Subject: Re: wine/pthread broken in netbsd 4 beta
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: C. K. <ck74@operamail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/09/2007 14:47:47
Has anyone fix for the problem? I replied to another thread sorry, but it
looks like problem exists for a long time and nobody has an advice.

Maybe someone has already fixed in his local computer and didnt update the
list.

Regards,




Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> 
> Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
>> On 2007.01.14 23:37:51 +0000, Simon Truss wrote:
>>> If you know more than the PRs are you saying that the Q3 and Q4 branches 
>>> are broken for NetBSD then? If so I will try patching an old pkgsrc/wine 
>>> into Q4 and see how far I get. Then there is something that I can 
>>> compare against to find the cause.
>>
>> I know little more about the causes than stated in the PRs.  From
>> perusing the Wine mailing lists and FreeBSD and OpenBSD chatter,
>> the problems seems to be related to both threading and the expected
>> memory layouts.
> 
> I don't think this is really the reason, or if it is, somehow we had
> things working better before. At one point I was able to get Wine
> working quite well with many apps, and that stopped. I don't think the
> threading stuff etc. explains why it broke.
> 
> Perry
> 
>> As posted to the Wine mailing list (in 2005!):
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Win32 threading is broken or semi-functional on every OS except Linux. 
>> The
>> work that needs to be done requires an extremely deep understanding of
>> the
>> threading implementation on those operating systems: only somebody with a
>> lot of expertise can do it. I would not expect this situation to improve
>> anytime soon. For now I think FreeBSD is the closest you'll get to
>> working
>> threading on BSD.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> <http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2005-February/016839.html>
> 
> 

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