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+From girgen@elbas.partitur.se Fri Jul  2 10:46:50 1999
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+To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
+Cc: billf@freebsd.org
+Subject: htdig's db shall compile with -pthreads
+X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2
+
+>Number:         12488
+>Category:       ports
+>Synopsis:       textproc/htdig compiles with -lc_r, should be -pthreads
+>Confidential:   no
+>Severity:       non-critical
+>Priority:       low
+>Responsible:    billf
+>State:          open
+>Quarter:        
+>Keywords:       
+>Date-Required:  
+>Class:          change-request
+>Submitter-Id:   current-users
+>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul  2 10:50:00 PDT 1999
+>Closed-Date:    
+>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul  2 11:03:28 PDT 1999
+>Originator:     Palle Girgensohn
+>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
+>Organization:
+Partitur
+>Environment:
+FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 - ELF
+	
+
+>Description:
+the version of Berkeley DB (from www.sleepycat.com, I think), that
+comes with the htdig source, shall be compiled with -pthreads, at
+least on ELF (didn't check aout).
+
+	
+
+>How-To-Repeat:
+cd /usr/ports/textproc/htdig && make
+	
+
+>Fix:
+Put this this patch in the patches dir as patch-ab:
+
+--- ../../../htdig.orig/work/htdig-3.1.1/db/dist/configure.in	Wed Feb 17 06:03:41 1999
++++ db/dist/configure.in	Wed Feb 24 14:59:30 1999
+@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@
+ dnl libraries for threaded applications
+ case "$host_os" in
+ freebsd*) CPPFLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE $CPPFLAGS"
+-	  LIBS="-lc_r";;
++	  LIBS="-pthread";;
+ irix*)    CPPFLAGS="-D_SGI_MP_SOURCE $CPPFLAGS";;
+ osf*)	  CPPFLAGS="-D_REENTRANT $CPPFLAGS";;
+ solaris*) CPPFLAGS="-D_REENTRANT $CPPFLAGS"
+--- ../../../htdig.orig/work/htdig-3.1.1/db/dist/configure	Wed Feb 17 06:03:41 1999
++++ db/dist/configure	Wed Feb 24 14:41:19 1999
+@@ -3056,7 +3056,7 @@
+ 
+ case "$host_os" in
+ freebsd*) CPPFLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE $CPPFLAGS"
+-	  LIBS="-lc_r";;
++	  LIBS="-pthread";;
+ irix*)    CPPFLAGS="-D_SGI_MP_SOURCE $CPPFLAGS";;
+ osf*)	  CPPFLAGS="-D_REENTRANT $CPPFLAGS";;
+ solaris*) CPPFLAGS="-D_REENTRANT $CPPFLAGS"
+
+>Release-Note:
+>Audit-Trail:
+Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->billf 
+Responsible-Changed-By: billf 
+Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jul 2 11:03:17 PDT 1999 
+Responsible-Changed-Why:  
+My port, my PR. 
+>Unformatted:
+