tcl port and thread anabling
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Jan 11 11:00:41 PST 2012
Returning the conversation to the list:
On Jan 11, 2012, at 12:23, Stephen Langer wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jan 11, 2012, at 11:02, Stephen Langer wrote:
>>
>>> I realize that this will be hard to do and it's completely unrealistic to expect it, but it would solve a lot of problems.
>>
>> Ok, so what is a realistic solution to the problem, then?
>
> I don't know. Have separate ports for the threaded, unthreaded, and OpenMP versions of everything, so that everybody can pick the versions they want?
Which is what I said: subports.
> This is a real problem. For example, ImageMagick uses OpenMP and vtk uses pthreads. My program would like to link to both. I can force ImageMagick to build without OpenMP by defining a no_openmp variant in a local port repository, but that's ultimately unsatisfactory, since I'd like to use OpenMP in other parts of the program.
It sounds like a complete mess and I don't know what to think about it either.
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