As per #868369 consider enabling thread support unconditionally and remove "threads" from IUSE. Reproducible: Always
This affects: dev-tcltk/expect dev-tcltk/thread net-analyzer/sguil-client net-analyzer/sguil-sensor The two sguil packages require -threads, but at least sguil-sensor is already masked/last-rited due to severe bugs. Not sure what to do with sguil-client; probably dead as well (no upstream activity for several years).
Can I suggest the titles for some of these bugs where you're unsure be "re-evaluate USE=threads" or similar?
From Fedora's changelog for their RPM/spec file (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tcl/blob/rawhide/f/tcl.spec): """ * Fri Jun 13 2014 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad@redhat.com> - 1:8.6.1.1-5 - Re-enabled threads (previously reported bugs are no more reproducible) * Wed Apr 23 2008 Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 1:8.5.1-4 - #443246 configure with disabled threads. Threads could lead to segfaults of dependent programme. * Fri Feb 17 2006 David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com> - 8.4.12-4 - Enable threads (#181871) * Thu Jul 19 2001 Adrian Havill <havill@redhat.com> [...] - revert --enable-threads, linux is (still) not ready (yet) (bug 49251) * Sun Jul 8 2001 Adrian Havill <havill@redhat.com> [...] - reenable threads which seem to work now * Fri Jun 2 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> [...] - revert --enable-threads, linux is not ready (yet) (#11789). * Sat Mar 18 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> - configure with --enable-threads (experimental). """ And in Gentoo: """ commit 1dd8db9579a3862915cde4d3bdbf7fe862dd424a Author: Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> Date: Mon Jan 20 07:34:31 2014 +0000 dev-lang/tcl: Drop old; drop notification about threading support in favour of USE deps, #498612 Package-Manager: portage-2.2.8/cvs/Linux x86_64 Manifest-Sign-Key: 0xB9D4F231BD1558AB! commit 991debf397a9bd92c43586c7d4c1236c64e4dd3d Author: Ian Leitch <port001@gentoo.org> Date: Tue Apr 20 00:52:21 2004 +0000 Enable threads with local USE flag 'threads'. #2024 """ 1. Fascinating -- what a history! 2. Fedora do have it enabled since 2014.
Given the above, I think we should take some time to test all the Tcl packages with USE=threads (including removing those use deps) and see what happens.
The tcl configure enables threading by default, so that seems reasonable. As for the still unmasked sguil-client I've sent mail to ajak@gentoo.org asking for clarification/masking/last-riting. That should clear the way.
So it turns out that sguil-client can be used without the -sensor package by connecting the GUI to a remote host (see https://bammv.github.io/sguil/index.html). The reason why it's set to USE="-threads" is here: https://github.com/bammv/sguil/blob/62b5dd60ca03b6093043972055c1cf36c15c65e3/server/sguild#L145 Metadata says it's maintained by netmon@gentoo.org so maybe someone on that team has an opinion whether this is still useful?
