> Berkeley-DB can be told to use different types of mutexes.
> The default on Tru64 seems to be Pthread API based. Look into
> db.spec: we for instance force the use of x86/gcc-assembly
> mutexes on the usual Intel platforms to avoid Pthread API
> dependencies under FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris/x86. In
> openpkg.spec we go even further: we enforce the UNIX/fcntl
> mutex variant which is available really everywhere. I
> recommend you to try in db.spec a check for Tru64 where you
> enforce mutex="UNIX/fcntl". Check whether this works as expected...
>
> If yes, I think we should even use the following non-Tru64
> related patch:
>
> Index: db.spec
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /e/openpkg/cvs/openpkg-src/db/db.spec,v
> retrieving revision 1.44
> diff -u -d -u -d -u -d -r1.44 db.spec
> --- db.spec 26 Apr 2004 08:59:43 -0000 1.44
> +++ db.spec 28 Apr 2004 16:39:26 -0000
> @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
> mutex="no"
> case "%{l_platform -p}" in
> ix86-* ) mutex="x86/gcc-assembly" ;;
> + * ) mutex="UNIX/fcntl" ;;
> esac
> cd build_unix
> CC="%{l_cc}" \
>
Tried that patch and it seems to do the trick. If this is included then I
guess the change from:
> > http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=16152
isn't needed anymore.
Karl.
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