Re: Possible rust issue on -current

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:04:37 +0200
Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> This doesn't sound like a rust problem but rather some crate is trying
> to do something nonportable while attempting to fix a portability
> issue. If it is really important to detect at run time if some code
> runs on the main thread (doubtful) you should patch the code to mark
> the main thread as such on startup with one of the available portable
> thread local storage APIs. Alternatively you can patch out the entire
> check from the offending create with a pkgsrc patch if you know for
> sure it's initialization is running on the main thread.

The upstream project created a tentative fix for this issue already.

https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/1664/commits/b1a90fd5c52ac2aff45558ff932a61892859859e

I added it to wip. The package seems to works fine for me now.
Shows a terminal window.

-Tobias