[Iftop-users] iftop 0.16

Paul Warren pdw at ex-parrot.com
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:33:48 +0000


On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:28:28PM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:20:37PM +0000, Paul Warren wrote:
> > This email didn't make it onto the mailing list, probably due to the
> > size limit.  We're trying to persuade iftop to compile on NetBSD, which
> > like any decent UNIX has its own, uniquely broken pthread
> > implementation.  This one doesn't seem to be able to spell
> > "pthread_cancel".
> 
> hmm. From the transcript it looks like it's failing to
> link with the pthread library. The thing to do is probably
> to figure out how to compile a pthread program (like the
> test one), perhaps from the pthread(3) man page, then
> try to figure out why configure isn't figuring it out. Are
> the NetBSD man pages online?

Hmm.  I think previously it was failing to link against loads of things,
and now it's just down to that one function, BICBW.

Paul