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

[Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

no, unfortunately its existed since nptl came along and broke transcode and 
its ilk, which dvd::rip uses quite heavily ;)

Mark Knecht wrote:
> I'm using NTPL only on my Gentoo box and I'm failing in a similar with
> some version like 0.52.x. (Sorry - don't remember exactly which.) I
> guess this is not a failure specific to the newer version of dvdrip?
>
> 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