Subject: Re: pth & pth-syscall
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/12/2002 23:21:45
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:37:51AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>   | On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, David Brownlee wrote:
>   |
>   | > 	Just curious- do we have any idea of a timescale for switching
>   | > 	pth across to pth-syscall (I'm assuming the plan is to merge
>   | > 	pth-syscall back into pth?).
>   | >
>   | > 	Just about everything pth using I've tried has worked fine with
>   | > 	pth-syscall. Personally I'd support cutting across now :)
>   |
>   | "xmms" had to be recompiled (otherwise it hung). The include changes,
>   | so it's technically an API change, and would require bumping the
>   | DEPENDS in buildlink.mk and other places. I believe it would end up
>   | being a fairly extensive churn.
>
> Does it?  I didn't recompile xmms (between a "pkg replace") and it
> worked OK for me.

It worked at first for me, too, but after a while, it hung up and
grabbed my Xserver while I was resizing the window. I haven't had any
problems since rebuilding it.

Frederick