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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx>]

Note: There is a bug report here. 

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99885

If this is the same issue and someone knows something that would help
or clarify things then please add your inputs to the bug report.

Thanks,
Mark

On 8/8/05, Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
> 
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