Minutes of GNU/kFreeBSD IRC meeting 20050619

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:37:40PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 6) aurel32 explained that he has rebuilt 62 out of 72 packages that
>    were depending on libpthread2. The latest that have to be rebuild are:  
>      aolserver-nspostgres, avifile, erlang, firebird2, gcc-3.4, gnumail,
>      gworkspace, libsdl-erlang, rate-engine, wackamole
>    They currently fails to build from source, so some more work has to be
>    done to get them built.

On IRC I gave a pair of clues that I think are important, so I post them here.

On firebird (although aurel32 said this doesn't happen anymore):

22:01 < nyu> uhm.. for firebird it was a SysV IPC thing.  i fixed a number of SysV bugs in firebird, but this one was really 
             strange
22:01 < nyu> I recall there was a test failure condition that depended on how many times the test was done
[...]
22:02 < nyu> it altered a sysctl variable or something iirc

On gworkspace:

22:01 < aurel32> for gworkspace and gnumail, there was something strange, a file which segfault when executed
[...]
22:02 < nyu> uhm
22:02 < nyu> probably the gnustep heisenbug
22:02 < nyu> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/glibc-bsd-devel/2004-December/000344.html
[...]
22:03 < nyu> IIRC when i first built gworkspace i did this workaround (without altering the package source)

> 7) We currently only have gcc-3.3 and gcc-4.0 and so we are now unable
>    to follow the C++ ABI transition when it start. We need to work on
>    gcc-4.0 as soon as possible. gcc-4.0 should work on GNU/kFreeBSD,
>    except for boehm-gc.
>    If gcc-4.0 is not available at that time, we will need to stop the
>    build daemons, or stop them building C++ stuff.

I'm giving it a try after disabling java (which depends on boehm-gc), but i'm
using friki and it may take a while.

-- 
Robert Millan