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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>
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Subject: Re: looking for 'pthreads' lib
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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Francis Vidal wrote:

> hello everyone!
> 
> can someone direct me to the location of the 'pthreads' library? i can't
> find it on the FreeBSD 2.2.2 CD. thank you very much!

pthreads aren't included with the standard system.  You need to pull down
the libc and libc_r source distributions and build a custom libc.  I just
went through this so I know the procedure.   

If you don't have access to the source tree I can check these out and tar
them up for you.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major