Hi Paul, > The problem is that the gnulib i18n code includes pthread.h for its > own purposes
I wouldn't call it "the gnulib i18n code". The modules 'lock', 'tls', etc. are needed by the modules 'strsignal', 'fstrcmp', and 'localename'. Basically, every piece of code that wants to provide multithreaded access to a global variable (may it be a registry or cache or anything) needs locking. > and wants primitives that our trivial pthread replacement doesn't supply. Sure, when gnulib provides a "replacement" of a system header, it should not remove features from the system headers that other parties may rely upon. > + AC_CHECK_TYPES([pthread_t, pthread_spinlock_t]) It would be wise to include <pthread.h> here. Not all systems define these types in <sys/types.h>; some (e.g. mingw pthreads-win32) require a #include <pthread.h>. This include is not part of AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT. Bruno
