ports/178505: [maintainer update] for graphics/openimageio

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

The following reply was made to PR ports/178505; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco at FreeBSD.org>
To: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/178505: [maintainer update] for graphics/openimageio
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 11:24:03 +0300

 Shane Ambler <FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz> writes:
 
 > On 12/05/2013 06:38, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
 >> Is the change to thread.h supposed to work on non-amd64 FreeBSD? Has
 >> the patch been sent upstream?
 >
 > Short - yes and yes.
 >
 > Long -
 > The patch originated with the discovery that i386 version crashed
 > using tbb. The addition of arch=i586 to cflags enabled the use of gcc
 > atomics. This was merged into the cmake files
 > (src/cmake/platform.cmake) in 1.1.6 and taken out of the port
 > makefile.
 >
 > 1.1.6 also included the removal of the freebsd condition in thread.h
 > and by Larry Gritz's choice it was replaced with a test that left gcc
 > atomics off if tbb was turned on. Disabling gcc atomics when tbb is on
 > turned out to be a performance hit and 1.1.7 replaced the freebsd
 > condition instead of removing the tbb test.
 >
 > I have submitted an issue for it (instead of a pull request) which
 > seems to be the slow way of getting a change. While 1.1.8 appeared to
 > be cli tools fixes and 1.1.9 was only docs, I don't want to drop
 > behind so updating here with the patch.
 
 Alright, thanks a lot for the clarification.