Re: wine/pthread broken in netbsd 4 beta
"C. K." <[email protected]>
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Has anyone fix for the problem? I replied to another thread sorry, but it looks like problem exists for a long time and nobody has an advice. Maybe someone has already fixed in his local computer and didnt update the list. Regards, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > Brian de Alwis <[email protected]> writes: >> On 2007.01.14 23:37:51 +0000, Simon Truss wrote: >>> If you know more than the PRs are you saying that the Q3 and Q4 branches >>> are broken for NetBSD then? If so I will try patching an old pkgsrc/wine >>> into Q4 and see how far I get. Then there is something that I can >>> compare against to find the cause. >> >> I know little more about the causes than stated in the PRs. From >> perusing the Wine mailing lists and FreeBSD and OpenBSD chatter, >> the problems seems to be related to both threading and the expected >> memory layouts. > > I don't think this is really the reason, or if it is, somehow we had > things working better before. At one point I was able to get Wine > working quite well with many apps, and that stopped. I don't think the > threading stuff etc. explains why it broke. > > Perry > >> As posted to the Wine mailing list (in 2005!): >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Win32 threading is broken or semi-functional on every OS except Linux. >> The >> work that needs to be done requires an extremely deep understanding of >> the >> threading implementation on those operating systems: only somebody with a >> lot of expertise can do it. I would not expect this situation to improve >> anytime soon. For now I think FreeBSD is the closest you'll get to >> working >> threading on BSD. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> <http://www.winehq.com/pipermail/wine-users/2005-February/016839.html> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/wine-pthread-broken-in-netbsd-4-beta-tf2971852.html#a11044010 Sent from the netbsd-help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.