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Subject: Re: [HaikuPorts-devs] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Haiku
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From: "=?utf-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Revol" <revol@free.fr>
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> >> Unresolved issues include that AIO is detected, and as a 
> > > consequence
> >
> > Then the test is buggy as we don't have AIO in Haiku that I know of 
> > :)
> 
> Hm, the so-called AIO check is rather a pthreads check:
> 
> #include <pthread.h>
> int main(void) { pthread=5Fmutex=5Ft lock;  return 0; }
> 
> If that compiles, a working -lpthread is assumed. It's buggy in 
> itself  
> because it first sets AIOLIBS=3D"", then compiles with unchanged empty  
> $AIOLIBS and then sets AIOLIBS=3D"-lpthread".
> 
> >
> >> AIOLIBS is set to -lpthread but that is not available on Haiku.
> >
> > Well we should have a pthread lib available though...
> 
> It's part of libroot.so, I thought, and thus referenced without extra  
> linker arguments.

Not sure we really want to keep it that way in Haiku then...

> > Another big issue that I mentionned earlier here is the widely used
> > assumption that error codes are positive, which is not the case for
> > BeOS and Haiku.
> > Not fixing this will result in a dangerous binary.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder. But that also reminds me, you wanted to  
> supply a patch for that! :)

You can always beat me to it.

Fran=C3=A7ois.