On Tuesday 03 September 2002 2:25 pm, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 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.

I fixed "make test" for --enable-syscall-hard some time ago now.

> > This is on Alphastation 500/500 (21164) and 1.6RC1.
> 
> So "--enable-syscall-hard" is broken on Alpha. Please file a PR.

I have some fixes to pth related to FD_SETSIZE and select(2)/poll(2) which I 
hope to commit RSN. I have no idea if they will help here - I don't run Gnome 
:-P

If you'd like to test them for me just drop me an email.

Nick