On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:50, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > Hi, > > > So far, I have to say GNOME has been pretty good for FreeBSD. We have > > been tracking fairly closely to the official releases. I'm putting the > > final touches on 2.1.2 as we speak. However, with the recent addition > > of GStreamer to GNOME 2, I have some doubts. GStreamer still does not > > work on FreeBSD. Our pthreads implementation does not allow > > applications to longjump between thread contexts. Since it looks like > > GStreamer might play an important role in GNOME 2, I thought I'd add > > some input. If this is not the correct list, please let me know. > > This looks like the correct list yeah ;) > > We (= gstreamer) know there are issues with pthread code we have. We have > been contacted by freebsd people in the past, but most of them were only > interested in trying out working code, not helping us fix the few issues > there are with the code we have. We indeed don't have access to FreeBSD > machines ourselves to test. > > I'm not quite sure what the pthread and libc situation is on freebsd, but > I've been told that freebsd doesn't use glibc by default, but can use it > for applications, and in that respect I would expect GStreamer pthread > code to work when using glibc. I'm not sure though and haven't found > anyone I know with freebsd and glibc knowledge to back that up. I actually thought of that myself last night. I'm going to try and get GStreamer working with our linuxthreads port. I'll keep you posted on my results. > Our main problem is - we don't have any testers on platforms other than > ppc and x86. We've been actively looking for them on other platforms, but > people seem somehow not inclined to test on other platforms. We're not > quite sure how to solve that issue ;) Any ideas here are welcome. I have access to UltraSparc Solaris systems, but none running a recent enough GNOME version for testing. I know this may be of little help, but I can also offer you and any other GStreamer developers access to working FreeBSD machines with GNOME 2 installed for testing. Like I said in a previous email, our GStreamer maintainer says you guys have been quite helpful, and I realize this is just volunteer work. I appreciate your comments. Joe > > Thomas > > -- > > The Dave/Dina Project : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/ > <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> > Smelled you on my hand for days > I can't wash away your scent > I'm a dog and you're a bitch > <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> > URGent, the best radio on the Internet - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.rug.ac.be/ -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus FreeBSD org http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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