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

[Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mine finds the tools fine with an nptl enabled glibc, but mine has the 
linuxthreads fallback as well, so i think its isolated to nptl-only systems

Chandler Carruth wrote:
> 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