The following reply was made to PR pkg/32800; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dholland@eecs.harvard.edu (David Holland)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32800: wine can't create ~/.wine
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:53:38 -0400 (EDT)

 Further update (20070323):
 
 I was hoping the pthreads changes in recent current would help, but
 they don't really. PTHREAD_STACKSIZE is no longer needed, but I still
 get this:
 
  >    % wineprefixcreate
  >       :
  >    Font metrics: 100.0% done
  >    err:x11drv:process_attach XInitThreads failed, trouble ahead
  >    err:x11drv:process_attach XInitThreads failed, trouble ahead
  >    Failed to open the service control manager.
  >    err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 57e58955 flags ec835356 addr 0xe8
  >    Exit 1
  >    % 
 
 This is with wine 0.9.33 on today's current (20070323) -- note that
 current of 20070318 fails miserably.
 
  > Maybe or maybe not relatedly, the program I actually need to be able
  > to run (that legacy compiler) is now dumping core too, PTHREAD_STACKSIZE
  > or not; I don't have time to deal with it right now, but I thought I'd
  > report this much because it may constitute progress.
 
 With that, I can run the compiler, but the compiler driver goes into a
 loop calling sched_yield when it tries to find and invoke its linker.
 (Is this symptomatic of a deadlock inside libpthread?)
 
 -- 
    - David A. Holland / dholland@eecs.harvard.edu