post-patch blues with db3, db4, db41

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Saturday 05 June 2004 21:16, Sean McNeil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are post-patch targets for these ports that are causing issues
> with the libraries built.  The target:
>
> post-patch:
>         @${REINPLACE_CMD} -Ee \
>                 's|-l?pthread|${PTHREAD_LIBS}|g'
> ${WRKSRC}/${CONFIGURE_SCRIPT}
>
> causes the library to be linked with libpthread.so.  This is a
> dependency that we do not want.  It will in turn cause issues with
> nss_ldap and db doesn't use any threading.  It is thread safe, but that
> doesn't mean it should be linked with pthread.

db links to a threads lib by default all by itself, the REINPLACE simply makes 
sure it's linked to the right lib.

>
> I took out that target from my build of db41 and all is well for me.
> With it in, nss_ldap ends up causing all sorts of bad things to happen
> because it uses db41 (via openldap and sasl) and it in turn pulls in
> pthread when it shouldn't.

It would seem nss_ldap needs to be fixed to be threads safe.

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