Re: pthreads and libc version for debian 1.1
david@elo.ods.com (David Engel) writes:
> > The MIT pthread library 1.60 beta2 seems to work. It passed most of tests
> > in the MIT pthread package. The pthread libraries are not installed by
[...]
> Would someone like to test the pthread library that is built? You'll
> need to get the libc5 source and recompile the entire package
> yourself. If libpthread proves to work, I'll include it in either the
> next libc5 package or a separate libpthread package.
We've been using pthreads in the lab for a while, but we had to get
1.60 beta 4 (I think there's an even newer one now) because beta 2
still had a number of bugs that made it unusable. It'd be really nice
to have the library included in Debian's libc (or as a separate
package). Maintaining a separate version of pthreads on top of
Debian's libc5's been a pain.
Note that we may need a separate pthreads package since pthreads
includes wrappers for gcc/g++ to make sure you compile with the right
headers and libraries. Or perhaps that wouldn't be an issue if
Debian's libc were already compiled with the support. I'm not sure.
--
Rob
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