On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 jarkko.teppo@er-grp.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone else noticed any problems with current pkgsrc (a few days old)
> > > and gnome ? I installed 1.6RC1 on an Alpha and started compiling gnome-core.
> > > The compilation went without a hitch but gnome-session refuses to work,
> > > no core dumps but I don't get the gnome panel or anything else for that
> > > matter (well, the "tip of the day" works).

> I fooled around with ddd and ktrace for a while and commenting out
> --enable-hard-syscall from devel/pth/Makefile seemed to do the trick.
> Now I've got gnome and friends working just fine. Interestingly "make test"
> in devel/pth/work/pth* completes without errors with or without
> --enable-hard-syscall.

That's funny, because "make test" fails on the ports where
"--enable-syscall-hard" actually works.

> This is on Alphastation 500/500 (21164) and 1.6RC1.

So "--enable-syscall-hard" is broken on Alpha. Please file a PR.

Frederick