Package: eggdrop
Followup-For: Bug #487541
tag 487541 patch
thanks
Postings on the egghelp.org forums indicate that eggdrop's hanging in
background mode is caused by being compiled without Tcl thread support
while still being linked against a thread-enabled libtcl:
http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?p=58877 (ignore the final two
postings on the thread, they're unrelated)
http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=15805
To make things worse, eggdrop's auto-detection of the installed libtcl's
thread support seems to be broken (in design). See above as well as the
following 2002 posting on the eggdrop developer mailing list:
http://www.eggheads.org/pipermail/eggdev/2002-May/023002.html
And, indeed, when _forcing_ eggdrop to build with Tcl thread support
using the attached patch, eggdrop 1.6.19 works correctly.
diff -ruN eggdrop-1.6.19/configure eggdrop-1.6.19-threads/configure
--- eggdrop-1.6.19/configure 2008-04-19 04:21:20.000000000 +0000
+++ eggdrop-1.6.19-threads/configure 2008-08-03 19:25:20.000000000 +0000
@@ -10034,7 +10034,6 @@
fi
- if test "$egg_cv_var_tcl_threaded" = "yes"; then
if test "$enable_tcl_threads" = "no"; then
cat << 'EOF' >&2
@@ -10056,7 +10055,6 @@
if test ! "${ac_cv_lib_pthread-x}" = "x"; then
LIBS="$ac_cv_lib_pthread $LIBS"
fi
- fi
if test "$EGG_CYGWIN" = "yes"; then
diff -ruN eggdrop-1.6.19/debian/rules eggdrop-1.6.19-threads/debian/rules
--- eggdrop-1.6.19/debian/rules 2008-08-03 18:19:59.000000000 +0000
+++ eggdrop-1.6.19-threads/debian/rules 2008-08-03 19:04:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk
+DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --enable-tcl-threads
DEB_CONFIGURE_SCRIPT_ENV :=
DEB_INSTALL_MANPAGES_eggdrop-data := doc/man1/eggdrop.1
DEB_MAKE_INSTALL_TARGET := install prefix=$(DEB_DESTDIR)/usr
