ok, i'm not on this list, but i saw a few responses to my post in the archives, and i'll try to answer the questions raised.
first off, as someone pointed out to me off list, we really want to be using -pthread, not -lc_r directly. the problem is more complicated though if we want to truely be portable about it. check out what the apr project uses for finding how to link against pthreads libs and you'll see what i mean. it's annoyingly complex. http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/apr/build/apr_threads.m4?rev=1.5&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup linking in libc_r on bsd will get things to compile, but you'll get some warnings (i don't know if things will actually work correctly). the warnings go away if you switch to using -pthread, but i don't have time to generate an appropriate patch for that. my autoconf-fu is just not up to it, although someone who's motivated and knows what they're doign could probably come up with a good solution by looking at the apr stuff. i'm hesitant to just stick -pthread in because then we're stuck working on linux and bsd, but breaking most other places. it would be best to do it correctly, as apr has. as for an alternative to MSG_NOSIGNAL on BSD, i can't find one in the man pages. if you want to eliminate SIGPIPE only during those send and recv's, that's easy enough, otherwise you can just use the catch all solution and turn off SIGPIPE completely. either way, the patch is trivial. (btw, if anyone else is trying to build on FreeBSD, you also have to set CPPFLAGS to -I/usr/local/include so that it can pick up the iconv headers. just that, the pthreads stuff and the MSG_NOSIGNAL stuff and it builds fine.) i don't have time to look at the number of warnings, but i think 30 or so was about what i saw. i'll try downloading the precompiled binaries from a tarball and see if anything actually works later on tonight. you guys have been doing fantastic work on this, it's amazing how far you've progressed since i last ducked my head in and took a look. -garrett -- garrett rooney Remember, any design flaw you're [EMAIL PROTECTED] sufficiently snide about becomes http://electricjellyfish.net/ a feature. -- Dan Sugalski _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
