Bill Bumgarner writes: > Now that I have an answer on the libc front (ie; 1.2 will ship with = > 5.4.7), I'm going to reboot to Linux and produce 'official' 5.4.7 = > compliant GCC 2.7.2.1 + GnuStep Threading Patches in short order. =20 > > BTW: For now, I'm using the built in MIT_POSIX_THREADS. Who is = > maintaining LinuxThreads-- it seems like a superior package and I would = > like to move to it as soon as possible... > > BUT: If I move to using LinuxThreads, gcc will DEPEND on the LinuxThreads = > package. Does that offend anyone?
This makes me nervous. What exactly are you proposing to do to gcc? Why would it have to depend on any thread package? I sent a message the other day, but it bounced because the lists were down. IMO, we should stick with MIT pthreads as included in libc5. It has been available for quite a while and is reported to work, though I don't know of any Debian packages using it. We can switch to LinuxThreads when we go to libc6. FYI, LinuxThreads is already available as a compile-time add-on for libc6, so I would expect it to be well supported. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.
