Re: [dvd::rip] ntpl, USE flags, gentoo building?

[Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jörn Reder wrote:
> Triffid Hunter wrote:
> 
> 
>>it should work ok as long as you don't have nptlonly set.
>>
>>NPTL is good, but its relatively new and not supported too well, especially 
>>by 
>>dvdrip. dvdrip uses the old linuxthreads fallback if available, and does very 
>>strange things if it can't use it.
> 
> 
> Just nitpicking for the historians... ;) dvd::rip itself has no problem
> with NPTL, it's not multi-threaded at all, it's event-driven. But in 
> particular transcode has some NPTL issues, because transcode uses 
> threads very intensely, and obviously with a lot of "black magic" which
> makes it hard for the new maintainers to make it NPTL compatible ;) 
> dvd::rip just tries to make the neccessary transcode NPTL workarounding
> more comfortable...

I have found dvd::rip to have one particular problem w/ NPTL: it is
unable to detect any of the tools it depends on when those tools are
compiled against the NPTL glibc. Is there a reason for this? (happens
regardless of the setting of Workaround NPTL)

-Chandler Carruth

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