Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-09-14 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
Erik van Pienbroek schreef op wo 24-04-2013 om 20:13 [+0200]: > For Fedora 20 (scheduled fall 2013) I'm considering to replace the old > mingw-pthreads package with the winpthreads library and enabling C++11 > features like std::thread in gcc > We could perform this migration in two separate steps

Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-05-12 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
Erik van Pienbroek schreef op wo 24-04-2013 om 20:13 [+0200]: > For Fedora 20 (scheduled fall 2013) I'm considering to replace the old > mingw-pthreads package with the winpthreads library and enabling C++11 > features like std::thread in gcc The package review for mingw-winpthreads has just compl

Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-04-29 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
NightStrike schreef op ma 29-04-2013 om 05:27 [-1000]: > I still am baffled why this target would default the pthread linking > option to always on, even when -pthread is not specified. This seems > like an upstream gcc bug. I just did some testing with a winpthreads-based toolchain to find out

Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-04-29 Thread NightStrike
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 04/29/2013 09:17 AM, NightStrike wrote: >> Is there a runtime switch to gcc that tells it not to link in >> winpthreads? It seems kind of silly to have to link to a threading >> library when you aren't using threads. > > That is my

Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 04/29/2013 09:17 AM, NightStrike wrote: > Is there a runtime switch to gcc that tells it not to link in > winpthreads? It seems kind of silly to have to link to a threading > library when you aren't using threads. That is my only complaint as well, although the times I'll use it will only be w

Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-04-29 Thread NightStrike
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: > However there is one big downside to this. Once we tell gcc to use > winpthreads (or better said: the configure flag --enable-threads=posix) > it will cause all binaries which are built using this compiler to > automatically depend on t

Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-04-29 Thread Greg Hellings
I have one package that this might affect, but I won't know for sure how it affects it until the feature is introduced. Currently in mingw-clucene I have threading disabled on 64-bit platforms because of issues with linking it against the existing threads library. Once a new threading library is in

Re: Proposal: winpthreads support for Fedora 20

2013-04-29 Thread Erik van Pienbroek
Erik van Pienbroek schreef op wo 24-04-2013 om 20:13 [+0200]: > What are your thoughts about introducing winpthreads in Fedora and > having gcc use it by default? I personally think that Fedora 20 is a > good target for this. If it turns out that it causes too much issues > then we still have enou