Re: [Plib-devel] Patches for FreeBSD

[Martin S. <Mar...@un...>]

Bert Driehuis wrote:

> And here too, each change has to be evaluated individually. You cannot 
> make an omelet without breaking eggs, but even simple changes like the 
> "#include <netinet/in.h>" one will have to be announced on the list so 
> that people can be prepared for potential breakage, or have the chance 
> to recommend against the change.

I agree. With this background one could start with committing the
patches against src/js/jsBSD.cxx and src/sl/slPortability.h because
these obviously don't touch anything else.

I just realize that the patch against src/net/netMessage.h is obsolete,
it's just a duplicate, forget about that (I wonder why I didn't realize
earlier), the patch against src/net/netSocket.cxx could be en "#ifdef
__FreeBSD__"'d in a similar way as already present in netMessage.h line
50.

> glIsValidContext() fails when there is a mismatch in the pthread 
> implementation between different libraries used by Plib. By commenting 
> out this call, the application will start up even if conflicting pthread 
> libraries are being used.

To my understanding (as far as I remember the Changelog) the issue of
different thread libraries has been resolved with FreeBSD-5.3
As I already mentioned, I'll try next year.

> In the case of FlightGear on FreeBSD, all of plib, simgear and 
> flightgear _must_ be built with the -pthread flag. I've not come round 
> to building the whole thing recently so I don't know how things are 
> currently (last time I tried, I gave up after some code in Flightgear 
> wouldn't build on FreeBSD 5.3, but I will try again soon).

Some FlightGear people were so kind to commit several patches to
Sim/FlightGear recently, current CVS builds right out of the box if you
have a working OpenAL and PLIB (I typically use OpenAL from the FreeBSD
ports and PLIB from CVS).

Cheers,
	Martin.
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