Just noticed that there *is* another POSIX threads package for NetBSD...
GNU Pth - The GNU Portable Threads.  I'm trying to build that on my machine
now...  Not sure how I'll get the NetBSD Spruce package installer to
recognize that it's there...

NetBSD package guys... any ideas?

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-pkg-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-pkg-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Robert D. Mohr
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:41 AM
> To: fejj@stampede.org
> Cc: spruce-list@lists.sourceforge.net; tech-pkg@netbsd.org
> Subject: RE: [Spruce-list] FreeBSD compile problem - possible solution
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> This may work for FreeBSDers, however the LinuxThreads port isn't
> currently
> available for NetBSD.  In addition, neither of the thread packages
> (mit-pthreads, unproven-pthreads) which are available in the
> NetBSD package
> collection have been ported to my platform (mips: pmax).  The MIT
> package is
> currently available for alpha, arm32, i386, sparc, and m68k.  The
> other just
> supports i386, arm32 and m68k.  Obviously not your problem, however I just
> wanted to let you know that the possible solution you mentioned isn't
> workable for NetBSDers.
>
> Rob Mohr
>
> (P.S.  NetBSD package maintainers...  if I am incorrect, please
> let me know)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: spruce-list-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:spruce-list-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jeffrey
> > Stedfast
> > Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 2:49 PM
> > To: Matt Payton
> > Cc: spruce-list@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Spruce-list] FreeBSD compile problem - possible solution
> >
> >
> >
> > It seems that BSD users might need to install the LinuxThreads
> > port in order
> > to successfully build/run Spruce as it currently is.
> >
> > I recognize that this is a "hassle" and that I should find a
> better way to
> > handle this in the future. If anyone has experience programming on BSD
> > systems using posix threads, I would greatly appreciate a fix
> > whether it be
> > a configure option or, better yet, some way to autodetect which
> lib is to
> > be used and any source modifications might be needed.
> >
> > In the meanwhile, I will add that requirement to the README file
> > for future
> > releases.
> >
> > I thank you all for reporting this problem and for using Spruce ;-)
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > --
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> >
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