On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:51:04PM +0000, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	pkgsrc
> Committed By:	he
> Date:		Sun Sep 19 19:51:04 UTC 2004
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/lang/tcl: Makefile
> 
> Log Message:
> Disable threads usage by tcl on NetBSD-1.6* (tested) and NetBSD-1.5*
> (by extension).  Evidence suggests there is (at best) a bad interaction
> between pth and the thread memory allocator inside tcl, as witnessed by
> the tcl-scotty's package failure to install if threads is enabled on
> 1.6.2_STABLE/i386.  Interestingly, the version with native threads on
> 2.0_BETA/alpha works just nicely.
 
Are you sure there is no additional fallout in some of the packages which
use tcl?  The last time tcl was touched during a freeze (threads turned
on), a number of packages broke.  I think those have all been fixed to
do the right thing, but I'm not sure.

-Dan

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