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From:
Abe Timmerman
Date:
February 1, 2003 04:49
Subject:
Re: [perl #20606] [PATCH} openbsd hints
Message ID:
200302011348.40078.abe@ztreet.demon.nl
Op een sneeuwerige winterdag (Thursday 30 January 2003 08:43), schreef 
H.Merijn Brand:

> On Wed 29 Jan 2003 19:38, "Todd C. Miller" (via RT) 
<perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> > The following diff against the current version of hints/openbsd.sh
> > does the following:
> >
> >  1) OpenBSD still doesn't have a "real" vfork.  The version that
> >     was slated for 2.7 never happened.
> >
> >  2) OpenBSD 3.3 will have real setre?[ug]id() functions.
> >
> >  3) Add workarounds for deficiencies in the (nascent) hppa port.
> >
> >  4) Adding -lpthread to libswanted is bogus, and OpenBSD 3.3 will
> >     no longer use libc_r.  The correct way to handle threads is to
> >     simply add -pthread to the compile and link lines.  It may be
> >     safest to simply set "usenm=false" but I haven't done that here
> >     since Configure seems to do the right thing even when threading
> >     is enabled.
>
> Thanks, applied as change #18602

I have now confirmed that this patch breaks my openbsd-smokes.

I don't know what this is all about, so I can't be of any real help, other 
than trying suggestions...

Good luck,

Abe
-- 
Well, dereferencing that (as CvGV() would do) leads nowhere.  Or, as
the Ten Commandments for C Programmers quoth, "Thou shalt not follow
the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end."
                                   -- Jarkko Hietaniemi on p5p @ 2002-05-14


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