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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
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Subject: Re: Linuxthreads "port" status and a request
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> Solution to header problem
> --------------------------
> 1) copying the existing pthread.h and pthread_np.h headers to a subdirectory
> (I've proposed /usr/include/pthread/uthread -- in case the FreeBSD kernel
> threads also produces a conflict, it could use /usr/include/pthread/kthread).

Why not just rename pthread.h to linux_pthread.h and pthread_np.h to
linux_pthread_np.h ?
 
> 2) installing a new top level pthread.h that looks like:
> 
> #if defined(LINUXTHREADS) || defined(LINUXTHREAD)
> #include </usr/local/include/pthread/linuxthreads/pthread.h>

What if PREFIX was set to something other than "/usr/local" when the
person compiled the port?

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-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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