthread is being
>> used.
>
> Do these problems affect both FreeBSD-6 and -7? Because icu's self- 
> tests crash
> on *both*.

Yes, the problems with libpthread exist on both -stable and -current.
The problems with libthr are specific to -current. This does not mean
that libthr on -stable doesn't have problems, because there seems to
be a fundamental problem with the atomic operations.

>> I hope to be able to fix that soon and I'll make sure that devel/icu
>> will be tested.
>
> Thank you very much. I'll suspend the hair-pulling. Unless the 6.x  
> is supposed
> to work :-( Yours,

It may work on -stable with libthr. I can check it for you if you
like?

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com